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" ... mile an hour, or be of the least utility ; and while we were putting off from the wharf, which was crowded with spectators, I heard a number of sarcastic remarks. This is the way in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. "
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Journal - Page 393
1877
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Fifty Years on the Mississippi; Or, Gould's History of River Navigation ...

Emerson W. Gould - Mississippi River - 1889 - 792 pages
...which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Having employed much time, money and zeal, in accomplishing this work, it gives...it so fully answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance on the Mississippi and Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying...
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Robert Fulton: His Life and Its Results

Robert Henry Thurston - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 220 pages
...which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. " Having employed much time, money, and zeal in accomplishing this work, it gives me, as it will you, great pleasure to see it answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi,...
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Inventors

Philip Gengembre Hubert - Inventors - 1893 - 332 pages
...which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Having employed much time, money, and zeal, in accomplishing this work, it gives me, as it will you, great pleasure to see it fully answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi,...
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The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All ..., Volume 2

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1894 - 462 pages
...which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. "Having employed much time, money and zeal, in accomplishing this work, it gives me, as it will you, great pleasure to see it fully answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi,...
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Inventors

Philip Gengembre Hubert - 1895 - 330 pages
...which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Having employed much time, money, and zeal, in accomplishing this work, it gives me, as it will you, great pleasure to see it fully answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi,...
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The Old South Leaflets

Edwin Doak Mead - United States - 1899 - 758 pages
...which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Having employed much time, money, and zeal in accomplishing this work, it gives me, as it will you, great pleasure to see it answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi,...
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The Story of the Hall of Fame, Including the Lives and Portraits of the ...

Louis Albert Banks - United States - 1902 - 426 pages
...which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Having employed much time, money and zeal in accomplishing this work, it gives me, as it will you, great pleasure to see it fully answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi,...
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Old South Leaflets

United States - 1902 - 510 pages
...which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Having employed much time, money, and zeal in accomplishing this work, it gives me, as it will you, great pleasure to see it answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi,...
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Old South Leaflets: General series

United States - 1902 - 512 pages
...which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Having employed much time, money, and zeal in accomplishing this work, it gives me, as it will you, great pleasure to see it answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi,...
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Alexander Hamilton

William Graham Sumner - Biography & Autobiography - 1904 - 508 pages
...which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. " Having employed much time, money, and zeal in accomplishing this work, it gives me, as it will you, great pleasure to see it answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi,...
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