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...ere dining in a small river-hostelry not more than thirty miles from London, and less than twenty from that shallow and dangerous puddle to which our coasting men give the grandiose name of ?German Ocean.? And through the wide windows we had a view of the Thames; an enfilading view down the Lower Hope Reach. But the dinner was execrable, and all the feast was for the eyes....

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..., and less than twenty from that shallow and dangerous puddle to which our coasting men give the grandiose name of “German Ocean.” And through the wid... ...n and settle down to a smoking match, accompanied at long intervals by the pacific exchange of a few words. I came nearly every 9 Joseph Conrad eveni... ...les down the river you had to go behind him, and then three more along the coast to where a group of uninhabited rocky islets en- closed a sheltered a... ...a very intensely blue sea. There was nothing to look at besides but a bare coast, the muddy edge of the brown plain with the sinuosities of the river ... ..., running away, away between stretches of decaying masonry, bamboo fences, ranges of arcades of brick and plas- ter, hovels of lath and mud, lofty tem... ...one would have known enough to think of despatching a cargo steamer to the Pacific. But he loaded her with pitch-pine deals and sent her off to hunt f...

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...the course of twenty-four hours, and crept 33 Sir W alter Scott along the coast eastwards, amusing myself with looking out for objects of antiquity, ... ... a tacksman or lessee of some valuable salmon- fisheries a little down the coast. But mistake me not. The evil of angling, with which I class all spor... ... his time. Amongst the more important of these is a fishing station on the coast, where, by certain improved modes of erecting snares, opening at the ... ... was the less matter.’ ‘Peace! prithee, peace, Job Rutledge,’ said honest, pacific Mr. Trumbull. ‘I wish thou couldst remember, man, that I desire to ... ...an to become steady, how shall I describe what I beheld? Beneath were huge ranges of tables, occupied by princes and nobles in their robes of state—hi...

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...in whom the natural quarrelsome spirit began to speak more loudly than his pacific resolutions. “I am from Gascony, it is true; and since you know it,... ...let of Porthos, from Grimaud to Mousqueton. Mousqueton was a Norman, whose pacific name of Boniface his master had changed into the infinitely more so... ...he morrow, at break of day, they were still three or four leagues from the coast of England. The breeze had been so light all night, they had made but... ... further, the sea, very rough at this period of the year all along the sea coast, destroyed every day some 414 The Three Musketeers little vessel; an... ..., had been tempted to throw herself into the sea that she might regain the coast, for she could not get rid of the thought that she had been insulted ... ...ose most after God’s own heart, hesitate to answer for themselves, and who ranges himself on the side of the strongest and the most fortunate, to crus...

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...oughout the passage, and thence- forward across all the States, and on to the shores of the Pacific, this knowledge grew more clear and melancholy. Em... ...T yne, and was married to a Scots wife. A fisher- man in the season, he had fished the east coast from Fisherrow to Whitby. When the season was over, ... ...s, he would find time to warn Alick of an approaching officer, or even to tell him that the coast was clear, and he might slip off and smoke a pipe in... ...ing, at breakfast, I communicated to the smart waitress my intention of continuing down the coast and through Whitehaven to Furness, and, as I might h... ...es and falls behind another; and if you climb an eminence, it is only to see new and father ranges behind these. Many little rivers run from all sides...

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... Baltic with its amber spume, The Caspian with its frozen mouth; The broad Pacific, basking bright, And girdling lands of lustrous growth, Vast contin... ...vered, He whispers often to the passing winds That blow toward the Asiatic coasts; For Crete has sent her bravest to the war, And multitudes pressed f... ...looms round her fair garden run In climbers or in creepers or the tree She ranges with unerring fingers fine, T o harmony so vivid that through sight ... ...he hushed mouths of all. It had resemblance to a death: and on, Against a coast where sapphire shattered white, The seasons rolled like troops of bil...

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...little rick, with its thatch straw-ridged and extra straw-ridged into overlapping compartments like the back of a rhinoceros. Had I not given a lift o... ...me before I could sever myself from the many interesting papers on the table, and then I broke bread and drank wine with the kind family before I left... ...hey may! but I doubt if they will ever do their Master’s service half so well, in all the time they last, as the Heavens have seen it done in this ble... ...almost believe I could not be taken in there, if I tried. In the places of business of the great tailors, the cheval-glasses are dim and dusty for lac... ...ear to be very much astonished by what they find on these native shores of ours. Possibly the parrots don’t know, possibly they do, that Down by the D... ...to bring them into collision? Thoughts, too, arise (the voice never silent all the while, but marvellously suggestive) of the gulf below; of the stran...

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...t you must try to overlook that, because I have never had any experience of such a swell duel as this before. I have had a good deal to do with duels ... ...st try to overlook that, because I have never had any experience of such a swell duel as this before. I have had a good deal to do with duels on the P... ... the sweeter kind. Digging, three days agone, I struck a manure mine!—a Golconda, a limitless Bonanza, of solid manure! I can buy you all, and have mo... ...se if left to their own devices. This is an argument of some value in support of the theory that they were the original colonists of the wild islands ... ... of Public Instruction, and all the teachers, and by more than two hun- dred other people. Now I want you, if you’ll be so good, to go around with me ... ...serve in rota- tion; you cannot select the man who is to take your life into his hands, you must take the worst in the lot, if it is his turn. A guide... ...raction, being subsidiary to atmospheric compensation, the refrangibility of the earth’s surface would emphasize this effect in regions where great mo...

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... cutting in the sand-hills, through which one caught a glimpse of the open Pacific. The station at B Street was solitary; no trains passed at this hou... ...furnishing floors of the great de- partment houses, inspecting and pricing ranges, hardware, china, and the like. They rented the photographer’s rooms... ... and, turning the Point here, come out suddenly upon the full sweep of the Pacific. Then he would follow the beach down to a certain point of rocks th... ...ined the position of care- taker in a little memorial kindergarten over on Pacific Street. Like Polk Street, it was an accommodation street, but runni... ...ico,” he muttered to himself. “Mexico, that’s the place. They’ll watch the coast and they’ll watch the East- ern trains, but they won’t think of Mexic... ...ff, across a range of hills, was the Panamint Valley, where the big cattle ranges were. Every now and then this name was tossed to and fro across the ... ...ndence, the nearest large town, found its way into the cattle camps on the ranges, and occasionally one of the Sunday editions of a Sacramento journal...

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...ll-droning eloquence, like a Trump of Doom, once shook the world, there is pacific chaffering for poul- try and greens. The sacred National Assembly H... ...t must be rammed down there, and shaped stair-wise into as many as ‘thirty ranges of conve- nient seats, ’ firm-trimmed with turf, covered with enduri... ...nd all Patriots: let there be mutual pardon and repen- tance, restoration, pacification, and if so might any how be, an end! Which vote ultimately pre... ... Chiffonne, without bloodshed; restores the pavement of Arles. He sails in Coast-barks, this Rebecqui, scrutinising suspicious Martello-towers, with t... ...hem, Barbaroux says ‘with tears:’ they consider what Rivers, what Mountain ranges are in it: they will retire behind this Loire-stream, defend these A... ...d rage: that was the end of the New Era, and of all Eras, to poor Duhamel. Pacific readers can fancy what sort of grace-before-meat this was to frugal...

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...er for her brother, the lieutenant in command of a gun-boat on the Chinese coast. Those letters, whether from Norman May or his wife, were very deligh... ...r the cliffs, and looking mysterious on distant 49 Yo n g e points of the coast; stars were shining forth in the pale blue sky, and the young moon sh... ..., and come home no more. And really, as the time wanes, I feel that such a coast is Elysium—above all, the boating. The lazy charm, the fresh purity o... ..., having been built by a wealthy yeoman of Queen Anne’s time, and had long ranges of square-headed sash win- dows, surmounted by a pediment, carved wi... ...ortsmouth this morning, and he tells me he is to go out in the Clio to the Pacific station, and would apply for me as his first lieutenant, if I liked... ...rant it though he might; and he was hurried on to the vast kitchens, their ranges of coppers full of savoury steaming contents, and their racks of loa...

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...st inventions:—French brains are always alert:— and in fact, those kitchen-ranges, gas and coal, and the ap- paratus for warming plates and dishes, th... ...llan at night that Mrs. Burman, he had heard, was by the sea, on the South coast. Which of her maladies might be in the ascendant, he did not know. He... ...ratitude. She nodded an excellent artificial brightness. And there was the coast of France under young sunlight over the waters. Once more her oft-pet... ...lphica draws Mr. Semhians aside. Blushing over his white necktie, like the coast of Labrador at the transient wink of its Jack-in-the-box Apollo, Mr. ... ...for his Rival Tongues,—and the last number was funny, with Semhians on the Pacific, impressively addressing a farewell to his cricket- bat, before he ...

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...ment from St. Sebastian’s, the doubling of Cape Horn, the shipwreck on the coast of Peru, the rescue of the royal banner from the Indians of Chili, th... ... traditional name of lion, as though the Cape lion were such as that which ranges the torrid zone. Horses had formed the natural and introductory topi... ...rcuit of six hundred. For example, in Asia Minor, all the way from the sea coast to the Euphrates, towns were scattered having a dense population of J... ...nal views was obvious to everybody in that neighborhood. Parga, on the sea-coast, was an indispensable ally to Suli; now, Prevesa stood in the same re... ...once established, would offer a ready opening to some measure of permanent pacification, it could not be surprising that the natural hopefulness of th... ..., and to the weight which such alli- ances would procure them in a general pacification. And hence, in the war which both combined to make upon the fo... ...ealed. Paulina felt so much relieved at beholding this pledge of the man’s pacific intentions, that she eagerly pressed her purse into his hand, and w... ...ere both easily traced out by means of the lights gleaming from their long ranges of upper win- dows. A particular turret, which sprung to an almost a...

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...ly bent back against a broken and twisted rainwater pipe, an expression of pacific contentment on his face, a bamboo curtain rod with a tableknife tie... ...oming up suddenly; and then one turned to scan the little different French coast villages, and 97 H G Wells then, sliding by in a pale sunshine came ... ...h’s conversation, conversation that is casual and discursive in form, that ranges carelessly from triviality to immensity, and yet is constantly resum... ... light, behind this nearer landscape, and the southward waters with remote coast towns shining dimly, waters that merged at last in a luminous golden ...

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...d about and casting black blots of shade; and beyond the valleys we saw the ranges of hills, blue with haze, stretching away in billowy perspective t... ...soon as they got permission. CHAPTER XVII. A ROYAL BANQUET MADAME, SEEING ME PACIFIC AND UNRESENTFUL, no doubt judged that I was deceived by her excus... ... failure in the kingdom. Whenever he ordered up the danger signals along the coast there was a week’s dead calm, sure, and every time he prophesied f... ...ruising about, and after a fortnight of this we stepped ashore on the French coast, and the doctors thought it would be a good idea to make something ...

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...l and apple orchards, the Great Northern and wheat- plateaus, the Southern Pacific and orange groves. 62 Babbitt They talked to the secretary of the ... ...hem that they were set not as verse but as prose. Mr. Frink was known from Coast to Coast as “Chum.” With them were six wives, more or less—it was har... ...nothing to do. Though they had few servants, yet with gas stoves, electric ranges and dish- washers and vacuum cleaners, and tiled kitchen walls, thei...

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...olence. 23 Sir Walter Scott CHAPTER III Then (sad relief!) from the bleak coast that hears The German Ocean roar, deep-blooming, strong, And yellow h... ...he secret paths of the forest, known as well to me as to any forester that ranges it, and I will not leave you till you are under safe conduct of some... ... the danger incurred by the champions engaged. Having intimated their more pacific purpose, the champi- ons retreated to the extremity of the lists, w... ...hee comfort to know it, that Ulrica is bound to the 284 Ivanhoe same dark coast with thyself, the companion of thy punish- ment as the companion of t... ... and rising of course regularly above each other. These four perpendicular ranges of windows admitted air, and, the fire being kindled, heat, or smoke...

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...he prairies, blooming and smiling and spreading till it stops at the green Pacific! A strong, sweet, fresh odour seems to rise from it, and Henrietta—... ...ter she had ceased 108 The Portrait of a Lady speaking. “I’m not sure the Pacific’s so green as that,” he said; “but you’re a young woman of imaginat... ...irl noticed, “if you are I’m awfully sold!” The charm of the Mediterranean coast only deepened for our heroine on acquaintance, for it was the thresho... ... career appeared to stretch beneath it in the disposed vistas and with the ranges of steps and ter- races and fountains of a formal Italian garden—all...

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...o idea, poor wretch, of the spiritual des titution of a coral reef in the Pacific or what it costs to look up the precious souls among the coco nuts ... ...n the baths of Germany, and sprinkled on the sea sand all over the English coast. Scarcely one is to be encountered in the deserted region of Chancery... ...lk over old times with the whole Bagnet family, according to their various ranges of experience. Through these means it comes to pass that Mr. George ... ...oreground and figures ready drawn for anything from a wreck on the Cornish coast to a review in Hyde Park or a meeting in Manchester, and in Mrs. Perk...

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...o idea, poor wretch, of the spiritual des titution of a coral reef in the Pacific or what it costs to look up the precious souls among the coco nuts ... ...n the baths of Germany, and sprinkled on the sea sand all over the English coast. Scarcely one is to be encountered in the deserted region of Chancery... ...lk over old times with the whole Bagnet family, according to their various ranges of experience. Through these means it comes to pass that Mr. George ... ...oreground and figures ready drawn for anything from a wreck on the Cornish coast to a review in Hyde Park or a meeting in Manchester, and in Mrs. Perk...

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... 1830, — to survey the shores of Chile, Peru, and of some is- lands in the Pacific—and to carry a chain of chronometrical measurements round the World... ...ships when sev- eral hundred, and even more than a thousand miles from the coast of Africa, and at points sixteen hun- dred miles distant in a north a... ...in the face of the sea cliff, may be seen running for some miles along the coast, and at the height of about forty-five feet *I must take this opportu... ...merous shells embedded, most or all of which now exist on the neighbouring coast. It rests on an- cient volcanic rocks, and has been covered by a stre... ...act, that all the many small islands, lying far from any continent, in the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans, with the exception of the Seychelles ... ...astly man, taking possession of the coral islets as soon as formed, in the Pacific, is probably not correct; I fear it destroys the poetry of this sto... ...ot only abuts against its steep sides, but likewise separates the parallel ranges. The uniformity of the colouring gives an extreme quietness to the v... ...ical distribution of the infusoria, which are well known to have very wide ranges, that all the species in this substance, although brought from the e... ...ack ragged sheets of vapour were rap- idly driven. The successive mountain ranges ap- peared like dim shadows, and the setting sun cast on the woodlan...

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... closely, but unequally, related to each other, and in having re- stricted ranges. Chapter III Struggle for Existence Bears on natural selection — The... ...ns of all the beings which live around us. Who can explain why one species ranges widely and is very numer- ous, and why another allied species has a ... ... closely, but unequally, related to each other, and in having re- stricted ranges. BEFORE APPLYING the principles arrived at in the last chapter to or... ...f geol- ogy;’ but we now very seldom hear the action, for instance, of the coast-waves, called a trifling and in- significant cause, when applied to t... ...coloured under a clear atmosphere, than when living on islands or near the coast. So with insects, Wollaston is convinced that residence near the sea ... ...righter-coloured than those of islands. The insect-species confined to sea-coasts, as every collector knows, are often brassy 125 Charles Darwin or l... ...r should we be justified in assuming that if, for instance, the bed of the Pacific Ocean were now converted into a continent, we should there find for... ... kind, and as soon as this is passed we meet in the eastern islands of the Pacific, with another and totally dis- tinct fauna. So that here three mari... ...ill further westward from the eastern islands of the tropical parts of the Pacific, we encounter no impass- able barriers, and we have innumerable isl...

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...ohn Donaldson, and was always talking to me of his adventures in the South Pacific Ocean. I used frequently to go home with him, and remain all day, a... ...n to believe, with air-boxes, in the manner of some life-boats used on the coast of Wales. After searching in vain for about the period of time just m... ...he land, or come sufficiently near to be fallen in with by vessels off the coast. All sail was now put upon the brig, and she continued her original c... ...upon pursuing the course origi- nally laid out for the brig into the South Pacific; there either to take whale, or act otherwise, as circumstances sho... ... of novelty and amusement to be found among the innumerable islands of the Pacific, on the perfect security and freedom from all re- straint to be enj... ... own experience, have arisen from neglect or ignorance in this particular. Coasting vessels, in the frequent hurry and bustle attendant upon taking in... ...or some distance, until terminated in the extreme back- ground by gigantic ranges of ice mountains, the one towering above the other. Captain Cook con...

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...ver man, or a man of the woods or of any farm life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada, Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self... ...n leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian, A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye; At home on Kanadian snow shoes or up ... ...’d with supreme power, one of an average unending procession, Inland and sea coast we go, and pass all boundary lines, Our swift ordinances on their w... ... icebergs, I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones, the Atlantic and Pacific, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian sea, and the sea of Peru, The w... ...rawn by dogs, I see the porpoise hunters, I see the whale crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic, I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, val... ...s, petroleum, These triumphs of our time, the Atlantic’s delicate cable, The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac t... ...crashing and smoking, the pride of the men in their pieces, The chief gunner ranges and sights his piece and selects a fuse of the right time, After f...

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...ntially dream- like. The vision of M. Anatole France, the Prince of Prose, ranges over all the extent of his realm, indul- gent and penetrating, disil... ...r of the faith, he drifted casually in the miraculous trough of stone from coast to coast and from island to island along the northern seas. At the ag... ...m and storm, the great loneliness of the waters, the stillness of watchful coasts, and the alert readiness which marks men who live face to face with ... ...ay be heard, from the Straits east- ward, with many variations. Out in the Pacific the schooner becomes a cutter, and the pearl-divers are replaced by... ...oes not pay. There had been a book written on that theme—an attempt to put pacificism on a material basis. Noth- ing more solid in the way of argument... ...training I had imposed upon myself as ordinary seaman on board a North Sea coaster, I had come up from Lowestoft— my first long railway journey in Eng... ...e I am writing these words the children, or maybe the grandchildren, of my pacific teachers are out in trawlers, under the Naval flag, dredging for Ge...

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...emolish us as a nation. Our distance from Europe and the just, moderate, and pacific policy of our Government may form some security against these dan... .... It ought therefore to be cherished. To secure us against these dangers our coast and in land frontiers should be fortified, our Army and Navy, regu... ... our militia be placed on the best practicable footing. To put our extensive coast in such a state of defense as to secure our cities and interior fro... ...d fron tiers were invaded in almost every part; the waste of life along our coast and on some parts of our inland frontiers, to the defense of which ... ...le to withdraw it. The great inter ests which the United States have in the Pacific, in commerce and in the fisheries, have also made it neces sary ... ...idas have been peaceably acquired, and our boundary has been extended to the Pacific Ocean; the independence of the southern nations of this hemispher... ...vania the mineral trea sures of the great southeastern and central mountain ranges should have been so tardy in bringing to the smelting furnace and ...

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...ed. “He has hidden for a month to throw thee off thy guard. He crossed the ranges last night with Tabaqui, hot-foot on thy trail,” said the Wolf, pant... ...s year you must learn how to catch fish.” They set out together across the Pacific, and Matkah showed Kotick how to sleep on his back with his flipper... ...f the water. No cradle is so comfortable as the long, rocking swell of the Pacific. When Kotick felt his skin tingle all over, Matkah told him he was ... ...es of what they had done while they had been at sea. They talked about the Pacific as boys would talk about a wood that they had been nutting in, and ... ...the hollows of the ground swell that sets in to Copper Island. He knew the coast perfectly well, so about midnight, when he felt himself gently bumped...

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...e danger is, and get as good a freezing there as anywhere on the Northwest Coast. I never voyaged so far in all my life. You shall see men you never h... ... life in nature universally dispersed. The countless shoals which annually coast the shores of Europe and America are not so interesting to the studen... ... house nor cultivated field, nor any sign of the vicin ity of man. Now we coasted along some shallow shore by the edge of a dense palisade of bulrush... ... and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine. The church is a sort of hospital for men... ...stream; enjoying in soli tude its cascades still unknown to fame; by long ranges of mountains of Sandwich and of Squam, slumbering like tumuli of Tit... ... his posi tion, can see over that strip of Atlantic coast to Asia and the Pacific, who, as it were, sees the shore slope upward over the Alps to the ... ...t gone to rest:— The western wind came lumbering in, Bearing a faint Pacific din, Our evening mail, swift at the call Of its Postmaster Ge... ...nent, at first seen a hundred miles distant over fields of ice,—stupendous ranges of mountains from seven and eight to twelve and fourteen thousand fe...

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... trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough. You will export such a... ...ntend the discharge of imports night and day; to be upon many parts of the coast almost at the same time noften the richest freight will be discharged... ...raph, unweariedly sweeping the horizon, speaking all passing vessels bound coastwise; to keep up a steady despatch of commodities, for the supply of s... ... glimpse of some of the peaks of the still bluer and more distant mountain ranges in the northwest, those true blue coins from heaven’s own mint, and ... ...ngs are sound, his spirits never flag. Even the sailor on the Atlantic and Pacific is awakened by his voice; but its shrill sound never roused me from... ...oys to assist one, than it is to explore the private seal the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one’s being alone. “ Erret, et extremos alter scru... ... that farthest western way, which does not pause at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor conduct toward a wornout China or Japan, but leads on direct, ...

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...r. Adister’s intonation told of his proposing a wretched alternative,—’the Pacific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North... ...is; or there he seems to be; but he’s dead: and the fisherman off the west coast after dreaming of a magical haul, gets more fish than disappointment ... ...orbery?’ the captain inquired. ‘There’s a harp or two in it,’ he responded pacifically. Mrs. Dyke was not pleased with the tone. ‘And never will be ou... ...yond an allusion to an accident to John Mattock’s yacht off the Irish west-coast last autumn; but the Irishmen were subjected to some remarks by the E... ...the teeth of the Celt gnashing at him, goes a step nearer to the bourne of pacification than Press and Parliament reflecting the popu- lar opinion tha... ...48 Celt and Saxon ‘It’s for a walk in the wind up Caer Gybi, and along the coast I mean to go,’ said Kathleen. ‘This morning?’ the captain asked her. ... ...green of the earth green- ing out from under wings of shadow, the mountain ranges holding hands about an immensity of space. It was one of our giant d...

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...o be navigable as yet by the human understanding, yet here and there to be coasted,—I wish at this point to direct the reader’s attention upon a passa... ...? You are aware, perhaps, reader, that in the Mediter- ranean Sea, off the coast of Asia Minor (and, indeed, else- where), through the very middle of ... ...two great oceans of our planet, the 93 Thomas de Quincey Atlantic and the Pacific; whilst the act of translating into Greek and from Hebrew, that is,... ...but it is not so. In particular the French, certainly the literature which ranges at the lowest elevation upon the scale of passion, nevertheless is o... ...of acclimatizing powers. We travel as wheat travels through all reasonable ranges of temperature; they, like rice, can migrate only to warm latitudes.... ...he part of the intruders, both parties might soon have settled down into a pacific compromise of their feuds. Instead of this, the cimeter was invoked...

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... 21.) faltered out a dismissal: dismissal of his last substantial man, but pacification of his scarlet-woman. Thus D’Aiguillon rose again, and culmina... ...but the Fortunatus’ Purse he has not. Sanguine Controller-General! a whole pacific French Revolution may stand schemed in the head of the thinker; but... ...ismissal; (In May, 1776.) and let the French Revolution accomplish itself, pacifically or not, as it can. Hope, then, is deferred? Deferred; not destr... ...t must be rammed down there, and shaped stair-wise into as many as ‘thirty ranges of convenient seats,’ firm-trimmed with turf, covered with enduring ... ...hiffonne, without bloodshed; restores the pave- ment of Arles. He sails in Coast-barks, this Rebecqui, scrutinis- ing suspicious Martello-towers, with... ...hem, Barbaroux says ‘with tears:’ they consider what Rivers, what Mountain ranges are in it: they will retire behind this Loire-stream, defend these A... ...f Provence;’ he is one. The reckless, shipwrecked man: flung ashore on the coast of the Maldives long ago, while sailing and soldiering as Indian Figh... ...main, it were madness to think: well, if you can get to Quimper on the sea-coast, and take shipping there. Faster, ever faster! Before the end of the ...

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...ppressed colonies of Great Britain, inhabiting a por- tion of the Atlantic coast of North America, publicly de- clared their national independence, an... ...oud 148 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two sobriquet of the “Great Pacificator,” and by that title, and for that service, his political friend... ...em where they can buy them cheapest; and that, undoubtedly, will be on the coast of Africa, provided you will consent not to hang them for going there... ...ould not be equally well made in favor of his right to bring them from the coast of Africa. The Judge replied that the Constitution requires the suppr... ...have taken a distinct position on the question. We are in a trying time—it ranges above mere party— and this movement to call a halt and turn our step... ... we will accomplish will be none the less radical from being the result of pacific mea- sures. The battle of freedom is to be fought out on prin- cipl...

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...of defiance and resistance, I rang at the gate, and was admitted in a most pacific manner by the Aged. “My son, sir,” said the old man, after securing... ... sails of windmills carried away; and gloomy accounts had come in from the coast, of shipwreck and death. Violent blasts of rain had ac- companied the... ... watermen’s boats were far more numerous. Of barges, sailing colliers, and coasting traders, there were perhaps as many as now; but, of steam-ships, g... ...e weary western streets of London on a cold dusty spring night, with their ranges of stern shut-up mansions and their long rows of lamps, are melancho...