It may be said here that the wise policy of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native religions.
In Conseil I had a seasoned specialist in biological classification, an enthusiast who could run with acrobatic agility up and down the whole ladder of branches, groups, classes, subclasses, orders, f...
I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.
His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call repose in action, a quality of those who act rather than talk.
He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment.
Edgar Poe has said, always to reckon with the unforeseen, the unexpected, the inconceivable, which have a very large share (in those affairs), and chance ought always to be a matter of strict calculat...
Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the...
¿cómo esos niños abandonados a sí mismos y no teniendo más víveres que los existentes en el barco, proveerían a las necesidades de la existencia? Si fuese continente, dado que no podría ser otro que e...
The young man left his uncle's office, eyes filled with tears; yet he braced himself against dispair. 'I have no more than a single day of freedom,' he mused, 'at least I shall spend it as I please; I...
The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.
The latter seemed to be a victim to some emotion that he tried in vain to repress.
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...
Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865.
Now, the earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at one point in its course is at its apogee, that is, at its farthest from the sun,
Night came. The moon was entering her first quarter, and her insufficient light would soon die out in the mist on the horizon. Clouds were rising from the east, and already overcast a part of the heav...
Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.