 | 1831 - 578 頁
...of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull...length, the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends to... | |
 | 1873 - 350 頁
...of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull...wish cross my path. Silence itself was but politeness vailing its doubts or hiding its reproaches. 8. " At length, the day arrived when the experiment was... | |
 | 1873 - 342 頁
...of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull...cross my path. • Silence itself was but politeness vailing its doubts or hiding its reproaches. 8. " At length, the day arrived when the experiment was... | |
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The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull, but endless, repetition of the Fulton Folly. 
