 | John Fanning Watson - 1832 - 244 pagine
...achieved, I was the victim of disappointment. Imagination superseded the influence of fact. It was J,hen doubted if it could be done again, or if done, it...doubted if it could be made of any great value." Such is the graphic history of the first experiment ; a memorable and momentous epoch. How affecting and... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pagine
...shores; and then, even then, when all seemed achieved, I was the victim of disappointment. Imagination superseded the influence of fact. It was then doubted if it could be done again ; or, if dons, it was doubted if it could be made of any great value." THUS I THINK. [From I.uokc'., Miscellaneous... | |
 | 1833 - 222 pagine
...shores ; and then, even then, when all seemed achieved, I was the victim of disappointment. Imagination superseded the influence of fact. It was then doubted...in its substance, from the lips of the inventor." CURIOUS MEDICAL FACT. — Perhaps, the most ancient instance on record of the surgical operation of... | |
 | 1833 - 426 pagine
...then, even then, when all seemed achieved, I was the victim of disappointment. Imagination superceded the influence of fact. It was then doubted if it could...was doubted if it could be made of any great value." SINKING WEH/S.— Bishop Heber mentions a curious way of sinking wells in some parts of Asia. When... | |
 | 1834 - 498 pagine
...shores ; and then, even then, when all seemed achieved, I was the victim of disappointment. Imagination superseded the influence of fact. It was then doubted...in its substance, from the lips of the inventor." TOBACCO. — The Nicotiana tobaccum dries too much, it appears, in this country on fermentation ; it... | |
 | 1834 - 440 pagine
...shores; and then, even then, when all seemed achieved, I was the victim of disappointment. Imagination superseded the influence of fact. It was then doubted...was doubted if it could be made of any great value." THE MUSIC OF NATURE. NATUUI; seems to have mingled harmony in all her works. Each crowded and tumultuous... | |
 | 1834 - 116 pagine
...achieved, I was the victim of disappointment. Imagination superseded the influence of fact : it was doubted if it could be done again ; or, if done, it...was doubted if it could be made of any great value." Of any great value! — even so ; and yet the conduct of Great Britain, with regard to the application... | |
 | edmund ruffin - 1835 - 912 pagine
...willing to trust the evidences of their own senses. I was the victim of disappointment. Imagination superseded the influence of fact, it was then doubted...could be done again, or if done, it was doubted if it would be made of any great value." chines, discovers new processes of industry, more than pays for... | |
 | 1836 - 378 pagine
...shores ; and then, even then, when all seemed achieved, I was the victim of disappointment. Imagination superseded the influence of fact. It was then doubted,...it could be done again ; or if done, it was doubted it it could be made of any great value. Such was the history of the first experiment, as it fell, not... | |
 | Boyman Boyman - 1840 - 210 pagine
...shores; and then, even then, when all seemed achieved, I was the victim of disappointment. Imagination superseded the influence of fact. It was then doubted...was doubted if it could be made of any great value." It has been already shown, that the practicability of Steam Navigation had been established in Scotland... | |
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... evidence of their, own senses*. We left the fair city of New York; we passed through the romantic and ever-varying scenery of the high-lands; we descried the clustering houses of Albany; we reached its shores ; and then, even then, when all seemed... 
