 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.  The Ohio School Journal - Page 1921846Full view - About this book
 | John Fanning Watson - New York (N.Y.) - 1832 - 244 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1838 - 604 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Boyman Boyman - Steam-navigation - 1840 - 210 pages
...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. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Middle Atlantic States - 1840 - 302 pages
...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.... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 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... | |
 | George Merriam - Reader (Elementary) - 1841 - 308 pages
...with 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 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... | |
 | Albany (N.Y.) - 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... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - New York (State) - 1842 - 652 pages
...expense, the dry jest, the wine calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition of the Fulton folly. Never did a single encouraging...length the day arrived when the experiment was to be got into operation. To me it ica» a matt trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends to... | |
 | Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 754 pages
...expense, the dry jest, the >vJMi calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition of the " Fulton folly." Never did a single encouraging...length the day arrived when the experiment was to be got into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting Ktasion. I invited many friends to go... | |
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