 I was building my first steam-boat at New York, the project was viewed by the public either with indifference, or with contempt, as a visionary scheme. My friends, indeed, were civil, but they were shy. They listened with patience to my explanations,...  The Irish penny magazine - 32. lappuse1833Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1883 - 412 lapas
..." When I was building my first steamboat at New York, tho project was viewed by the public critics with indifference, or with contempt, as a visionary...My friends, indeed, were civil, but they were shy. As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building-yard while my boat was in progress, 1 have... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1885 - 556 lapas
...he), I was building my first steamboat* at New York, the- project was viewed by the public critics with indifference, or with contempt, as a visionary...force of the lamentation of the poet: " Truths would you teach, or gave a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand." 5. As I had occasion... | |
 | New York (State) School for the deaf, White Plains - 1885 - 942 lapas
...When I was building my first steamboat at New York, the project was received by the public critics with indifference, or with contempt, as a visionary...were civil, but they were shy. They listened with a settled cast of incredulity on their countenances. I felt the full force of the lamentations of the... | |
 | James Burnley - 1886 - 420 lapas
...steamboat at New York," he said, "the project was viewed by the public either with indifference or contempt, as a visionary scheme. My friends, indeed,...of the lamentation of the poet — ' Truths would you teach, to save a sinking land ; All shun, none aid you, and few understand.' As I had occasion... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1888 - 316 lapas
...building my first steamboat, the project was viewed by the public at New York either with indifference or contempt, as a visionary scheme. My friends indeed...force of the lamentation of the poet — "Truths would you teach, to save a sinking land? All shun, none aid you, and few understand." 2. As I had occasion... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 lapas
...— "When I was building my first steamboat at New York," he said, according to Judge Story's report, "the project was viewed by the public either with...explanations, but with a settled cast of incredulity upon their countenances. I felt the full force of the lamentation of the poet, — ' Truths would you... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 474 lapas
...When I was building my first steamboat at New York," he said, according to Judge Story's report, " the project was viewed by the public either with indifference...explanations, but with a settled cast of incredulity upon their countenances. I felt the full force of the lamentation of the poet, — ' Truths would you... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 lapas
...as keenly as Fitch, twenty years before, under the want of popular sympathy : — incredulity upon their countenances. I felt the full force of the lamentation of the poet, — ' Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land, All fear, none aid you, and few understand.' As I had occasion to... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1890 - 350 lapas
...follows : " When I wns building my first steamboat at New York, the project was viewed hv the public with indifference or with contempt, as a visionary...shy. They listened with patience to my explanations, hut with a settled cast of incredulity on their countenances. Never did a single encouraging rcmark,... | |
 | Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States - 1894 - 400 lapas
...the actual words, in the following report from memory. 1. When I was building my first steamboat in New York, the project was viewed by the public either...force of the lamentation of the poet : "Truths would you teach, to save a sinking land, All shun, none aid you, and few understand." 2. As I had occasion... | |
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