are alarming, but there are other times when they are entertaining- -and this is one of them. "Many...
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of appreciation which is generally wanting in most of us who are guided mainly by empty phrases req...
the very earth. He had steered that very course thirty- six times by the same compass--if anything ...
which would take him on board the Sofala. From afar Mr. Van Wyk saw Sterne blink straight at him a...
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help from men, after having been cast out, like a pre- sumptuous Titan, from his heaven. Mr. Van Wy...
and the vanity of human minds, those that the Muses would love best lie more than all others under ...
peace, of pacific joy, came over him. On deck all was quiet. Mr. Massy, with his ear against the d...
inextinguishable youth, of running waters, as applied to Mr. Henry James's inspiration, may be drop...
out your infernal rot loud enough when you are drunk. What do you mean by abusing people in that wa...
every twenty-five years--at the coming of every new and wiser generation. One of the most generous...
his coat, washed his hands. Then the air of guilt left him, and he sat down to wait. He sat bolt u...
against him." "It would be no use your saying anything against him," Captain Whalley affirmed a li...
pidity, forgot himself completely. His stony, unwink- ing stare was fixed on the planks of the deck...
an esteem that nothing can shake." A slight ring of glass made him lift his eyes from the slice of...