The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite'...The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it w...
Monsieur is going to leave home? Yes, returned Phileas Fogg. We are going round the world.
In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.
If providence has created the stars and the planets, Man has called the cannon-ball into existence.
However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having d...
Como la enfermedad que lo aquejaba, más que física, era moral, los medicamentos que le obligaban a ingerir no producían efecto alguno.
As for seeing the town, the idea never occurred to him, for he was the sort of Englishman who, on his travels, gets his servant to do his sightseeing for him.
Ah! women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts!
Adieu, soleil ! s'écria-t-il. Disparais, astre radieux ! Couche-toi sous cette mer libre, et laisse une nuit de six mois étendre ses ombres sur mon nouveau domaine !
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues,
Éste se levantó y saludó sonriendo a la hermosa y azorada muchacha que acababa de excusarse... El artista era el náufrago de Corryvrekan.
¡El mar es todo! Cubre las siete décimas partes del globo terrestre. Su aliento es puro y sano. Es el inmenso desierto en el que el hombre no está nunca solo, pues siente estremecerse la vida en torno...
What gamblers regret the most isn't the loss of their money so much as the loss of their insane hopes. But
Is this man, all things considered, to be hated or admired? Is he a victim or a killer?
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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...
Well, my dear fellow, resumed Banks, a daring climber like you ought to make some ascent in all this great chain. Never! exclaimed the captain. Why not? I have renounced ascents! Since when? ...
To look at the height of Snäfell 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 s...
Then a door opened into a kitchen nine feet long, situated between the large store-rooms. There electricity, better than gas itself, did all the cooking.