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...tanding. Human thought, fantasy, imagination, and emotions are nothing but electric currents and spurts of chemicals in the brain, they say. Holist... ...ers. This could be achieved benignly, for instance by colonizing space, or the ocean depths - both remote and technologically unfeasible possib... ...tanding. Human thought, fantasy, imagination, and emotions are nothing but electric currents and spurts of chemicals in the brain, they say. Holist... ...hing in ways unbeknown to us. We can only witness the results of these subterranean currents and deduce the existence of such currents from the obs...

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...tanding. Human thought, fantasy, imagination, and emotions are nothing but electric currents and spurts of chemicals in the brain, they say. Holist... ...ers. This could be achieved benignly, for instance by colonizing space, or the ocean depths - both remote and technologically unfeasible possib... ...tanding. Human thought, fantasy, imagination, and emotions are nothing but electric currents and spurts of chemicals in the brain, they say. Holist... ...hing in ways unbeknown to us. We can only witness the results of these subterranean currents and deduce the existence of such currents from the obs...

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...red by massive piles. Ducks were swimming in the clear mill-pond below the currents of wa- ter roaring over the wheel. As the poet came nearer he hear... ...that hero of an Eastern tale, the fisher who tried to drown himself in mid-ocean, and sank down to find himself a king of countries under the sea. The...

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...provements. The driving a pirate from the track of com- merce on the broad ocean, and the removing of a snag from its more narrow path in the Mississi... ...y west of our old purchase from France, and extended west to the Pa- cific Ocean, and was so situated that if the Missouri line should be extended str... ...truments 244 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two known in measuring currents. They timed them under vari- ous circumstances and they found the ... ...ere are cross cur- rents—that, as one witness says, there were three cross currents and two eddies; so far as mere statement, without experiment, and ... ...eriments of our witnesses? Can you believe that these floats go across the currents? It is inconceivable that they could not have discovered ev- ery p... ...they could not have discovered ev- ery possible current. How do boats find currents that floats cannot discover? We assume the position then that thos... ... that floats cannot discover? We assume the position then that those cross currents are not there. My next proposition is that the Afton passed betwee...

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... “My lands and my might have drifted away as drifts the ship on the ocean. My friends and my home I have left behind me, and bart... ...rettir dived beneath the fall. It was very difficult swimming because of the currents, and he had to dive to the bottom to get behind the fall. There ...

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..., of renewed nearness to changes and chances, refreshed sensibility to the currents of the market, would fall in with the consistency of wisdom, the p... ... the very train— ?” “The very one. Paddington—the 6.50 ‘in.’ That gives us oceans; we can dine, at the usual hour, at home; and as Maggie will of cour... ...pite of everything, represented him as still pulling wires and controlling currents, or rather indeed as muffling the whole possibility, keeping it dow... ... might appear to be wondering what, for instance: “I see the long miles of ocean and the dreadful great country, State after State—which have never se...

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...d be named, and yet the history of all three has given rise to a boundless ocean of discussion, which has left us little save the option of choosing w... ... the expense of the most ennobling impulses of the soul; and to forget the ocean in the contemplation of a polypus. There is a catholicity, so to spea... ... and resumes my prize.” Far from the deep recesses of the main, Where aged Ocean holds his watery reign, The goddess-mother heard. The waves divide; A... ...he swelling sails; The milk-white canvas bellying as they blow, The parted ocean foams and roars below: Above the bounding billows swift they flew, Ti... ...esert the ships, and pour upon the plain. Murmuring they move, as when old ocean roars, And heaves huge surges to the trembling shores; The groaning b... ...s fiery-helm’d, the laughter-loving dame, Xanthus, whose streams in golden currents flow, And the chaste huntress of the silver bow. 369 Pope Ere yet...

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...d, rather astonished. “Because this liquid mass would be subject, like the ocean, to the lunar attraction, and therefore twice every day there would b... ...ich the sea dashed furiously. The Westman islets seemed to rise out of the ocean like a group of rocks in a liquid plain. From that time the schooner ... ...ets of snow, reminded one of a stormy sea. If I looked westward, there the ocean lay spread out in all its magnifi- cence, like a mere continuation of... ...nd those fifty leagues 113 Jules Verne bring us under the wide expanse of ocean.” “Under the sea,” my uncle repeated, rubbing his hands with delight.... ...cle repeated, rubbing his hands with delight. “Can it be?” I said. “Is the ocean spread above our heads?” “Of course, Axel. What can be more natural? ... ...derate height, formed like umbrellas, with exact geometrical outlines. The currents of wind seemed to have had no effect upon their shape, and in the ... ...hat they cannot rise from the horizon; but, obeying an impulse from higher currents, their dense consistency slowly yields. The gloom upon them deepen... ...e of time our speed redoubled. I could perceive it by the sharpness of the currents that blew past my face. The descent became steeper. I believe we w... ...ent parts, the agitation caused by great liquid torrents, and the magnetic currents, are continually tending to disturb it—even when living beings upo...

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...r. Did you ever try to have a sociable improving time discussing winds, and currents and variations of com pass with an undertaker?” “I get your id... ... and in a second we were at the reception place. We stood on the edge of the ocean of space, and looked out over the dim ness, but couldn’t make out ...

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...pect from the fifty thousand houses of Paris. At the foot of Montmartre an ocean of slate roofs lies in motionless blue billows; at Ingouville the sea... ... which rushed to die along the shore while with her eyes fixed on the wide ocean she gave herself up to the joy of having (if we dare say so) harpoone... ...g the flowers. The blind woman turned her wan and blighted face toward the ocean; she inhaled the odors of the sea and took the hand of her daughter w... ... outwardly deformed subjects as it were a storage-battery, where the nerve currents accumu- late more abundantly than under normal conditions,—where t... ...- lions,” some one said in Rouen; “and it seems he was made a count in mid-ocean.” “But he was the Comte de La Bastie before the Revolu- tion,” answer...

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...the ship, or be in the utmost distress in their boat, in the middle of the ocean; which, at present, as it was dark, I could not see. However, to dire... ...ntrary. I shall trouble nobody with the little incidents of wind, weather, currents, &c., on the rest of our voyage; but to shorten my story, shall ob... ...th stronger things than bars or bolts; on the north side, an un- navigable ocean, where ship never sailed, and boat never swam; every other way we hav...

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...ded T om, shading the chamber candle with her hand, to protect it from the currents of air which in such a rambling old place might have found plenty ... ...elements, and echoed, and re echoed till it seemed to pierce air, sky, and ocean. But what was that—that old gray head that rose above the water’s sur... ...ye along the glorious crimson path, which, commencing in the middle of the ocean, seemed to lead to its very verge where the sun was setting, when the...

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...e mouth of the Indus, he sent his ships to survey the coasts of the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf, while he himself marched along the shore of the pro... ...sed gods of the two great rivers, Rhine and Rhone, and even of the captive Ocean, made in gold, were carried along, with pictures framed in citron woo... ...t either a crocodile or a python might have been brought over by storms or currents from Africa, and have grown to a more formidable size than usual i...

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...is arms, he shunned books, shunned speech, and resembled a castaway on the ocean, with nothing between himself and his calamity. As for the world, it ... ... not to take notice of it, I think.” “What is it we are at the mercy of?” “Currents of feeling, our natures. I am the last man to preach on the subjec... ...s, move women, thought she. Would women do an injury to one they loved for oceans of that— ah, pah! And women must respect men. They necessarily respe... ...stes of all three. Crossjay’s prospective connection with the myste- rious ocean bestowed the title of captain on him by com- mon consent; he led them... ... or any subject. I am, I think you once quoted, ‘tossed like a weed on the ocean.’ Of myself I can speak: I cannot speak for a second person. I am inf... ... about the same for a storm or a calm, and not too handsome, thanks to the ocean. It’s an age since we encountered last, colonel: on board the Dublin ... ...to his lead, distinctly per- ceiving where its drift divided to the forked currents of what might be in his mind and what was in hers. “Miss Middleton... ...lf a fool!” “And for years, dear Mr. Dale, this union, in spite of counter-currents and human arrangements, has been our Willoughby’s constant preoccu...

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... and how I was a Prisoner lock’d up with the Eternal Bars and Bolts of the Ocean, in an uninhabited Wilderness, without Redemption: In the midst of th... ...ne of my Earthen Pots; but what was all this to being driven into the vast Ocean, where to be sure, there was no Shore, no main Land, or Island, for a... ... from my beloved Island (for so it appear’d to me now to be) into the wide Ocean, almost two Leagues, and in the utmost Despair of ever recovering it ... ...nd serv’d me no farther. However, I found that being between the two great Currents, (viz.) that on the South Side which had hurried me away, and that... ...e, I was so apprehensive of being hurry’d out of my Knowledge again by the Currents, or Winds, or any other Accident. But now I come to a new Scene of... ... me, who had wander’d out to Sea in their Canoes; and either driven by the Currents, or by contrary Winds had made the Island; and had been on Shore, ... ...ished from human Society, that I was alone, circumscrib’d by the boundless Ocean, cut off from Mankind, and condemn’d to what I call’d silent Life; th... ...the least Appearance, not only on, or near the Shore; but not on the whole Ocean, so far as my Eyes or Glasses could reach every Way. As long as I kep... ...ve which I found under some high Rocks, and where I knew, by Reason of the Currents, the Savages durst not, at least would not come with their Boats, ...

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...tent and staringly comprehensible. In itself, it is a great and travailing ocean, unsounded, unvoyageable, an eternal mystery to man; or, let us say, ... ...e end and frontier of the island. Only in one spot there projects into the ocean a certain tri- angular and rugged down, grassy, stony, windy, and ris... ...n, by impercep- tible degrees, to separate towards either shore in dancing currents, and to leave the middle clear and stagnant. The set towards eithe... ... he had looked for some time at the fine and shifting demarcation of these currents, ‘come here and see me try my fortune.’ ‘I am not like a man,’ sai... ...iefly, was an apathetic fascination, partly of horror; as of Europa in mid ocean with her bull. On the 10th November 1749 there sat two of the foreign...