 | Nathan Howe Parker - Missouri - 1867 - 494 pages
...merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to 1lie enterprise of our countrymen; and although the prospect...inducement to me, yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in rettecling, with you, on the immense advantage that my country will derive from the invention. Yours... | |
 | Thomas Streatfeild Clarkson - History - 1869 - 358 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri and other great rivers, which are now laying...personal emolument has been some inducement to me, I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage my country will derive from... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri and other great rivers, which are now laying...personal emolument has been some inducement to me, I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage my country will derive from... | |
 | Frank Boott Goodrich - Discoveries in geography - 1873 - 724 pages
...This is the way in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. . . . Although the prospect of personal emolument has been...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage that my country will derive from the invention." The Clermont was now advertised... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Steam-navigation - 1881 - 290 pages
...remarks. This is the way in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Although the prospect of personal emolument has been...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantages my country will derive from the invention." The British Naval Chronicle for... | |
 | George Henry Preble, John Lipton Lochhead - History - 1883 - 520 pages
...remarks. This is the way in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers aud projectors. Although the prospect of personal emolument has been...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantages my country will derive from the invention." The British Naval Chronicle for... | |
 | Charles Burr Todd - 1886 - 326 pages
...and other great rivers which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our country ; and although the prospect of personal emolument has...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the numerous advantages that my country will derive from the invention.'" This period was not devoid... | |
 | Charles Burr Todd - 1886 - 316 pages
...my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchants on the Mississippi, the Missouri, and other great rivers which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our country ; and although the prospect of personal emolument has been some inducement to me, yet I feel... | |
 | Emerson W. Gould - Mississippi River - 1889 - 792 pages
...great pleasure to see it so fully answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance on the Mississippi and Missouri, and other great rivers,...the enterprise of our countrymen, and although the prospects of personal emoluments has been some inducement to me, yet I feel infinitely more pleasure... | |
 | Scotch-Irish Society of America - Scots-Irish - 1892 - 418 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise of the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now Laying...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the im mouse advantages that my country will derive from the invention." There is a grand nobility... | |
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It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen ; and although the prospect of personal emolument has been... 
