 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1842 - 666 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...length the day arrived when the experiment was to be got into operation. To me it iriiK a moat trying and interesting occasion. 1 invited many friends to... | |
 | Sherman Day - 1843 - 766 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...length the day arrived when the experiment was to be got into operation. To me it was a most trying and, interesting occasion. I invited many friends to... | |
 | Thomas Rolph - 1844 - 396 pages
...Folly." " 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, and hiding its reproaches." Even when the day of trial came — that day so brilliant in the scientific... | |
 | Journal - 1844 - 296 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 did a single encouraging remark, or bright hope, or a warm wish, reach my ear. " At length the day arrived when the experiment was to... | |
 | 1844 - 490 pages
...laugh rose at my expense ; the dry jest; the wise calculations 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... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...dry jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditure ; the dull but endless repetition of ' (he Fulton folly!' Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish cross my path. " At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be made. To me it was a most trying and interesting... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1846 - 440 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...length the day arrived when the experiment was to be got into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I Steamboats. 131 invited... | |
 | 432 pages
...jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditure, the dull, but endless repetition, of ' the Pulton Folly.' Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path." At length the boat was built, launched, and the first experiment of its steaming powers was to be made.... | |
 | History - 1849 - 270 pages
...often rose at my expense ; the dry jest; the wise calculations of losses and expenditures; the dull but endless repetition of the Fulton 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."... | |
 | 1849 - 274 pages
...often rose at my expense ; the ' dry jest ; the wise calculations of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition of the Fulton 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."... | |
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Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. 
