 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1871 - 410 pages
...vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense; the dry jest; the wise calculation of losses...politeness veiling its doubts, or hiding its reproaches. 4. "At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1873 - 400 pages
...vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest; the wise calculation of losses...; the dull but endless repetition of ' the Fulton Polly.' Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. Silence... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1874 - 396 pages
...vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest; the wise calculation of losses...a warm wish, cross my path. Silence itself was but politeniss veiling its doubts, or hiding its reproaches. 4. " At length the day arrived when the experiment... | |
 | David R. Goudie - Railroads - 1874 - 118 pages
...dull, but endless repetition of Fulton's folly. Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, a warm wish, cross my path. Silence itself was but...politeness veiling its doubts or hiding its reproaches." yet more unfortunate), the advice of " the eminent practical man," to be the judge ; that I am compelled... | |
 | John Russell Webb - 1876 - 514 pages
...to the object of this new vehicle. The language %vas Uniformly that of scorn or sneer or ridicule. hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. Silence itself...politeness, veiling its doubts or hiding its reproaches. 5. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put in operation. To me it was a most trying... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1878 - 412 pages
...vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses...politeness veiling its doubts, or hiding its reproaches. matter of personal respect ; but it was manifest that they did it with reluctance, fearing to be the... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 pages
...settled cast of incredulity on their countenances. Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, a warm wish, cross my path. Silence itself was but...politeness veiling its doubts or hiding its reproaches." 7- Fulton's biographer describes the trial : " Before the boat had made the progress of a quarter of... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1878 - 400 pages
...vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense; the dry jest; the wise calculation of losses...and expenditures; the dull but endless repetition of'the Fulton Folly.' Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - United States - 1879 - 380 pages
...of losses and expenditures, and the dull repetition of the ' Fulton folly,' seemed to have no end. Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope,...politeness, veiling its doubts or hiding its reproaches. 15. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - Law - 1879 - 822 pages
...all who referred to his wonderful achievement was that of ridicule and scorn. He was heard to remark, "Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope or a warm wish, cross my solitary path." [See 1812.] 1807. June 22d, the British ship-of-war Leopard attacked the frigate Chesapeake,... | |
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The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition of " the Fulton Folly." Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. 
