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The Guide to Knowledge - Page 125
edited by - 1836
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Historic Tales of Olden Time: Concerning the Early Settlement and ...

John Fanning Watson - 1832 - 244 pages
...laugh 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. Silence itself was but politeness veiling its...
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The Journal of Steam Transport and Husbandry. Dec. 1833, Volume 39

1834 - 116 pages
...FnltonFolly!" " Never," says that martyr of ingratitude, " 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." Even when the day of trial came — that day so brilliant in the scientific records of the West, when...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 34

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 604 pages
...loud laugh rose at my expense, the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditure, the dull but endless repetition of 'the Fulton Folly. .' Never...remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path." In spite of this painful discouragement, the boat was completed in August 1807. To continue his own...
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Steam Navigation, Its Rise and Progress, with Authentic Tables of the Extent ...

Boyman Boyman - 1840 - 210 pages
...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...remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying...
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American Scenery: Or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic ...

Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1840 - 302 pages
...laugh rose at my expense ; the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditure ; the dull but endless repetition of " the Fulton folly." Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright iiope, or a warm wish, cross my path. " At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be made....
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Railway Locomotives and Cars, Volume 13

1841 - 412 pages
...expense, the dry jest, the wise calculations of losses and expenditures, the dull but endless repetitions of the Fulton Folly. Never did a single encouraging...path. Silence itself was but politeness veiling its remarks or hiding its reproaches. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be brought into...
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The Village Reader: Designed for the Use of Schools

George Merriam - 1841 - 308 pages
...laugh rose at my expense ; with the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditure; the dull but endless repetition of 'the Fulton Folly.' Never...remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. 4. " At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be made. To me it was a most trying and interesting...
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The Northern Light, Volume 4

1844 - 104 pages
...of losses and expenditures, the dull but endless repetitions of the Fulton Folly. Never did asingle encouraging remark, a bright hope or a warm wish cross...path. Silence itself was but politeness veiling its remarks or hiding its reproaches. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be brought into...
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America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive: By J. S. Buckingham, Volume 2

James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 594 pages
...laugh rose at my expence ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditure ; the dull, but endless repetition of ' The Fulton Folly.' Never did a single encouraging remark, or bright hope, or a warm wish cross my path. "At length the day arrived, when the experiment was to...
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America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive, Volume 1

James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 530 pages
...laugh rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditure ; the dull but endless repetition of ' The Fulton Folly.' Never did a single encouraging remark, 01 bright hope, or warm wish cross my path. " At length the day arrived when the experiment was to...
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