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Are we rising again?" "No. On the contrary." "Are we descending?" "Worse than that, captain! we are falling!" "For Heaven's sake heave out the ballast!" "There! the last sack is empty!" "Does the balloon rise?" "No!" "I hear a noise like the dashing of waves. The sea is below the car! It cannot be more than 500 feet from us!" "Overboard with every weight! ... everything!"
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Yes, forgotten by all else, but not by us.
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Wait a few minutes, our lantern will be lit, and, if you like light places, you will be satisfied.
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To look at the height of Snafell it seemed impossible to reach the summit. But after an hours' fatigue and athletic exercise, a sort of staircase suddenly appeared in the midst of the vast carpet of snow lying on the croup of the volcano, and this greatly simplified our ascent. (p. 73)
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Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England!
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queen-victoria
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Oh!' cried Neb, 'suppose it's jam!' 'I hope not,' replied the reporter.
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La distance est un vain mot, la distance n'existe pas!
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Je ne sais pas si les mondes sont habites, et, comme je ne le sais pas, je vais y voir!
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Literature is dead, my boy' the uncle replied. 'Look at these empty rooms, and these books buried in their dust; no one reads anymore; I am the guardian of a cemetery here, and exhumation is forbidden.' . . . 'My boy, never speak of literature, never speak of art! Accept the situation as it is! You are Monsieur Boutardins ward before being your Uncle Huguenin's nephew!
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the `Living Infinite,' as one of your poets has said.
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I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously
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personality
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populations
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Passepartout was astounded, and, though ready to attempt anything to get over Medicine Creek, thought the experiment proposed a little too American.
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Ah! sir, live--live in the bosom of the waters! There only is independence! There I recognise no masters! There I am free!
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Alluding to the extent of Florida, a mere peninsula confined between two seas, they pretended that it could never sustain the shock of the discharge, and that it would "bust up" at the very first shot. "Very well, let it bust up!" replied the Floridans, with a brevity of the days of ancient Sparta."
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the human imagination soon got caught up in the most ridiculous ichthyological fantasies.
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What human being would ever have conceived the idea of such a journey? and, if such a person really existed, he must be an idiot, whom one would shut up in a lunatic ward, rather than within the walls of the projectile.
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His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk."
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I am the law, and I am the judge!
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Distance is but a relative expression, and must end by being reduced to zero.
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The devil!" exclaimed Ned."
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Almighty God! enough! enough!
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solitude is a sad thing, with no heart to which to confide your griefs.
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solitude
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The fewer one's comforts, the fewer one's needs; and the fewer one's needs, the greater one's happiness.
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to the poet a pearl is a tear of the sea
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No one has ever seen anything like it; but the sight may cost us dear. And, if I must say all, I think we are seeing here things which God never intended man to see.
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Ah! women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts!
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The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.
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That Indian, sir, is an inhabitant of an oppressed country; and I am still, and shall be, to my last breath, one of them!
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Some of these tusks have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn always attacks with success.
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When science has uttered her voice, let babblers hold their peace.
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I felt that my true vocation, the sole end of my life, was to chase this disturbing monster and purge it from the world.
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I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life.
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But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.
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Civilization is like air or water. Wherever there is a passage, be it only a fissure, it will penetrate and modify the conditions of a country.
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Like snails, we were fixed to our shells, and I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life.
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to the poet, a pearl is a tear of the sea
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Life is not all sunshine, but yet I would willingly consent to live ten centuries out of pure curiosity!" That"
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If some volcano in the Alleghanies threatens North Carolina with a disaster similar to that of Martinique, buried beneath the outpourings of Mont Pelee, then these people must leave their homes.
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to catch it called for harpooning it--which was Ned Land's business; to harpoon it called for sighting it--which was the crew's business; and to sight it called for encountering it--which was a chancy business.
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The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of..
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Cheers for Edgar Poe!
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed.
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It is not our duty to explain facts, but to make the best possible use of them.
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