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... sea once every century -- Wandering islands -- The Phantom Ship -- The Flying Dutchman -- The crimes for which he suffers -- In pursuit of the spectr... ...ly ship -- Real spectres of the sea -- Why the spectre ship was commanded by a Dutchman -- Dying superstition 81-89 CHAPTER VII. Marco Polo's visit to... ...he commonly accepted version of the story is that given by Jal: An unbelieving Dutch captain, endeavoring to double Cape Horn against the force of a h... ...to sail the sea, the evil genius of sailors. Thus the appearance of the Flying Dutchman is ever dreaded as the fore- runner of disaster. O'Reilly sing... ...their destined port, they'll see their homes no more; They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore." IN PURSUIT OF THE SPECTRAL SHIP... ...enus was successfully made from two points, on separate islands, but while the astronomers were making their calculations one of the ship's store room... ...ohn Reinhold Foster and his son, naturalists, William Baily and William Wales, astronomers, and a historiographer. IN A REGION OF INTENSE COLD. The mo... ...itish commerce. Besides the crews there were scientists, naturalists, artists, astronomers, and the young man, Omai, whom Captain Furneaux had taken f...

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... piece of software. 58 This could be something like SETI@home, through which astronomers can distribute voluminous data from radio tele- scopes to ind... ... (last visited June 1, 2007). 118. In a case brought by Adam Curry against a Dutch tabloid after the tabloid attempted to republish several CC-license... ... ”See Posting of Pamela Jones to Groklaw, Creative Commons License Upheld by Dutch Court, http://www.groklaw.net/article.php ?story 20060316052623594... ...ia Garlick to Creative Commons Weblog, Creative Commons Licenses Enforced in Dutch Court, http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry /5823 (Mar. 16, 2006...

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...s many lan guages as I had the least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca, but all to no ... ...he author sets out on his third voyage. Is taken by pirates. The malice of a Dutchman. His arrival at an island. He is received into Laputa. I had no... ...and setting guard upon us, went to search the sloop. I observed among them a Dutchman, who seemed to be of some authority, though he was not commander... ...uage, swore we should be tied back to back and thrown into the sea. I spoken Dutch tolerably well; I told him who we were, and begged him, in consider... ...the two pirate ships was commanded by a Japanese captain, who spoke a little Dutch, but very imperfectly. He came up to me, and after several question... ...tre of the island there is a chasm about fifty yards in diameter, whence the astronomers descend into a large dome, which is therefore called Flandon... ...nd their discoveries Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 149 much further than our astronomers in Europe; for they have made a catalogue of ten thousand fix...

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...been fated to receive. Briefly, it informed me that Mr. Julius Wendigee, a Dutch electrician, who has been experimenting with certain apparatus akin t... ...rth it is that form these great circles about the tunnels known to earthly astronomers (misled by a false analogy) as volcanoes.” It was down this sha... ...ormous vertical shafts which open invariably in what are called by earthly astronomers the ‘craters’ of the moon. The lid covering one such aperture I... ...resently to the topic of this sponge caught lunar atmosphere. I am told by astronomers and physicists that all he tells is in absolute accordance with...

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...ght that others did, knowing, too, that natural causes are assigned by the astronomers for such things, and that their motions and even their revoluti... ...tion. These had spe- cious titles also, such as these: – ‘ An eminent High Dutch physician, newly come over from Holland, where he resided during all ... ...I remember that any one of those families miscarried. Among these, several Dutch mer- chants were particularly remarkable, who kept their houses like ... ...t our ships or corre- spond with us; indeed we stood on ill terms with the Dutch, and were in a furious war with them, but though in a bad condition t... ...ade could recover itself in those parts of the world; and the Flemings and Dutch (but especially the last) made very great advantages of it, having al... ...ept open, and particularly be- cause, as we were in an open war with I the Dutch at that time, the Dutch capers at first took a great many of our coll...

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...ary KETOS, GREEK. CETUS, LA TIN. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. HV ALT, DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEI... ...ck. Another version of the Whale-Ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover... ... all sorts of scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been. Why did the Dutch in De Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Loui... ...ghtened world by the whaleman. After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbar... ...is the whale which for more than two centuries past has been hunted by the Dutch and English in the Arctic seas; it is the whale which the American fi... ...difices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; eve...

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...w. ^ o& , Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHAEL, Anglo Saxon. HV AL, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, Swedish. HV ALUR, Icelandic. WHALE, English. BALEINE, French. ... ...ck. Another Version of the whale ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover... ... all sorts of scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been. Why did the Dutch in De Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Louis... ...ightened world by the whaleman. After its first blunder born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbar... ...is the whale which for more than two centuries past has been hunted by the Dutch and English in the Arctic seas; it is the whale which the American fis... ...edifices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; eve...

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...he robber is on board he will no doubt get off at Suez, so as to reach the Dutch or French colonies in Asia by some other route. He ought to know that... ...e lesser stars which gravitated around him. Yet there was near by what the astronomers would call a disturbing star, which might have produced an agit... ... a confused mass of ships of all nations: En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese junks, sempas... ...cutta, were mixed crowds of all races, Americans and English, Chinamen and Dutchmen, mostly merchants ready to buy or sell anything. The Frenchman fel...

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...hich is current for ordinary purposes, even amongst the most scientific of astronomers. For the man of science, equally with the populace, talks of th... ...f intercepting any further draughts upon the rest of the solar system, the Dutch ambassador rose, and proposed the health of their high mightinesses t...

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...all richly freighted. This cam- 34 Saint-Simon paign cost the English and Dutch dear. It is believed their loss was more than thirty millions of ecus... ...King. Harlay, son-in-law of our enemy, was sent to Maestricht to sound the Dutch. But in proportion as they saw peace desired were they less inclined ... ...e would see it. The reception, however, was to take place on board a large Dutch vessel that he was going to examine. There were two ambassadors; they... ... some time an obstinate silence, refusing to acknowledge the new King; the Dutch secretly murmured against him, and the 167 Saint-Simon Emperor openl... ...here the Admiral retired. The enemy lost six thousand men; the ship of the Dutch Vice-Admiral was blown up; several others were sunk, and some dismast... ...e learned, and often the admiration of the historian, of jurisconsults, of astronomers, and mathematicians, the most profound. He was especially learn...

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...of currant, two of raisin, four pint bottles of ale, six of ginger-beer, a Dutch cheese, a heap of tarts, three sally-lunns, and four shillingsworth o... ...jolly new acquaintances have done for you.’ So we played at catch with the Dutch cheese, and after- wards bowled it for long-stopping, when, to the di... ...ing of the goose, we resolved to finish the cold re- past awaiting us. The Dutch cheese had been bowled into bits. With a portion of the mashed tarts ... ...ay, and we in our old Germany hold that the mind advances notwithstanding. Astronomers condescending to earthly philosophy may admit that advance in t... ...y to my grandfather’s renewed demand to know whether any one of those High-Dutch women had got hold of me, Peterborough said: ‘Mr. Beltham, the only l...

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...on of the thoughts which lay buried beneath the rich 61 Balzac and florid Dutch skin of the old man; but he understood well enough the advantage he h... ...Agrippas (all in their turn phy- sicians of the house of Valois); also the astronomers, astrolo- gers, and alchemists who surrounded the princes of Ch...

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... in a general way, that the finest place in the world is—or, alas, was—the Dutch borough of V ondervotteimittiss. Y et as it lies some distance from a... ...ered up in the shape of a cabbage. In her left hand she has a little heavy Dutch watch; in her right she wields a ladle for the sauerkraut and pork. B... ...on of years, is a proposition not to be entertained; and yet these ancient astronomers were absolutely cajoled, it appears, into believing that a deci... ...to run us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it; or a Down- East or Dutch Pagoda, or a pig-sty, or an ingenious little bit of fancy work, eithe... ...ed; but analogous misfortunes had been long a subject of discus- sion with astronomers. I need scarce tell you, my friend, that, even when you left us... ... the ignorant that actual apprehension prevailed, upon the announcement by astronomers of a new comet, yet this announcement was generally received wi... ...bring it into very close proximity with the earth. There were two or three astronomers, of sec- ondary note, who resolutely maintained that a contact ... ...orded visitation. The people now, dis- missing any lingering hope that the astronomers were wrong, experienced all the certainty of evil. The chimeric...

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...is opinion on the ordinary course of Nature, and on the observations which astronomers have made. By the course of Nature we here understand the time ... ...e friend a Cato. He embarks on board his ship in order to go and fight the Dutch, having left all his money, his jewels, and everything he had in the ... ... in fiction than in truth.” This answer was not so sincere as that which a Dutch ambassador made, who, when the same monarch complained that his maste...

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...man, I may have intelligence for the private ear of the States’ College of Astronomers of far more importance than the details, however wonderful, of ... ...s- 68 Poe in Five V olumes pecial antipathies to certain burgomasters and astronomers. Don’t understand at all. Secondly. That an odd little dwarf an... ...anquillitatis, Mare Faecunditatis, etc., given to the dark spots by former astronomers, Mr. L. has entered into details re- garding oceans and other l... ...ave distinguished some words had he been acquainted with the Spanish.’ The Dutchman maintains it to have been that of a Frenchman; but we find it stat... ... In reading the above sentence a curious apothegm of an old weather-beaten Dutch navigator comes full upon my recollec- tion. “It is as sure,” he was ...

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...wledge patiently acquired, modestly possessed, and faithfully used. As the astronomers tell us that it is probable that there are in the universe innu... ... mathematics, algebra, danc ing, history, reasoning, riding, fencing, Low Dutch, High Dutch, and natural philosophy. In short, the modern pre cept o...

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... a long season.” The secretary of the Province of New Netherland, writing in Dutch, in 1650, for the information of those who wished to take up land t... ...ttracted me. Where I lived was as far off as many a region viewed nightly by astronomers. We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some re... ... behind the clouds. There are the stars, and they who can may read them. The astronomers forever comment on and observe them. They are not exhalations...

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...c body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr... ...the current of the trade into the latter river, and its profits from their Dutch neighbors into their own pockets. Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack i... ...ire hills, I have suddenly, through a gap, a cleft or “clove road,” as the Dutch settlers called it, caught sight of a ship under full sail, over a fi... ... and the Leaf, the stories of Griselda, Virginia, Ariadne, and Blanche the Dutchesse, and much more of less distinguished merit. There are many po et... ...oroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,—these are some of our astronomers. There are perturbations in our orbits produced by the influ e...

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... long season.” The secretary of the Province of New Netherland, writing in Dutch, in 1650, for the information of those who wished to take up land the... ...ouds. There are the stars, and they who can may read W alden 94 them. The astronomers forever comment on and ob serve them. They are not exhalations...

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...oated into his mind the joyful thought: “In two years’ time I shall have two Dutch cows; Pava herself will perhaps still be alive, a dozen young daugh... ...ke the samovar?” she asked. “Yes, please.” The parlor was a big room, with a Dutch stove, and a screen dividing it into Part III — Chapter 25 309 two... ... in spite of his excess in pleasure he looked as fresh as a big glossy green Dutch cucumber. The prince had traveled a great deal, and considered one ... ...ht in saying that the stars move. Part VIII — Chapter 19 769 “And could the astronomers have understood and calculated anything, if they had taken in... ... always alike, and can always be trusted. And just as the conclusions of the astronomers would have been vain and uncertain if not founded on obser v...