 | John Jacob Anderson - 1883 - 412 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 Jacob Anderson - 1885 - 556 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...endless repetition of the " Fulton Folly." Never did n single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. Silence itself was but politeness,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1888 - 316 pages
...The loud laugh rose at my expense; the dry jest, the wise calculations of losses and expenditure ; the dull but endless repetition of "the Fulton folly!"...remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish cross my path. 3. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be made. To me it was a most trying and interesting... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 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...remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish cross my path." Possibly Fulton and Fitch, like other inventors, may have exaggerated the public apathy and contempt... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 468 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...remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish cross my path." Possibly Fulton and Fitch, like other inventors, may have exaggerated the public apathy and contempt... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1890 - 350 pages
...settled cast of incredulity on their countenances. Never did a single encouraging rcmark, a bright hope, a warm wish, cross my path. Silence itself was but...politeness veiling its doubts or hiding its reproaches." * Three or four years before Watt paten toil his engine and Arkwright his spinning-frame, there was... | |
 | William Conant Church - 1890 - 704 pages
...was, he tells us, "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 ' Fulton's folly.' Never did a single encouraging remark, or bright hope, or warm wish, cross my path."... | |
 | Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States - 1894 - 400 pages
...contrivance. The language was uniformly that of scorn or of ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses...wish, cross my path. Silence itself was but politeness vailing its doubts or hiding its reproaches. 3. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 430 pages
...calculations of losses and expenditure ; the dull but endless repetition of " the Fulton folly !" Never did an encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish cross my path. At length the day arrived when the experiment 20 was to be made. To me it was a most trying and interesting... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 220 pages
...calculations of losses and expenditure; the dull but endless repetition of " the Fulton folly ! " Never did an encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish cross my path. At length the day arrived when the experiment 20 was to be made. To me it was a most trying and interesting... | |
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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. 
