 | Robert Henry Thurston - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 230 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... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - Inventors - 1893 - 332 pages
...city 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. Having employed much time,... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - Biography & Autobiography - 1893 - 324 pages
...boat would even move one mile an hour, or be of the least utility ; and while we were putting off rr 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. Having employed much time,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1894 - 462 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... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - 1895 - 330 pages
...city 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. Having employed much time,... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - United States - 1899 - 758 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,... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 510 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,... | |
 | Louis Albert Banks - United States - 1902 - 420 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,... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 512 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,... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - Biography & Autobiography - 1904 - 508 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... | |
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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... 
