Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1899 - Australia |
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Page 70 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 206 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 107 - We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one.
Page 137 - Calendar. Truth Is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.— Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
Page 297 - Nothing could be daintier than the puffs of vapor they spout up, when seen against the pink glory of the sinking sun, or against the dark mass of an island reposing in the deep blue shadow of a storm-cloud. . . . Great Barrier rock standing up out of the sea away to the left. Some time ago a ship hit it full speed in a fog — twenty miles out of her course — one hundred and forty lives lost; the captain committed suicide without waiting a moment. He knew that, whether he was to blame or not, the...
Page 202 - Cary, and who had behaved with much bravery during the siege (his wife, a fine woman though country born, would not quit him, but accompanied him into the prison, and was one who survived). This poor wretch had been long raving for water and air ; I told him I was determined to give up life, and recommended his gaining my station. On my quitting, he made a fruitless attempt to get my place ; but the Dutch Serjeant, who sat on my shoulder, supplanted him.
Page 357 - A round man cannot be expected to fit a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Page 175 - It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Page 238 - At length the smallest of them made an infantile attempt to get away. The little thing had been frightened past bearing by the murder of one of the surviving ladies. He thus attracted the observation of a native, who flung him and his companions down the well.
Page 84 - It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart, the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.