 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1829 - 618 pages
...replied, ' It was a very fine project, and might be executed a century hence.' ' Why, sir,' said he, ' here is a canal of a few miles, projected by General...dollars, necessary to complete it, cannot be obtained of the general government, the state government, or from individuals — and you talk of making a canal... | |
 | David Hosack - Celebrities - 1829 - 562 pages
...replied, it was a very fine project, and might be executed a century hence. " Why sir," said he, " here is a canal of a few miles, projected by General...languished for many years because the small sum of 200,000 dollars necessary to complete it, cannot be obtained from the general government, the state... | |
 | Joshua Victor Hopkins Clark - Onondaga County (N.Y.) - 1840 - 440 pages
...coolly replied, " It is a splendid project, and may be executed, a century hence. Why, sir," said he, "here is a canal of a few miles, projected by General...thousand dollars, necessary to complete it, cannot be obSee letter to William Darley, Canal Documents, Vol. L page 42. taincd from the general government,... | |
 | New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor - Public works - 1906 - 1096 pages
...President replied that the undertaking, though desirable, was a century too soon, saying: "Why sir, here is a canal of a few miles, projected by General...languished for many years because the small sum of $200,000 necessary to complete it, can not be obtained from the general government, the state government,... | |
 | James Malcolm - New York (State) - 1918 - 600 pages
...President replied that the undertaking, though desirable, was a century too soon, saying: " Why sir, here is a canal of a few miles, projected by General...languished for many years because the small sum of $200,000 necessary to complete it, can not be obtained from the general government, the state government,... | |
 | Alvin Fay Harlow - Travel - 1926 - 520 pages
...navigation by replying coldly: "It is a splendid project and may be executed a century hence. Why, sir, here is a canal of a few miles projected by General...languished for many years because the small sum of $200,000 necessary to complete it cannot be obtained from the general government or from individuals.... | |
 | Mark Stefik - Computers - 2000 - 350 pages
...here is a canal for a few.miles, projected by George Washington, which if completed, would render this fine commercial city, which has languished for many...general government, the state government, or from individuals—and you talk of making a canal 350 miles through the wilderness—it is little short... | |
 | Peter L. Bernstein - Business & Economics - 2005 - 472 pages
...century earlier — the Yorkers were about to beat them to the punch. "Why sir," he declared to Forman, "here is a canal of a few miles, projected by General...languished for many years because the small sum of 200,000 dollars necessary to complete it, cannot be obtained from the general government, the state... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1829 - 654 pages
...replied, ' It was a very fine project, and might be executed a century hence.' ' Why, sir,' said he, ' here is a canal of a few miles, projected by General...dollars, necessary to complete it, cannot be obtained of the general government, the state government, or from individuals — and you lalk of making a canal... | |
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here is a canal of a few miles, projected by General Washington, which, if completed, would render this a fine commercial city, which has languished for many years, because the small sum of... 