 | 1808 - 356 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...know, in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Having employed much time and money and zeal in accomplishing this work,... | |
 | Cadwallader David Colden - 1817 - 400 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... | |
 | James Stuart - 1833 - 552 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...know, in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. " Having employed much time, and money, and zeal, in accomplishing this... | |
 | 1833 - 480 pages
...in the city who believed that the boat would 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,... | |
 | James Stuart - 1833 - 928 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...number of sarcastic remarks. This is the way, you knew, in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. " Having employed... | |
 | William Dunlap - 1834 - 450 pages
...thirty persons who believed that the boat would 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... | |
 | 1835 - 398 pages
...thirty persona who believed that the boat would move a mile an hour, or be of the least util, ity ; and while we were putting off from the wharf, which was...know, in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and* projectors. merchandise on the Mississippi and Missouri, and other great rivers,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 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,... | |
 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - 1856 - 860 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 philcsophci-s and projectors. Having employed much... | |
 | 1841 - 604 pages
...city who believed that the boat would ever move one mile an hour, or b« of the least utility ; and while we were putting off from the wharf, which was...spectators, I heard a number of sarcastic remarks. Having employed much time, money, and zeal, in accomplishing this work, it gives me, as it will give... | |
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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... 
