 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...hiding its reproaches. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited...the first successful trip. Many of them did me the favour to attend, as a matter of personal respect; but it was manifest, that they did it with reluctance,... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...hiding its reproaches. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited...the first successful trip. Many of them did me the favour to attend, as a matter of personal respect ; but it was manifest, that they did it with reluctance,... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...hiding its reproaches. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited...the first successful trip. Many of them did me the favour to attend, as a matter of personal respect ; but it was manifest that they did it with reluctance,... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - New York (N.Y.) - 1832 - 244 pages
...hiding its reproaches. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be got into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting' occasion. I...the first successful trip. Many of them did me the favour to attend as a matter of personal respect ; but it was manifest they did it with reluctance,... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1833 - 426 pages
...experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited my friends to go on board to witness the first successful...manifest that they did it with reluctance, fearing to be the partners of my mortification, and not of my triumph. I was well aware, that, in my case, there... | |
 | 1833 - 222 pages
...hiding its reproaches. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited...the first successful trip. Many of them did me the favour to attend, as a matter of personal respect ; but it was manifest that they did it with reluctance,... | |
 | John Vallance - Canals - 1833 - 80 pages
...the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. 1 invited many friends to go on board, to witness the first successful trip. Many of them did me the favour to attend as a matter of personal respect; but it was manifest that they did it with reluctance,... | |
 | 1834 - 498 pages
...hiding its reproaches. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited...the first successful trip. Many of them did me the favour to attend, as a matter of personal respect; but it was manifest that they did it with reluctance,... | |
 | 1834 - 440 pages
...hiding its reproaches. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends to go on board t6 witness the first successful trip. Many of them did me the favour to attend, as a matter of personal... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...its reproaches. At length the day arrived, when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited...manifest, that they did it with reluctance, fearing to be the partners of my mortification, and not of my triumph. I was well aware, that in my case there were... | |
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... partners of my mortification, and not of my triumph. I was well aware, that in my case there were many reasons to doubt of my own success. The machinery... 
