Though, by a just turn-about of things here below, Great Britain has become a colony of the United States, the English are not yet reconciled to the situation.
These suckling-pigs were really delicious, and Pencroft was devouring his share with great gusto, when all at once a cry and an oath escaped him. What's the matter? asked Cyrus Harding. The matter? th...
The lad was thirty years old, and his age to that of his employer was as fifteen is to twenty. Please forgive me for this underhanded way of admitting I had turned forty.
The impulse once given to these frightful butcheries, it was impossible to stop them.
The happiest animal in the world, he used to say, would be a snail who could make himself just such a shell as he wanted;I shall try to be an intelligent snail.
The English, says M. Grandidier, have been fortunate in finding in this large and magnificent country a gentle, industrious, and civilized people, who for long have been accustomed to a yoke. But they...
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.
Pero mi intensión no será necesaria... Tomás Roch no es victima de una de esas crisis que antes lo abatían... Es dueño de sí mismo... Y cuando se ve ante la bandera... comprende... retrocede...
It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years.
If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman.
I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory.
I am the law, and I am the judge!
Here are sixty thousand, replied Phileas Fogg, handing the captain a roll of bank-bills. This had a prodigious effect on Andrew Speedy. An American can scarcely remain unmoved at the sight of sixty th...
From the same cause, the idea of a floating hull of an enormous wreck was given up.
From a caprice of nature, not from the ignorance of man. Not a mistake has been made in the working. But we cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we canno...
FIN
Este rayo tiene la virtud de hacer que aquel que lo ha visto no pueda jamás equivocarse en las cosas del corazón; su aparición destruye las ilusiones y las mentiras; y el que ha tenido la dicha de ve...
Después del éxito parecía natural que se apoderase de él el sentimiento de tristeza que suele seguir a los deseos satisfechos.
Cheers for Edgar Poe!
Besides, said Kennedy, the time when industry gets a grip of everything and uses it to its own advantage may not be particularly amusing. If men go on inventing machinery they'll end up by being swall...