 | Charles C. B. Seymour - Biography - 1858 - 606 pages
...city who believed that the boat would ever move one mile an hour, or be of the least utility ; and while we were putting off from the wharf, which was...heard a number of sarcastic remarks. This is the way in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Having employed much time,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Technology & Engineering - 1858 - 524 pages
...city, who believed that the boat would ever move one mile an hour, or be of the least utility ; and while we were putting off from the wharf, which was...heard a number of sarcastic remarks. This is the way in which ignorant men comgfiment what they call philosophers and projectors. Having employed much time,... | |
 | Frank Boott Goodrich - Discoveries in geography - 1858 - 656 pages
...persons who believed that the boat would even move one mile an hour, or be of the least utility ; and while we were putting off from the wharf, which was...heard a number of sarcastic remarks. This is the way in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. . . . Although the prospect... | |
 | Charles C. B. Seymour - Biography - 1858 - 1454 pages
...believed that tho boat would ever move one mile an hour, or be of the least utility ; and while wo wore putting off from the wharf, which was crowded with...heard a number of sarcastic. remarks. This is the way in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Having employed much time,... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...city, who believed that the boat would ever move one mile an hour, or be of the least utility ; and while we were putting off from the wharf, which, was...heard a number of sarcastic remarks. This is the way in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Having employed much time,... | |
 | Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 844 pages
...the wharf, which waa crowded with spectators, I heard a numher of sarcastic remarks. Thi is the way in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophera 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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Portraits, American - 1862 - 686 pages
...the city who believed that the boat would ever move one mile an hour, or be of the least utility; and while we were putting off from the wharf, which was...heard a number of sarcastic remarks. This is the way in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Having employed much time,... | |
 | Nathan Howe Parker - Missouri - 1867 - 504 pages
...in the city who believed the boat would ever move one mile an hour, or be of the least utility. And while we were putting off from the wharf, which was...know, in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Having employed much time, and money, and zeal in accomplishing this work,... | |
 | Nathan Howe Parker - Missouri - 1867 - 494 pages
...believed the boat would ever move one mile an hour, or be of the least utility. And while we were pulling off from the wharf, which was crowded with spectators,...know, in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Having employed much time, and money, and zeal in accomplishing this work,... | |
 | Jacob Isidor Mombert - Lancaster County (Pa.) - 1869 - 832 pages
...that the boat would move one mile an hour, or be of the least utility. And when we were putting oft" from the wharf, which was crowded with spectators,...know, in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors." But the multitude was disappointed, even his most sanguine anticipations... | |
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The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved. The morning I left New York, there were not perhaps thirty persons in the city who believed that the boat would ever move one mile an hour, or be of the least utility; and while we were putting... 
