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...eeing a full stop put to all abuses and corruptions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning... ...our imperial presence. “6th, He shall be our ally against our enemies in the island of Blefuscu, and do his utmost to destroy their fleet, which is no... ...st of these intestine disquiets, we are threatened with an invasion from the island of Blefuscu, which is the other great empire of the universe, almo... ...instrumental in saving the rest of the palace. T he empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the north east of Lilliput, from which it is parted on... ...tude is among them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 48 thus; that wh... ...ve I had got; and, without waiting for an answer, I went to that side of the island where our fleet lay. I seized a large man of war, tied a cable to ... ...o months with my wife and family, for my insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries, would suffer me to continue no longer. I left fifteen hundred ... ...udices, and a certain narrowness of thinking, from which we, and the politer countries of Europe, are wholly exempted. And it would be hard indeed, if... ...d of some prince, by exposing me in that chest; as great criminals, in other countries, have been forced to sea in a leaky ves sel, without provision...

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...than one who has gone round the Horn. No, no, this earth is pretty much an island; and all that can be truly said not to be so is water.” Y oung Weste... ...geant is about to embark with a party to relieve a post among the Thousand Islands; and as I heard him say he intended that Mabel should go along, you... ...ft your berth into a part of the world where they say there are a thousand islands.” “Pathfinder, this is some of your forgetfulness?” “Nay, nay, Serg... ...shortly for a post on the lake, though I do not say it is for the Thousand Islands, and I may have to go with it; in which case I intend to take Mabel... ... the whole of that vast region which has been called the W est, or the new countries since the war of the revolution, lay a comparatively unpeoped des... ...es you already, and a fortnight’s intercourse and kindness, down among the islands yonder will close ranks with the other half. The girl as much as to...

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...s fast enough in better protected regions higher up: for instance, Prophet’s Island contained one thou sand five hundred acres of land thirty years a... ... I felt honored by his notice. He told me the names of dim capes and shadowy islands as we glided by them in the solemnity of the night, under the win... ...ad a note book that fairly bristled with the names of towns, “points,” bars, islands, bends, reaches, etc.; but the informa tion was to be found only... ...f my ears hear aright, I have not only to get the names of all the towns and islands and bends, and so on, by heart, but I must even get up a warm per... ...mall hope, however: if we could get through the intricate and dangerous Hat Island crossing before night, we could venture the rest, for we would hav... ... call Bagasse) into great piles and set fire to them, though in other sugar countries the bagasse is used for fuel in the furnaces of the sugar mills... ... earlier tourists were obliged to originate their emotions, whereas in older countries one can always borrow emotions from one’s predecessors. And, mi... ...mation in a loud voice, taking formal pos session of the river and the vast countries watered by it, in the name of the King. The column bore this in...

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...world, and a combination of most of the best qualities of most of its best countries. For Captain Jorgan to sit anywhere in his long-skirted blue coat... ...t precautions to take against ‘em. In short, we were driving head on to an island. There was no island in the chart, and, therefore, you may say it wa... ...land in the chart, and, therefore, you may say it was ill-man- ners in the island to be there; I don’t dispute its bad breeding, but there it was. Tha... ...ad breeding, but there it was. Thanks be to Heaven, I was as ready for the island as the island was ready for me. I made it out myself from the masthe... ...nd manned, and went in that boat myself to 13 Charles Dickens explore the island. There was a reef outside it, and, float- ing in a corner of the smo... ...h a part of my boat’s crew. We found that every scrap of vegetation on the island (I give it you as my opinion, but scant and scrubby at the best of t...

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...made provision for the security of the coasts of Naples and Sicily and the island of Malta. To this Don Quixote replied, “His Majesty has acted like a... ... seven cubits and a half in height, which is a huge size. Likewise, in the island of Sicily, there have been found leg-bones and arm-bones so large th... ...ightily mistaken. He enticed me away from home by a trick, promising me an island, which I am still waiting for.” “May evil islands choke thee, thou d... ...vil islands choke thee, thou detestable Sancho,” said the niece; “What are islands? Is it something to eat, glutton and gormandiser that thou art?” “I... ...y; go govern your house and dig your seed-patch, and give over looking for islands or shylands.” The curate and the barber listened with great amuseme... ...should be washed with angels’ water and I with devil’s lye. The customs of countries and princes’ palaces are only good so long as they give no annoya... ...of everybody to whom they have become known, in this as well as in foreign countries, are quite sufficient for the purpose of turning into ridi- cule ...

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...res” of M. Jules Verne deserve to be made widely known in English-speaking countries by means of carefully prepared translations. Witty and ingenious ... ... of subsis- tence. For a long time to come the natives of that interesting island, who cleave to their desert home with all that amor patriae which is... ...l or two to receive a com- munication from a leading man of science in the island, which may furnish matter for additional information in a future edi... ...he worst of our difficulties.” I bent over the map. “You see this volcanic island,” said the Professor; “observe that all the volcanoes are called jok... ...very much struck with the aspect of a certain church spire situated in the island of Amak, which forms the south-west quarter of Copenhagen. I was ord... ...cotland near Peterhead, and the Valkyria turned her lead towards the Faroe Islands, passing between the Orkneys and Shetlands. Soon the schooner encou... ... at every period. Then I observed, mingled together in confusion, trees of countries far apart on the surface of the globe. The oak and the palm were ... ...le, we are going to resume the northern route, and to pass under the north countries of Europe—under Sweden, Russia, Siberia: who knows where?—instead...

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... time Macassar was teeming with life and commerce. It was the point in the islands where tended all those bold spirits who, fitting out schooners on t... ... others got discouraged; and for many years the green and peaceful-looking islands guarding the entrances to the promised land kept their secret with ... ...e of those long cruises when the old seaman was wont to visit almost every island in the archipelago. Months slipped by, and Lingard’s friendship seem... ...mayer, when the faint night breeze, heavy with aromatic exhalations of the islands, shoved the brig gently along under the peaceful and sparkling sky,... ...burning on the platforms built out over the river. Further away, where the island ended in a 12 Almayer’s Folly low cliff, rose a dark mass of buildi... ...leam her old life de- parted too. Thenceforth there was slavery in the far countries, amongst strangers, in unknown and perhaps terrible surround- ing... ...e for a word, for a smile, for a gesture even, and be his slave in far-off countries, away from Nina. But there were dangers. The one-eyed Babalatchi ...

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... Mitford’s Tales of Old Japan, wherein I learned for the first time the proper attitude of any rational man to his country’s laws – a secret found, an... ...xed to begin no work that is not philosophical, pas- sionate, dignified, happily mirthful, or, at the last and least, romantic in design. CHAPTER V MY... ...in the artist (so to speak) at the easel, and pass the afternoon with him in a generous emulation, making coloured drawings. On one of these occasions... ... took my fancy beyond expres- sion; it contained harbours that pleased me like sonnets; and with the unconsciousness of the predestined, I ticketed my... ...ng his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. Somewhat in this way, as I paused upon ... ...the spirit of emulation, for I had just finished my third or fourth perusal of The Phantom Ship. ‘Come,’ said I to my engine, ‘let us make a tale, a s...

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...that my heart bleeds, when I think of his sufferings in that lonely sea girt island, far away, poor man, from all his friends. It is an island covered... ...an that Ulysses should get home, we should first send Mercury to the Ogygian island to tell Calypso that we have made up our minds and that he is to r... ...s not dead yet not on the mainland. It is more likely he is on some sea girt island in mid ocean, or a prisoner among savages who are detaining him ag... ... has laid sor rows upon me of yet another kind; for the chiefs from all our islands, Dulichium, Same, and the woodland island of Zacynthus, as also a... ...inds about our course—for we did not know whether to go outside Chios by the island of Psyra, keeping this to our left, or inside Chios, over against ... ...what it is that we are thinking about and want; they know all the cities and countries in the whole world, and can traverse the sea just as well even ... ...nd now, tell me and tell me true. Where have you been wandering, and in what countries have you travelled? Tell us of the peoples themselves, and of t... ...know the gods go about disguised in all sorts of ways as people from foreign countries, and travel about the world to see who do amiss and who righteo...

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... Queen to walk on than because he carried the English name to undiscovered countries. Charles Strickland lived obscurely. He made enemies rather than ... ...in Christie’s catalogue as follows: “A nude woman, a native of the Society Islands, is lying on the ground beside a brook. Behind is a tropical Landsc... .... I only want to paint what I see.” “I wonder if I could write on a desert island, with the certainty that no eyes but mine would ever see what I had ... ...me- thing that kindled his soul to ecstasy . “Sometimes I’ve thought of an island lost in a boundless sea, where I could live in some hidden valley , ... ... ful secret. Her tranquillity was like the sullen calm that broods over an island which has been 155 Somerset Maugham swept by a hurricane. Her cheer... ...f dawn, and there was a ghostly silence on the lagoon. T en miles away the island of Murea, like some high fastness of the Holy Grail, guarded its mys... ...ey did not hesitate to share it among the rest. They be- longed to all the countries in the world, but this was no bar to good-fellowship; for they fe...

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... Safe to thy foes; yea, to a Marmosit. 40 When Belgiaes citties, the round countries drowne, That durty foulenesse guards, and armes the towne: ... ...any one, nor every one. To live in one land, is captivitie, To runne all countries, a wild roguery; 30 Waters stincke soone, if in one place they... ..., As streames, like veines, run through th’earth’s every part, Visit all Countries, and have slily made Georgeous France, ruin’d, ragged and de... ... a rosie Hemisphere On either side, and then directs us where 50 Upon the Islands fortunate we fall, (Not faynte Canaries, but Ambrosiall) Her... ...t two Loves the neasts) Succeeds a boundless sea, but yet thine eye Some Island moles may scattered there descry; And Sailing towards her India...

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...ly you to your heart’s content; or if you should not care to go to foreign countries you have at home Fonseca’s ‘Of the Love of God,’ in which is con-... ...a humble, submissive voice say, ‘I am the giant Caraculiambro, lord of the island of Malindrania, vanquished in single combat by the never sufficientl... ... him gladly, because any moment an adventure might occur that might win an island in the twinkling of an eye and leave him governor of it. On these an... ...ith his alforjas and bota, and longing to see himself soon governor of the island his master had promised him. Don Quixote decided upon taking the sam... ...“Your worship will take care, Señor Knight-errant, not to forget about the island you have promised me, for be it ever so big I’ll be equal to governi... ...gue with the knights- errant of old to make their squires governors of the islands or kingdoms they won, and I am determined that there shall be no fa... ..., as many as all Europe includes and contains.” Good God! what a number of countries and nations he named! giving to each its proper attributes with m... ... such a vast expanse of water, such a variety of climates, so many strange countries, to acquire what are called the blessings of fortune; and those u... ...should be washed with angels’ water and I with devil’s lye. The customs of countries and princes’ palaces are only good so long as they give no annoya...

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...nd made a broad-chested and intelligent man of every Bert Smallways in the islands, had they given the resources they spent in war material to the mak... ...ever the twain shall meet. Instead of which, Egypt, India, and the subject countries generally had produced new generations in a state of pas- sionate... ...k and adventurous with private war. It was the peculiar shape of Manhattan Island, pressed in by arms of the sea on either side, and incapable of comf... ...s it did so, and in a few minutes all New York was vibrating to the Staten Island guns. Several of these guns, and especially that at Giffords and the... ...on, and made her roll a great deal as she went to and fro over Man- hattan Island. Away in the north-west clouds gathered. The throb-throb of her slow... ... by shining waters, saw the Hudson River like a spear of silver, and Lower Island Sound like a shield. Even to Bert’s unphilosophical mind the contras... ...the whole world was at war, that he formed any image at all of the crowded countries south of these Arctic solitudes stricken with terror and dismay a... ...n across France, Belgium, Germany, England, Ireland, and a number of other countries. It was an interesting thought and suitable for conversation, but... ...ss: towns had been multiplying, populations increasing, values rising, new countries developing; thought, literature, knowledge unfolding and spreadin...

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...ecting the town, being one of those Englishmen who are wont to see foreign countries through the eyes of their domestics. 28 Around the World in 80 D... ...robbery; the large sum carried by Mr. Fogg; his eagerness to reach distant countries; the pretext of an eccentric and foolhardy bet—all confirmed Fix ... ...ul, “and counts on returning to London after putting the police of the two countries off his track.” “We’ll see about that,” replied Fix. “But are you... ...mbay came distinctly into view. The steamer entered the road formed by the islands in the bay, and at half-past four she hauled up at the quays of Bom... ...ose fine remains of Buddhist archi- tecture, the Kanherian grottoes of the island of Salcette. Having transacted his business at the passport office, ... ...se. An hour after leaving Bombay the train had passed the viaducts and the Island of Salcette, and had got into the open 41 Jules Verne country. At C... ...ipal merchants of Hong Kong, which is wholly an English city, though on an island on the Chinese coast. At half-past twelve the train stopped at Benar... ...ds, and they soon came in sight of the great Andaman, the principal of the islands in the Bay of Bengal, with its picturesque Saddle Peak, two thou- s... ...of it had 113 Jules Verne passed, that now they were beyond the fantastic countries of Japan and China, and were fairly on their way to civilised pla...

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...d Scot- land, and were now on the high sea between the Orkney and Shetland Islands, having avoided the dangerous currents of the Pentland Firth. For m... ... part of the time, would sometimes unbuckle a bit, and tell me of the fine countries he had visited. The shadow of poor Ransome, to be sure, lay on al... ...d the ship, that she must have drifted pretty near the coast or one of the islands of the Hebrides; and at last, looking out of the door of the round-... ...t the fighting. Why, my poor country people in their bit cobles* pass from island to island in all weathers, ay, and by night too, for the matter of t... ...the Isle of Canna or between that and Isle Eriska in the chain of the Long Island. Now to get from there to the Linnhe Loch, the straight course was t... ...he captain had no chart; he was afraid to trust his brig so deep among the islands; and the wind serving well, he preferred to go by west of Tiree and... ...again in the next country, which they call Mamore, and which is one of the countries of the Camerons. He’s King’s Factor upon both, and from both he h... ...lan gave way at last, but with only half a heart. “It’s one of the dowiest countries in Scotland,” said he. “There’s naething there that I ken, but he...

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...ligion, which is the greatest of moral forces, as it sank and rose in this island through the last two hun- dred years. It is well known that the two ... ...rcourse as between England and Scotland in the eighteenth century. In both countries, a cold and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the... ...use of this awakening from slumber in the two established churches of this island, the fact is so little to be denied, that, in both its aspects, it i... ...sed acts ‘for build- ing additional places of worship in the highlands and islands of Scotland.’ These acts may be looked upon as one section in that ... ...d by the celebrated Langles, that this oil, which even in the four Asiatic countries just mentioned, ranks with the greatest rarities, and in Shiras i... ...ople whose bar- barism had been for centuries the curse of the neighboring countries, and at the same time communicating to the cruel savages, who she... ... tribute and professed obedience; and Corsica, Sardinia, with the Balearic Islands, were dependent upon his possessions in Italy and Spain. His moral ... ...CE MODERN GREECE MODERN GREECE ‘Journal of a Tour in Greece and the Ionian Islands.’ By WILLIAM MURE, of Caldwell. 1842 1842 1842 1842 1842 W HAT ARE ... ...armed is almost equally peril- ous. But our secret opinion is, that in all countries alike, the only absolute safeguard against highway robbery is—a r...

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...m. If he were suffered to exist at all, it should have been on some desert island, or in the duskiness of some deep cavern, where no body would ever ... ... before this time, there had been a war between the city of Athens and the island of Crete, in which the Athenians were beaten, and compelled to beg f... ...peared to be striding, with a mea sured movement, along the margin of the island. It stepped from cliff to cliff, and sometimes from one headland to ... ...al. But who ever saw a brazen image that had sense enough to walk round an island three times a day, as this giant walks round the island of Crete, ch... ...hing in the distant sunshine, and revolving with immense strides round the island of Crete, as it was his never ceasing task to do. No sooner had they... ...y all looked very much travel stained, and would have had the dust of many countries on their shoes, if the streams, through which they waded, had not...

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... large town, (the town of Manchester, even then amongst the largest of the island,) I had passed the whole of my childhood, except for the few earlies... ... ness which, by description, so well I knew of sunset in those West Indian islands from which my father was returning— the knowledge that he returned ... ...stiny was, to live in one eternal ele- ment of feud. My own kingdom was an island called Gombroon. But in what parallel of north or south latitude it ... ...no vari- ety of vegetable produce, for I never denied that the poor little island was only 270 miles in circuit. Think, then, of sailing through 75 de... ...g peace, for here was established, in legal phrase, a lien forever upon my island, and not upon its margin, but its very centre, in favor of any invad... ...phere, or by means of rivers, by birds, by winds, by wa- ters, into remote countries. But the reader shall judge for himself. At the opening of the ta... ...n the English system for matriculating at Oxford or Cambridge. In the poor countries of Europe, where they cannot afford double sets of scholastic est...

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...ent of the maritime jurisdiction of Spain in the waters which surround the island of Cuba, has been debated without reaching an agree- ment, and it is... ...ny persons born in foreign 30 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven countries who have declared their intention to become citi- zens, or who ha... ...r the sole purpose of evad- ing duties imposed by the laws of their native countries, to which on becoming naturalized here they at once repair, and t... ... who, residing in Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Japan, China, and other Oriental countries, are charged with complex functions and extraordi- nary powers. T... ...n in some cases have been inflicted on the subjects or citizens of foreign countries, both at sea and on land, by persons in the service of the United... ...eneral) sent to the colored colony established by the United States at the island of Vache, on the coast of San Domingo, to bring back to this country... ...for colored persons around that city. Those only will be brought from the island who desire to return, and their effects will be brought with them. A... ...ION, WASHINGTON, April 20, 1864. CAL VIN TRUESDALE, ESQ., Postmaster, Rock Island, Ill.: Thomas J. Pickett, late agent of the Quartermaster ‘s Depart-... ...Thomas J. Pickett, late agent of the Quartermaster ‘s Depart- ment for the island of Rock Island, has been removed or sus- pended from that position o...

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..., And on his back a grove of pikes appears.” Waller’s Battle of the Summer Islands. “By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or ... ...ect millions peopling every wave: Gather’d in shoals immense, like floating islands, Led by mysterious instinct through that waste And trackless region... ...w, With swords, saws, spiral horns, or hooked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier wha... ...l occurred the horrid transactions we are about to relate, belonged to the island of Nantucket.” “Narrative of the Globe Mutiny, ” by Lay and Hussey, ... ...oused all my curiosity. Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these, with a... ...ng to flee from Him. He thinks that a ship made by men, will carry him into countries where God does not reign, but only the Captains of this earth. He... ...es to the east of the continent — those insulated, immemorial, unalterable countries, which even in these modern days still preserve much of the ghost... ...breaks against them in a surf of green surges. Then, again, in mountainous countries where the traveller is continually gir dled by amphitheatrical h... ...ke lifeless masses of rock than anything else. And as in the great hunting countries of India, the stranger at a distance will sometimes pass on the p...