...great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen; and, altho the prospect of personal emolument has been some inducement...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage my country will derive. 196 DOWN THE OHIO BY BOAT FROM PITTSBURGH — PAST...

...Mississippi and Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen. And although the prospect of personal...invention." It is not very creditable to the spirit of enterprise, for Progress in which Great Britain and the United States, the two greatest J^mboat commercial...

...some unconscious inversion of emphasis when he wrote to his friend Joel Barlow about the steamboat, " Although the prospect of personal emolument has been...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage that my country will draw from the invention." Morse showed in the early part...

...some unconscious inversion of emphasis when he wrote to his friend Joel Barlow about the steamboat, " Although the prospect of personal emolument has been...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage that my country will draw from the invention." Morse showed in the early part...

...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 advantage my country will derive from the invention."2 The Clermont, as she appeared...

...inventions, good and bad, was unquestionably sincere, though doubtless exuberant of emphasis, when he wrote: "Although the prospect of personal emolument has been...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantages that my country will draw from the invention" (of the steamboat). Edison...

...eyes. For more than twenty years he had hoped against hope, and now he saw the fruition of his work. "Although the prospect of personal emolument has been some inducement to me," he wrote to an intimate friend, "yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantages...

...great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen; and, altho the prospect of personal emolument has been some inducement...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage my country will derive. CHAPTER VIII INTRODUCTION OF MANUFACTURES AND CONDITION...

...prospect of personal gain has been some inducement to me, yet I feel . . . more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage that my country will derive from the invention." The passage of the Clermont caused great excitement among the people along the way. Here is a description...

...on the Mississippi, Missouri and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures . . . and. although the prospect of personal emolument has...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage my country will derive from the invention." 198 83 Plan of the Chancellor...