 | 1831 - 336 pagine
...or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense; the dry jest; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures; the dull but endless repetition...length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends... | |
 | 1831 - 336 pagine
...or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition...length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pagine
...or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition...length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1832 - 244 pagine
...sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh rose at my expense, the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition...of the Fulton folly. Never did a single encouraging remark,.a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. Silence itself was but politeness veiling its... | |
 | 1833 - 222 pagine
...or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition...length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends... | |
 | 1833 - 426 pagine
...or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at ray expense : the dry jest; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition...length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited my friends to... | |
 | 1834 - 440 pagine
...or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expence ; the dry jest; tfte wise c'alcuation of losses and expenditures; the dull but endless repetition...length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends... | |
 | 1834 - 498 pagine
...or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition...length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends... | |
 | 1834 - 116 pagine
...FnltonFolly!" " Never," says that martyr of ingratitude, " did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, a warm wish, cross my path. Silence itself was but...politeness veiling its doubts, or hiding its reproaches." Even when the day of trial came — that day so brilliant in the scientific records of the West, when... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1835 - 558 pagine
...or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull, but endless, repetition...length the day arrived, when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends... | |
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The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense; the dry jest; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition of the Fulton Folly. 
