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...t is not the less true; and, being mon- strous, it will yet be recorded in history, that the Scottish church has split into mortal feuds upon two poin... ... out of moral forces. And it may be well, therefore, rapidly to sketch the history of religion, which is the greatest of moral forces, as it sank and ... ...ad never enjoyed a fraction. It was a movement per saltum, beyond all that history has recorded. At cock-crow they had no power at all; when the sun w... ...cept that the sleeves are want- ing; and during the first period of Jewish history, it was prob- ably worn as the sole under-garment by women of all r... ...tion, as I humbly trust, within a thousand years. The whole vast series of history is become a wilderness to me; and my mind, as to all such absurd kn... ...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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...e assault is thoroughly desperate. Had De Tocqueville lived to examine the history of the United States from 1860 to 1870, his misgivings as to this p... ... the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history. Let us recollect the situation of France seven hundred years ago, ... ...kest could always find weapons to their hand. In perusing the pages of our history, we shall scarcely meet with a single great event, in the lapse of ... ...ive development of social equality is at once the past and future of their history, this solitary truth would confer the sacred character of a Divine ... ...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 ... ...of seamen, and they have nothing which corresponds to the French system of maritime conscription; the navy, as well as the merchant service, is suppli... ...y service. But it is not easy to conceive how a people can sustain a great maritime war without having recourse to one or the other of these two syste...

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...nd other belligerent operations, between the Government and several of the maritime powers, but they have been discussed, and, as far as was possible,... ...ality of their adjudications, have commanded the respect and confidence of maritime powers. The supplemental treaty between the United States and Grea... ...f the country. A novel and important question, involving the extent of the maritime jurisdiction of Spain in the waters which surround the island of C... ...MICHAEL HAHN. MY DEAR SIR:—I congratulate you on having fixed your name in history as the first free-state governor of Louisiana. Now, you are about t... ...of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and re- vere the justice and ... ...I am responsible for it to the American people, to the Christian world, to history, and in my final account to God. Having determined to use the negr... ...xample. The distinguished part which you, Mr. Minister, have acted in the history of that interesting country, is well known here. It gives me pleas... ...in our country. It is possible that if it were a new and open question the maritime powers, with the lights they now enjoy, would not concede the priv... ...in foreign wars. The desire and determination of the gov- ernments of the maritime states to defeat that design are be- lieved to be as sincere as an...

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...e how much it means to a nation to have as the two foremost figures in its history men like Washington and Lincoln. It is good for every man in any wa... ...is a very poor thing, whether for nations or individu- als, to advance the history of great deeds done in the past as an excuse for doing poorly in th... ...for doing poorly in the present; but it is an excellent thing to study the history of the great deeds of the past, and of the great men who did them, ... ...ecause he cannot accomplish the impossible. In the fifth volume of Lecky’s History of England, the historian draws an interesting distinction between ... ...ary hero born and reared in a log cabin is a famil- iar figure in American history; but we may search in vain among our celebrities for one whose orig... ...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 ...

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...rchs hath a happy something in them, which vanishes away when we come to the history of Jewish royalty. Government by kings was first introduced into ... ...ins of the Jews, for which a curse in reserve is denounced against them. The history of that transaction is worth attending to. The children of Israel... ...as a proof that the above estimation of the navy is just. [See Entic’s naval history, intro. page 56.] The charge of building a ship of each rate, and... ...e common work of a ship. Wherefore, we never can be more capable to begin on maritime matters than now, while our tim ber is standing, our fisheries ... ...Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. And history sufficiently informs us, that the bravest achieve ments were alw... ...is; and although the progress which she hath made stands unparalleled in the history of other nations, it is but childhood, com pared with what she w...

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...unt of Cook: I have no doubt it is entirely fair. Take Krusenstern’s candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; co... ...sians than a stranger might have guessed; and yet how bald it is at best! I asked the brother if he did not tell them stories, and he stared at me; if... ... equivalent. It is a pleasant society, and a hospitable. But one man, who was often to be seen seated on the logs at the pier-head, merits a word for ... ... profits, save the Government at Papeete—the not very enviable gentlemen who pay them, and the Chinese underlings who do the dirty work. CHAPTER IX—TH... ... cannibal wars. Through these events and changing dynasties, a single considerable figure may be seen to move: that of the high chief, a king, Temoana... ...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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...n whose service you command (and whose fleet alone makes them a third-rate maritime power in Europe) should appoint a few admirals in their navy, I ho... ...ublic edifices were erected. It seems to me to have been the period in all history when society was the least natural, and perhaps the most dis- solut... ...nset with a pleased, withered old face, he gave me a little account of his history. I take it he is in nowise disinclined to talk about it, simple as ... ...is princely income. Is it breaking a confidence to tell Lieutenant Bundy’s history? Let the motive excuse the deed. It is a good, kind, wholesome, and... ... full of good old books (none of your works of modern science, travel, and history, but good old useless books of the last two centuries), and nobody ... ...or pelting Aristides with holy oyster-shells—all for Virtue’s sake; and a “History of Dulness in all Ages of the World,” is a book which a philosopher... ...where we were welcomed by the very best captain that ever sailed upon this maritime globe, namely, Captain Samuel Lewis, of the Peninsular and Orienta...

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...resolute sound, ought to be good enough for the newspapers of the greatest maritime country in the world. “The fleet anchored at Spithead”: can anyone... ... of to-mor- row, already entered upon the possession of their inheritance. History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed awa... ...ny homes ashore, and opens the door of speculation in the market of risks. Maritime risks, be it understood. There is a class of optimists ready to re... ...p and ceremony, but an anxious business progress at a crisis of na- tional history. The menace of that time has passed away, and now Tilbury is known ... ...very good. We touched, in our discourse, upon sci- ence, politics, natural history, and operatic singers. Then, after remarking abruptly, “You seem to... ...at leg- end of the Mediterranean, the legend of traditional song and grave history, lives, fascinating and immor- tal, in our minds. The dark and fear... ...prisoned in the house of personal illusions, thirty centuries in mankind’s history seem less to look back upon than thirty years of our own life. And ...

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...ths on this earth are humble, not heroic; and there have been times in the history of mankind when the ac- cents of heroic truth have moved it to noth... ...xistence only seven chap- ters of “Almayer’s Folly,” but the chapter in my history which followed was that of a long, long illness and very dismal con... ... rendered forever famous by the termi- nation of the eighth chapter in the history of Almayer’s decline and fall. The events of the ninth are inextric... ...verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history. Provi- dence which saved my MS. from the Congo rapids brought it ... ... im- pulse at the end of a longish conversation whose subject was Gibbon’s History. Jacques (that was his name) was sitting in my cabin one stormy dog... ...rdens of V ersailles, and Mon- sieur de Colbert busy with the direction of maritime affairs. Y ou must admit that in a banker of the nineteenth centur...

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...s on this earth are humble, not he- roic: and there have been times in the history of man- kind when the accents of heroic truth have moved it to noth... ...xistence only seven chapters of “Almayer’s Folly,” but the chap- ter in my history which followed was that of a long, long illness and very dismal con... ...rendered for ever famous by the termi- nation of the eighth chapter in the history of Almayer’s decline and fall. The events of the ninth are inextric... ...similitude of se- lected episodes puts to shame the pride of documen- tary history? Providence which saved my MS. from the Congo rapids brought it to ... ... impulse at the end of a longish conver- sation whose subject was Gibbon’s History. Jacques (that was his name) was sitting in my cabin one stormy dog... ... gardens of Versailles, and Monsieur de Colbert busy with the direction of maritime affairs. You must admit that in a banker of the nineteenth century...

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...son named Scott early in the last century— a curious book of narratives of maritime adventures, with exceedingly quaint illustrations. Nothing has eve... ...h renegade, who treated her well, and to whom she gave her watch. Algerine history confirms what is said of his treatment. Louis XIV. had bombarded th... ...ut sent seven men on board the prize and took it in tow. Curiously enough, history mentions the very tempest which drove the tartane apart from her ca... ...account of these captors was a great difficulty, till in the old Universal History I found a description of Algeria which tallied wonderfully with the... ... All this perfectly explains the sufferings of Mademoiselle de Bourke. The history of the plundering, the threats, the savage treatment of the corpses... ... adventures. The account of the Marabout system comes from the Uni- versal History; but the arrival, the negotiations, and the de- sire of the sheyk t...

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...e tell you, that all these things are prepared for you by the teachings of history, if the elections shall promise that the next Dred Scott decision a... ...ore or less violence ever since the Revolution. Then we need not appeal to history, to the declarations of the framers of the government, but we know ... ...the adoption of the Constitution down to 1820 is the precise period of our history when we had comparative peace upon this question,—the precise pe- r... ...would read that article, but I now believe I will: “This exposition of the history of these measures shows con- clusively that the authors of the Comp... ... the judge saw that putting in the word “slavery” would contradict his own history, he put in what he knew would pass synonymous with it,”internal pol... ...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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...he most astounding incident in the whole of that dramatic chapter of human history, the coming of flying, occurred. People talk glibly enough of epoch... ...ying power of from seventy to two hundred tons. How many Germany possessed history does not record, but Bert counted nearly eighty great bulks recedin... ... the paradox of the time. It was a period altogether unique in the world’s history. The apparatus of warfare, the, art and method of fighting, changed... ... thrilled with the sense that now her mo- ment had come. Once again in the history of progress it seemed she held the decisive weapon. Now she might s... ...of the air- ship and the last fight of those strangest things in the whole history of war: the ironclad battleships, which began their ca- reer with t... ...- ture, for example, in the grim intensity,of her political method, in her maritime and commercial ascendancy. But she repeated no previous state at a...

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...man phenomena, also vir- gin—at least to poetry—which here took place, the history of which it is our purpose to relate. If one of these inlets, mere ... ...ing the terrestrial grandeurs of Norway, and of enshrining the scenes of a history that is indeed celestial. The general outline of the Strom-fiord se... ...able, or by sea where none but tiny boats can thread their way through the maritime defiles that guard the entrance to the bay, hinder these people fr... ... In fact, a wealthy Swede settled in Jarvis about thirty years before this history begins, and did his best to ameliorate its condition. This little h... ... she receives no one. From the very first day I have longed to ask you the history of this mysterious being. On that day began, for me, a series of en... ...e actions of a living humanity. He knew the present and the past,—a double history; that of to- day, that of other days. Many men have been, like Wilf...

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...kin hats, a pretty steady influx of drunken bargemen, and a great many other maritime advantages. There is a good deal of water about Mudfog, and yet ... ...ording, at an enormous expense, and by dint of exertions unnpralleled in the history of periodical publication, the proceedings of the Mudfog Associat... ...eets of the metropolis, until not one remained to create a taste for natural history in the breasts of the poor and uninstructed. Mudfog and Other Ske... ...ment. ‘PROFESSOR MULL doubted very much whether any correct ideas of natural history were propagated by the means to which the honourable member had s...

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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... ...ish Museum and descanted upon the antiquities and the specimens of natural history there, so that audiences would gather round him as he spoke, and al... ...le arms the tottering, heart-broken old man. We are not going to write the history: it would be too dreary and stupid. I can see V anity Fair yawning ... ...bbin of what we know already, 89 Thackeray but of particulars in Amelia’s history of which he was not aware —namely of Mrs. Sedley’s death, of George... ...uth, looking after the retreating young couple, while Miss Mary told their history; but he did not hear beyond the announcement of the reverend gentle... ...uine tears of sorrow as any that have been outpoured in the course of this history. In their long acquaintanceship and intimacy they could not recall ...

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..., in the course of centuries, united the crowned families of Grunewald and Maritime Bohemia; and the last Prince of Grunewald, whose history I purpose... ...of Grunewald and Maritime Bohemia; and the last Prince of Grunewald, whose history I purpose to relate, drew his descent through Perdita, the only dau... ...,’ he went on. ‘The papers of an author seized at this date of the world’s history, in a state so petty and so ignorant as Grunewald, here is indeed a... ...amily ties and affections to confine her liberty.’ These singular views of history, strictly ad usum seraphinae, did not weave their usual soothing sp... ...d the Baron, ‘your Highness is so imperfectly acquainted with the internal history of this correspondence, that any inter- ference will be merely hurt... ...h the sweetest politeness. ‘May I beg of him to complete the phrase?’ ‘The history of the revolution,’ replied Otto dryly. ‘And now,’ he added, ‘what ...

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...y brawling stream descended from the moor amid rocks and brushwood. If the history of the place were told, it had been built for a shooting box, then ... ...y one or two observations had betrayed so much ignorance alike of Samuel’s history and of the Gospel of St. Luke, that she had resolved to endeavour a... ...was not pos- sible while a missionary memoir was being read aloud, but the history of Mother Constance, once Lady Herbert Somerville, but then head at... ...nd she was his mother, and they both were martyrs. I will tell you all the history,” began Paula; but Agatha interposed. “Y ou must like having him do... ...uscript and began to read his ballad, if so it was to be called, being the history of the little boy of four years old, who, being taken with his moth... ...kers to boot was a novelty. However, prizes were the natural sequence of a maritime exploit, and he was happy to distribute them to the maidens about ...

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...upposed it—a simple reca- pitulation, or resumé, of the Roman imperatorial history. It moves rapidly over the ground, but still with an exploring eye,... ...ath- ered so thickly over the one solitary road 5 traversing that part of history. Glimpses of moral truth, or suggestions of what may lead to it; in... ...imagined, any liter- ary valuation of Cicero; it is a new reading of Roman history in the most dreadful and comprehensive of her convulsions, in that ... ...venth century of our era, when Mahometanism arose, there was no collateral history. Why there was none, why no Gothic, why no Parthian history, it is ... ... his own charges was clear, because he never repeated them in his “General History of the Campaigns,” which was a resumé, or recapitulating digest, of... ...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... ...(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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...ing the sea before him into a foam.” Tooke’s Lucian. Extracts 5 “The True History. ” “He visited this country also with a view of catching horse whal... ... an incredible quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale.” Ibid. “History of Life and Death. ” “The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti... ...asture where our children’s grand children will go for bread.” Obed Macy’s History of Nantucket. “I built a cottage for Susan and myself and made a ga... ...st convenient opportunities of witnessing their habitudes.” Thomas Beale’s History of the Sperm Whale, 1839. 12 Extracts “The Cachalot” (Sperm Whale)... ...ing forth even beneath February’s snow. No one having previously heard his history, could for the first time behold Father Mapple without the utmost in... ... engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led. When he entered I observed that he carried no umb... ...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... ...ed by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dot...