 | Thomas Streatfeild Clarkson - History - 1869 - 358 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,... | |
 | Jacob Isidor Mombert - Lancaster County (Pa.) - 1869 - 834 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,...of sarcastic remarks. This is the way, you know, in wlu'ch ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors." But the multitude was disappointed,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 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,... | |
 | James D. McCabe - Artists - 1872 - 682 pages
...city who believed that the boat would ever move one mile per hour, or be of the least utility; and while we were putting off from the wharf, which was...spectators, I heard a number of sarcastic remarks." One o'clock, the hour for sailing, came, and expectation was at its highest. The friends of the inventor... | |
 | Frank Boott Goodrich - Discoveries in geography - 1873 - 726 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... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Steam-navigation - 1881 - 290 pages
...that the boat would ever move one mile an hour or be of the least utility ; and while we were passing off from the wharf, which was crowded with spectators,...heard a number of sarcastic remarks. This is the way in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Although the prospect... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - United States - 1884 - 652 pages
...city who believed that the boat would ever move one mile per hour, or be of the least utility; and while we were putting off from the wharf, which was...spectators, I heard a number of sar•castic remarks." One o'clock, the hour for sailing, came, and expectation was at its highest. The friends of the inventor... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - Steam-navigation - 1886 - 538 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... | |
 | Charles Burr Todd - 1886 - 316 pages
...appeared before the bar of the Convention and made a public recantation of the Christian religion. crowded with spectators, I heard a number of sarcastic remarks. This is the way in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophy and its projectors. " Having employed much... | |
 | Emerson W. Gould - Mississippi River - 1889 - 792 pages
...the city who believed the boat would ever be moved 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, money and zeal, in accomplishing this work,... | |
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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... 
