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... by a remarkable inci dent, 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 officer...

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...less no one has yet forgotten. Not to men- tion rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of co... ...days later, two thousand miles farther off, the Helvetia, of the Compagnie-Nationale, and the Shannon, of the Royal Mail Steamship Company, sailing to... ...it had not been re-enacted under similar circumstances. But, thanks to the nationality of the victim of the shock, thanks to the reputation of the com... ...hipping and Mercantile Gazette, the Lloyd’s List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance companies whi... ...ive as Ned Land was, I must admit that he took a certain liking for me. My nationality drew him to me, no doubt. It was an opportunity for him to talk... ...n in me. “Also,” he added, “true existence is there; and I can imagine the foundations of nautical towns, clusters of submarine houses, which, like th... ...XVIII VANIKORO THIS TERRIBLE SPECTACLE was the forerunner of the series of maritime catastrophes that the Nautilus was destined to meet with in its ro... ...re.” “M. Aronnax,” replied the Canadian, “your arguments are rotten at the foundation. You speak in the future, `We shall be there! we shall be here!’...

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...d the limits. For Nature, as green as she looks, rests everywhere on dread foundations, were we farther down; and Pan, to whose music the Nymphs dance... ...f a thing: the Commune (Municipality) of Paris, which is already here; the National Convention, which shall in few weeks be here. The Insurrectionary ... ... lucky!) the Electors shall begin electing Deputies; and so an all-healing National Convention will come to- gether. No marc d’argent, or distinction ... ...ry rendezvous for them; in that void Palace of the Tuileries, now void and National, and not a Palace, but a Caravansera. As for the Spontaneous Commu... ...inging itself, ’ must either found on Belief and provable Fact, or have no foundation at all (nor except as floating cobweb any existence at all),—the... ... deliver her from Slavery and Cimmeria. And have they not done it? Through Maritime Alps, through gorges of Pyrenees, through Low Countries, Northward... ...ver? Burst there, in starry sheen updarting, Light- rays from out its dark foundations; as it rocks and heaves, not in travail-throes, but in death-th...

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...irculating the Scriptures, (whether through the Bible Society, that is the National Society, or Provincial Societies,) of translating the Scriptures i... ...ealm. But probably it was the deep sense of that truth which reined up the national resistance. Sure of a speedy collision between some patron and the... ...will think, if this reformation were so vast that it drove them out of the national church, absolutely exploded them, then it follows that it must hav... ...s past him; and for the following reason: Milton has himself laid an early foundation for his introduction of the Pagan pantheon into Christian groups... ...inite change, illimitable novelty, inexhaustible difference, these are the foundations upon which nature builds and rati- fies her purpose of individu... ...here is a pretty strong tradition, (which could hardly arise but upon some foundation,) that Charlemagne had cul- tivated the Arabic so far as to talk... ...crown; Dalmatia, Croatia, Liburnia, and Istria, (with the exception of the maritime cities,) were joined to the territories, which he had himself conq... ...succession for the travel- ler, were arranged skilfully, we believe that a maritime circuit of Greece, with a few landings and short excursions, would...

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... economy, but he had the example of Lafayette in establishing the military foundation of these lib- erties, and of W ashington, Jefferson, Madison, an... ... lived less than fifty years under our Constitution. In that time no great national commotion had occurred that tested its strength, or its power of r... ...ic then subdued to settle- ment, studying the methods of local, State, and national ad- ministration, and observing the manners and habits, the daily ... ...revolution throughout the whole of Christendom. The various occurrences of national existence have every- where turned to the advantage of democracy; ... ...in England. *** No lofty conceptions, no intellectual system, directed the foundation of these new settlements. The colony was scarcely established wh... ...ames. See Chalmer. 48 Democracy in America In the North, the same English foundation was modified by the most opposite shades of character; and here ... ...ly prescribes the rule of competency. Thus all the questions which concern maritime commerce evidently fall under the cognizance of the Federal tribun... ... jurisdiction, the national courts can only hear causes which originate in maritime affairs. The Constitution comprises under one head almost all the ... ...y the executive and legislative authorities, to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdic- tion, and in general to all points which affect the law ...

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... occur in similar cases. Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as... ...tes to Lyman Trumbull, who was then elected. Two years later, in the first national convention of the Republican party, the delegation from Illinois b... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One liar advantage on the battlefield of national politics. In the assault on the Missouri Compromise which broke do... ...eagerly espoused the cause of the Southern seceders, and the two principal maritime powers of the Old World seemed only to be waiting for a favorable ... ...been thus detailed in sketching his early years because upon these strange foundations the structure of his great fame and service was built. In the p... ...eral troops from Boston agitated that ancient stronghold of freedom to its foundations. The pub- lication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which truly exposed th... ...parent on its own face; and I now ask if that affidavit be taken away what foundation will the fabric have left to stand upon? General Adams’s publica...

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...antime, by what accident, so foreign to my nature, do I find myself laying foundations towards a higher valuation of my own workmanship? O reader, I h... ...s, when made vocal to the meditative heart by the truths and services of a national church, God holds with children “communion undisturbed.” Solitude,... ... often I was disposed to grieve over them. They tended to shake that solid foundation of utter despicable- ness upon which I relied so much for my fre... ...refore, to consider that point; but at last replied, that my people, being maritime, supported themselves mainly by a herring fishery, from which I de... ...olophon. NO NO NO NO NOTES TES TES TES TES 1 “Peculiar.”—Viz., as endowed foundations to which those resort who are rich and pay, and those also who,... ...racter of the British policy as to all external demonstrations of pomp and national pretension, and its strong opposition to that of France under corr... ...s, why, we may ask, were not the many and gorgeous jewels, achieved by the national wisdom and power in later times, adopted into the recomposed tiara... ...(French and English) that made irregular war upon the Spanish shipping and maritime towns was that which I have here retained. 6 “Seamanship and ship...

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...Nicoll. If more days are granted me, they shall be passed where I have found life most pleasant and man most interesting; the axes of my black boys ar... ...t Louis Stevenson This proneness to suicide, and loose seat in life, is not peculiar to the Marquesan. What is peculiar is the wide- spread depression... ...ing them together, and add the case of the deserted ruin, as though the dead continually besieged the paepaes of the living: were kept at arm’s- lengt... ... in a corner of a barbarous isle, or to see a building so antique still bright with novelty. The architect, a French lay brother, still alive and well... ...-board, absinthe, a map of the world on Mercator’s projection, and one of the 48 In The South Seas most agreeable verandahs in the tropics), a handfu... ...r of the Nyanza, Captain Dewar, I should find a man of the same country and the same county with myself, and one whom I had seen walking as a boy on t...

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..., that it was a private event of that order which rose to the dignity of a national event. 2 But now, having prepared the reader to appreciate on its... ... is thrown away the opportunity, not only of applying corrections to false national tastes, but oftentimes even to the unfair accidents of luck that b... ...because, though tolerable perhaps in another situation, they really were a national disgrace, when standing behind that unrivalled portico of book 1. ... ..., perhaps, in part a scoff of his opponents. Yet there must have been some foundation for the scoff, since, at an earlier stage of Burke’s career, Gol... ...h successive generations, which are so often found as a sort of hereditary foundation in the country mansions of our nobility. But a class of readers,... ...ine Art: for had the views of Addison upon the Italian opera had the least foundation in truth, there could have been no room or opening for any mode ... ...t? Neither in the Decemviral Tables, nor in the Code of Justinian, nor the maritime Code of Oleron, nor in the Canon Law, nor the Code Napoleon, nor o...

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...ad been given—but both of them were bad. I was told also that the absolute foundation of the edifice is bad— that the ground, which is near the river ... ...n remained in force; but that con- federation was an acknowledged failure. National great- ness could not be achieved under it, and individual enter- ... ...e the States, at the cost of some fond wishes, agreed to seek together for national power rather than run the risks entailed upon separate existence. ... ...ion claimed by the South for this movement is a misnomer. If any part of a nationality or empire ever rebelled against the government established on b... ...ot by the laws of any individual State. All questions of admiralty law and maritime jurisdiction, and cases affecting ambassadors or consuls, are ther... ... ef- fect that decisions given by American judges as to inter- national or maritime affairs affecting English interests could not be trusted, because ... ... ourselves have enjoyed anything approaching to their security since their foundation. Nor has our security been at all equal to theirs, if we are to ...

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...e discoverable in the language of the poems, the total absence of Athenian national feeling is per- haps no less worthy of observation. In later, and ... ...leading outline, the Iliad may be true to historic fact, that in the great maritime expedition of western Greece against the rival and half-kindred em... ...nt value of the ancient poetry on the T rojan war may thus have forced the national feeling of the Athenians to yield to their taste. The songs which ... ...tura should never betray the workmanship of an Athenian hand, and that the national spirit of a race, who have at a later period not inaptly been comp... ...wledged the greatest of poets, who most excelled in that which is the very foundation of poetry. It is the inven- tion that, in different degrees, dis... ...e, as if one should think to raise the super- structure by undermining the foundation: one would imag- ine, by the whole course of their parallels, th... ...ture age shall view, No trace remain where once the glory grew. The sapp’d foundations by thy force shall fall, And, whelm’d beneath the waves, drop t...

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...it at their own pleasure; and that all others—individuals, free States and national Government—are constitutionally bound to leave them alone about it... ...r. Clay says: “If a state of na- ture existed and we were about to lay the foundations of soci- ety, no man would be more strongly opposed than I shou... ... free Territories, a state of nature does exist. In them Congress lays the foundations of society; and in laying those foundations, I say, with Mr. Cl... ...e view as a great fundamental principle, and that Congress, which lays the foundations of society, should, like Mr. Clay, be strongly opposed to the i... ...ch make me believe that Edmunds and Morrill will spend this week among the National Democrats, trying to in- duce them to content themselves by voting... ...headed off, if you can. Call Wagley’s attention to it and have him and the National Democrat for Rep. to counteract it as far as they can. Y ours as e... ...espondence be- tween this, government and foreign powers with reference to maritime right , I transmit a report from the Secretary of State. ABRAHAM L...

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...itself,” said Mr. Webster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons,... ...thousand persons, living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” Report of Da... ... engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led. When he entered I observed that he carried no umb... ...he bottom of the sea after them; to have one’s hands among the unspeakable foundations, ribs, and very pelvis of the world; this is a fearful thing. W... ...g terrible events, — as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, whe... ...the land in this matter, so the whale fishery surpasses every other sort of maritime life, in the wonderfulness and fearfulness of the rumors which som... ...ppily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By that circular, it ap... ... And besides, when a man is elevated in that odd fashion, he has no proper foundation for his superior altitude. Hence, I conclude, that in boasting h... ...olent pitch of the boat will often go far to topple him, because length of foundation is nothing without corresponding breadth. Merely make a spread a...

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... in the mud—our 25 Charles Dickens two colliers (our watering place has a maritime trade em ploying that amount of shipping) have not an inch of wat... ...sociated in the minds of all Englishmen with brave, unpretending, cordial, national service. We like to look at him in his Sunday state; and if we wer... ...dungeon a ship going down; secondly, that the military creature’s arm is a national affront, which the government at home ought instantly to ‘take up.... ...s his baptismal name, and substi tuting for his ancestral designation the national ‘Dam!’ Nei ther can he by any means be brought to recognise the d... ...ng above them, the mast of which is burglariously sticking itself into the foundations of a blue villa, suspended sky high, surmounted by a lump of bl... ...her proprietor who was immensely learned. Whether this belief had any real foundation, we are not likely ever to know now. The only branches of educat...

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...ns,” “Cease Rude Boreas,” “Rule Britannia,” “In the Bay of Biscay O!”—some maritime event is about to take place. A ben is heard ringing as the curtai... ...elp of other wealthy endowments of land and money, he established a famous foundation hospital for old men and children. An extern school grew round t... ... old men and children. An extern school grew round the old almost monastic foundation, which subsists still with its middle- age costume and usages—an... ... But as for paying your creditors in full, I might as well hope to pay the National Debt. It is madness, sheer madness, to think of such a thing. Y ou... ...ave invaded Europe any time since the conclusion of the war, and carry the national Goddem into every city of the Continent. The congregation of hat-b... ...n the street were already surrounded by per- sons smoking and drinking the national small-beer, the public rooms were in a cloud of smoke, and Mr. Jos... ...ice of a life of love and constancy—raised too upon what secret and hidden foundations, wherein lay buried passions, uncounted struggles, unknown sacr...

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...and Diocles of Peparethus, who seem to be the earliest histo- rians of the foundation of Rome, is suspected by some, be- cause of its dramatic and fic... ...nd honor to those whom they thus forcibly seized. Not long after the first foundation of the city, they opened a sanctuary of refuge for all fugitives... ...h displeased; and as Romulus was casting up a ditch, where he designed the foundation of the citywall, he turned some pieces of the work to ridicule, ... ... farther use of the priests, and that was to give people directions in the national usages at funeral rites. 114 V olume One Numa taught them to rega... ...rwise, you must make use of others to intercede for you, for it is not the national cus- tom here for the king to give audience to anyone that doth no... ...her answers, particu- larly that there had been a neglect of some of their national rites relating to the Latin feasts; but the Alban water the oracle... ...ere eager to interfere again in Egypt, and to disturb the king of Persia’s maritime do- minions. Nay, there were a good many who were, even then, poss... ...housand men at arms, openly declared that they had undertaken this distant maritime expedition for the sake of Alcibiades, and that, if he was ill-use... ...ncertain about the place, 485 Plutarch’s Lives because there was a little maritime town of Laconia called Leuctron, and near Megalopolis in Arcadia a...

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...tself,” said Mr. W ebster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons ... ... thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” —Report of D... ... engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led. When he entered I observed that he carried no umb... ... bottom of the sea after them; to have one’s hands among the unspeak- able foundations, ribs, and very pelvis of the world; this is a fearful thing. W... ...ing terrible events,—as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, wh... ...he land in this matter, so the whale fishery surpasses every other sort of maritime life, in the wonderfulness and fearfulness of the rumors which som... ...pily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By that circular, it ap... ...olent pitch of the boat will often go far to topple him, because length of foundation is nothing without corre- sponding breadth. Merely make a spread... ...That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world’s foundations. Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and a...

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...r me, Richie.’ My father went on in this wise excitedly: ‘I was laying the foundation of your fortune here, my boy. Heavens! when I was in that bronze... ...ver and doubles itself every ten years, may—mind you, may— on such a solid foundation as that!—and as to birth, your Highness has only to grant us a p... ... stranger to. The consequence is, my grandest edi- fices fall; there is no foundation for them. Not that I am worse, understand me, than under a tempo... ...et- mirror in his hand. I thank him from my soul for not culti- vating the national cat’s whisker. None can imagine what I suffer from the oppressive ... ...ncesses in England. ‘Oh! but,’ said she, ‘you are having a—shall I call it—national revenge on them? “I will take one of your princesses,” says you; a... ...ring,’ the squire bawled. ‘La! squire,’ said she, ‘why, don’t you know the National Anthem?’ ‘National Anthem, ma’am! and a fellow, a velvet-tongued— ... ...act guineas from “old ocean” like salt. Precious few barristers understand maritime cases. The other day I was in Court, and prompted a great Q.C. in ...

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...enham.’ Some towns are said to have required the life of a child ere their foundations could be laid. Many a speculation has swallowed a life and fort... ... shillings, costs three-and-sixpence—a sum he could no more pay than I the National Debt, and with the alternative of three months’ imprisonment, bran... ...t?’ 116 Dynevor Terrace Vol 1 ‘It is a time when a display of loyalty and national spirit may turn the scale. I am resolved to let no trifle prevent ... ... warm, broth- erly feeling to be what you desire.’ ‘It would be the safest foundation.’ ‘Y es, if he were ten years older, and had seen the world; but... ... to add a little spice to their pleasures. Louis was over head and ears in maritime natural history; but Jem, backed by Mrs. Hannaford, prohibited his... ...osed his peace.’ ‘Did you discover whether his warnings have the slightest foundation?’ ‘He told me a history that somewhat accounts for his dis- trus... ... on the Hotel de Ville last night! A thousand people killed, at least!—The National Guard called out!’ ‘One of the lions of Paris, my dear aunt; Virgi...

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...aster Varney, secured a good freehold estate out of this old superstitious foundation; and I have but a poor lease of this mansion under you, void- ab... ...ts object, as tend to render the subject discontented, and shake the solid foundations of civil society. And it seems to be, under your Grace’s favour... ...have her portion in that happy City, whose walls are of pure gold, and the foundations garnished with all manner of precious stones.” “Ay, T ony,” sai... ...cious answer the Lady of the Lake vanished, and Arion, who was amongst the maritime deities, appeared upon his dolphin. But Lambourne, who had taken u... ... whole country around, had been at once the scene of solemnizing some high national festival, carried the same oppressive thought still closer to her ... ...r Owen Hopton is at my devotion; he commands the T ower of London, and the national treasure deposited there. My father and grand-father needed never ...

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...t, “I am compelled to tell you that these are not mere rumors destitute of foundation which thus disquiet me; but a serious-minded man, deserving all ... ...low; the monarchy he had scarcely reconstructed tottered on its precarious foundation, and at a sign from the emperor the incon- gruous structure of a... ...iscuss affairs connected with their trade. Already Dantes had visited this maritime Bourse two or three times, and seeing all these hardy free-traders... ...glars entered the service of the Spanish banker, with whom he had laid the foundations of his vast wealth. It was said at this moment that Danglars wa... ...which evi- dently, from the ease and grace with which she wore it, was her national attire. Behind her, but in deep shadow, was the outline of a mascu... ... to give you credit for having hit upon a most capital idea.” “And quite a national one, too,” replied Albert with gratified pride. “A mere masque bor... ...s for Franz, he was enchanted at the way in which Albert had sustained the national honor in the presence of the bandit. “My dear Albert,” he said, “i...