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" The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor feeling enough to suppress their contemptuous ridicule and rude jokes, were silenced for a moment by a vulgar astonishment, which deprived them of the power of utterance, till the triumph of genius... "
Scientific Tracts - Página 77
1832
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The Laborer; a Remedy for His Wrongs: Or, A Disquisition on the Usages of ...

William Dealtry - 1869 - 460 páginas
...had neither sense nor feeling enough to repress their contemptuous ridicule, were silenced for the moment by a vulgar astonishment which deprived them of the power of utterance, till the triumph extorted from the incredulous multitude which crowded the shores, was shouts and acclamations of congratulation...
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A Book about Travelling, Past and Present

Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 642 páginas
...sense nor feeling enough to repress their contemptuous ridicule and rude jokes, were silenced for the moment by a vulgar astonishment, which deprived them...acclamations of congratulations and applause." This famed vessel, which was named the ' Clermont ' (and is shown in the annexed woodcut), soon after sailed...
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The sea: its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism. [4 vols., publ ...

Frederick Whymper - 1883 - 712 páginas
...The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor feeling enough to suppress their contemptuous ridicule and rude jokes, were silenced for a moment...incredulous multitude which crowded the shores shouts and exclamations of congratulation and applause." There can be no doubt that Fulton derived his general...
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The Life of Robert Fulton and a History of Steam Navigation

Thomas Wallace Knox - 1886 - 538 páginas
...The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor feeling enough to suppress their contemptuous ridicule and rude jokes, were silenced for a moment...which crowded the shores, shouts and acclamations of congratulation and applause." During this trial trip Fulton perceived an error in the form of the wheels...
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The Memorial History of the City of New-York: From Its First ..., Volumen3

James Grant Wilson - 1893 - 802 páginas
...The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor feeling enough to suppress their contemptuous ridicule and rude jokes, were silenced for a moment...which crowded the shores, shouts and acclamations of congratulation and applause." The trial showed to Fulton a defect in the paddle-wheels, the buckets...
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The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All ..., Volumen2

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1894 - 462 páginas
...The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor feeling enough to suppress their contemptuous ridicule and rude jokes, were silenced for a moment...which crowded the shores, shouts and acclamations of congratulation and applause. The boat had not been long under way when Fulton ordered her engine to...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volumen276

1894 - 678 páginas
...sense nor feeling enough to repress their contemptuous ridicule and rude jokes, were silenced for the moment by a vulgar astonishment, which deprived them...and acclamations of congratulations and applause." The Clermont was not a very small size for those days. She measured 133 feet long, 18 feet beam, and...
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The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical--legendary--picturesque

Edgar Mayhew Bacon - 1902 - 620 páginas
...The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor feeling enough to suppress their contemptuous ridicule and rude jokes, were silenced for a moment...which crowded the shores, shouts and acclamations of congratulation and applause. Fulton, in a letter to the American Citizen, in sentences that show a...
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History of American Steam Navigation

John Harrison Morrison - 1908 - 654 páginas
...The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor feeling enough to suppress their contemptuous ridicule and rude jokes, were silenced for a moment...deprived them of the power of utterance, till the trinmph of genins extorted from the incredulous multitude which crowded the shores, shouts and acclamations...
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Fulfilment of Three Remarkable Prophecies in the History of the Great Empire ...

Henry Whittemore - 1909 - 196 páginas
...feeling enough to suppress their contemptuous ridicule and rude jokes, were silenced for a moment with vulgar astonishment, which deprived them of the power...which crowded the shores, shouts and acclamations of congratulation and applause. ' ' A corespondent of the Cincinnati Gazette in 1880 says : "Fulton's...
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