As for difficulties, replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, they were made to be overcome.
Ah!' said Michel, tempted, 'you have modern poems?' 'Of course. For instance, Martillac's 'Electric Harmonies,' which won a prize last year from the Academic of Sciences, and Monsieur de Pulfasse's 'M...
Ah! I cried, springing up. But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he...
A wicked man is distrustful, and fear is commonly found in those who are able to inspire it.
A true Englishman never jokes when he has a stake depending on the matter.
— El orgullo — dijo el ermitaño a sus huéspedes — ha perdido a un ángel nacido para el bien. Es la piedra de toque en que se quiebran todos los destinos humanos.
« Ce ne sont pas de nouveaux continents qu’il faut à la terre, mais de nouveaux hommes ! »
In the shape of innumerable stars. Thus was formed the Nebulae, of which astronomers have reckoned up nearly 5,000. Among these 5,000 nebulae there is one which has received the name of the Milky Way,...
C’est bon, l’oxygène ! Que monsieur ne craigne pas de respirer. Il y en a pour tout le monde. »
Been so much talked of, even through the Atlantic cable, that jesters pretended that this slender fly had stopped a telegram on its passage and was making the most of it. So when the frigate had been...
Your arguments at rotten at the foundation. You speak in the future, ' We shall be there! We shall be here!' I speak in the present,'We are here, and we must profit by it.
Y de creer a Toussenel este azote no es nada en comparación con el que golpeará a nuestros descendientes cuando los mares estén despoblados de focas y de ballenas. Entonces, llenos de pulpos, de medus...
Wherever he saw a hole he always wantedto know the depth of it. To him this was important.
Whereas, once under way, you can get so far that going forwards is the only choice.
When science has uttered her voice, let babblers hold their peace.
What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
These composers, Captain Nemo answered me, are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; and
The superb grottoes or caves of Adjuntah, which rival those of Ellora, and perhaps in general beauty surpass them, occupy the lower end of a small valley about half a mile from the town.
The once slave, though free, would not leave his master. He would have died for him. He was a man of about thirty, vigorous, active, clever, intelligent, gentle, and calm, sometimes naive, always merr...
The mansion in Saville Row, though not sumptuous, was exceedingly comfortable. The habits of its occupant were such as to demand but little from the sole domestic, but Phileas Fogg required him to be...