 | 1808 - 356 str.
...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 crowded with spectators,...it so fully answer my expectations. It will give a quick and cheap conveyance to merchandize on the Missisippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which... | |
 | Cadwallader David Colden - 1817 - 400 str.
...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 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... | |
 | James Stuart - 1833 - 552 str.
...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 crowded with spectators,...expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to merchandize on the Mississippi and Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their... | |
 | 1833 - 480 str.
...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 crowded with spectators,...it so fully answer my expectations. It will give a quick and cheap conveyance to merchandize on the Mississippi, Missouri and other great rivers which... | |
 | James Stuart - 1833 - 928 str.
...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 crowded with spectators,...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 str.
...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 crowded with spectators,...and money, and zeal, in accomplishing this work, it gave me, as it will you. great pleasure to see it so fully answer my expectations. It will give a cheap... | |
 | 1835 - 398 str.
...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 crowded with spectators,...compliment what they call philosophers and* projectors. merchandise on the Mississippi and Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 str.
...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 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,... | |
 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - 1856 - 860 str.
...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 crowded with spectators,...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 str.
...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 crowded with 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... 
