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...owerful against all poisons; it is spotted like the panther, and therefore some naturalists have given this stone the name of pantherur; Aaron calls... ...le, and much admired for her beauty and ingenuity. She understood the Dutch and French languages, rare attainments then, but which of themselves woul...

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... the observations which till now have been made and every day are making by the naturalists; much more if this aspect and these observations be comb... ...hich is now called dry or habitable land, (excepting only those mountains which naturalists call with good reason primitive) are found at every step ... ...e than an hypothesis) I seem to understand every thing, the observations of the naturalists, as well as what is found in the Holy Scriptures. First.... ...t in this others better than I have thought in like manner. In fact, the leaned French authors who commented upon the New Testament against Quesnel,...

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...hment of the British Colony—survival assured: 1793–99 CHAPTER FIVE The Continent Defined: the voyage of the Investigator 1800–01 CHAPTER SIX French Exploration—Nicholas Baudin and Le Géographe: 1802 CHAPTER SEVEN Settlement and Expansion in Van Diemens Land: 1803–10 CHAPTER EIGHT Penetrating the Interior: 1811–18 CHAPTER NINE Coastal Exploration—Britis...

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...lves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Capture of the pla... ... and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish ships Rapid... ...citizens hire filibusters to guard their homes -- The English outwitted by the French -- The French return and plunder the city for a second time -- T... ...- Bougainville is entertained by an aged chief -- At the chiefs invitation the French pitch their tents upon the shore -- After a long and delightful ... ...d spirits had set out on the high seas, encouraged by their victories over the French in England, and sailed in quest of new lands. They soon also dis... ...he kangaroo and Australian dog, or dingo, which were previously unknown to the naturalists of the civilized world. A few of the former were killed and... ...dscape painter and probably a sketch artist, John Reinhold Foster and his son, naturalists, William Baily and William Wales, astronomers, and a histor... ...uable some time for British commerce. Besides the crews there were scientists, naturalists, artists, astronomers, and the young man, Omai, whom Captai...

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... at the Golden Dragon they make the finest of Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame... ...much more time working are much higher on the happiness list than are the French, who vacation a lot. ―Money only makes us happier up to a... ...ped and gave him some oxygen. No one stayed with him until he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law ... ... a thing as being first. Theists, deists and pantheists opt for the being, Naturalists and materialists opt for the thing. Each of these positions ha... ...s Age of Reason, were powerful stimulators of 18 th Century American and French thinking. In The Age of Reason he wrote ‗My own mind is my own chur... ...At any rate, agnostics don‘t accept the teachings of religions. But as the French philosopher Rene Descartes told us ‗any person who actually tries t...

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...s XLVII. Of the uncertaintie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called in French Destriers XLIX. Of ancient Customes L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus ... ...thes; taught it to talke our tongue (though many-times with a jerke of the French Iargon) wouldset it forth to the best service I might; and to bette... ...ot onely serve you two, to repeate in true English what you reade in fine French, but many thousands more, to tell them in their owne, what they wou... ...(Madame, now do I flatter you?) Yet this I may and must say, like in this French-mans report, our third in name, but fist and chiefe in fame, K. Edw... ...oller-like did he undertake what Latine prose; Greeke, Latine, Italian or French Poesie should crosse my way (which as Bugge-beares affrighted my un... ...w and garish show; so have they more credit in the lawes then I. We other naturalists suppose th at there is a great and incomparable preference betw...

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...they went under various names. In addition, those considered aggressors, naturalists, intellectually handicapped, spiritualists, amongst many other... ...y to restore a balance. Their ideas came from history, World War two, the French underground movement. Doctor Nelson, a leader in Techtronic engineer...

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...es: suddenly became allies. He was defeated not once, but twice. And the French Bourbon King was re-instated. Yet, in a very short time, The B... ...iving the masses any actual power at all. If you study the history of the French Revolution without obsessively focusing on the leaders: you will... ... badly every time his armies were larger than the armies of his enemies. The French Revolution is an obvious illustration of the pendulum Dynamic. ... ...h nearly all of his country’s wealth in his pockets, to live in luxury on the French Riviera. Russian New-age gangster’s becoming New-age warlords ... ... tried to explain all animal behavior by competition. This is still how most Naturalists study and view animals today. He assumed that every ... ... stop trading with Uganda altogether. The Press had a field day vilifying the French for their inhumanity and for their anti-American policies… Sin... ...es. Has turned Science into a meaningless insane evil. The sick hypocrisy of Naturalists who call themselves scientists… wasting their lives; recor...

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...ay she received the following episode of an epic which one might call “The French in Egypt.” DURING THE EXPEDITION in Upper Egypt under General Desaix... ...e Nile. In order to place a sufficient distance between themselves and the French army, the Maugrabins made forced marches, and only halted when night... ...e, and spurred on vigorously in the direction where he thought to find the French army. So 5 Balzac impatient was he to see a bivouac again that he p... ...re lacerated with his spurs, and at last the poor animal died, leaving the Frenchman alone in the desert. After walking some time in the sand with all... ...as turned towards the man. A thousand confused thoughts passed through the Frenchman’s mind; first he thought of killing it with a bullet from his gun... ...es whose glare had softened a little, she gave vent to that wild cry which naturalists compare to the grating of a saw. “She is exacting,” said the Fr...

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...tern has been formally imposed upon him by the laws of verse. For that is the essence of a prosody. Verse may be rhythmical; it may be merely allitera... ...ready silent in the ears of our next neighbours; for in France the oratorical accent and the pattern of the web have almost or altogether succeeded to... ...Stevenson invita minerva, is to avoid writing verse. So wonderfully far apart have races wandered in spirit, and so hard it is to un- derstand the lit... ... is distinctly better than English; and French verse, above all while Hugo lives, it will not do to place upon one side. What is more to our purpose, ... ...sh, and the cow- ardly are scattered in broad sheets on every table, while the antidote, in small volumes, lies unread upon the shelf. I have spoken o... ...pressed, is to run a little upon the danger of extreme self-love. Difficulty sets a high price upon achievement; and the artist may easily fall into t...

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...fice as Assistant Professor in the Museum of Natural History in Paris, the French Government had attached me to that expedition. After six months in N... ...ingular ex- pression to his face. Who calls himself Canadian calls himself French; and, little communicative as Ned Land was, I must admit that he too... ...hensible words. Then he seemed to question me by a look. I replied in good French that I did not know his lan- guage; but he seemed not to understand ... ...d Land, who broke out for the twentieth time. “We speak to those rogues in French, English, German, and Latin, and not one of them has the politeness ... ...he nationality of the two strangers is hard to determine. Neither English, French, nor German, that is quite certain. However, I am inclined to think ... ...f phosphate and carbonate of lime, with a little gelatine; and lastly, for naturalists, it is sim- ply a morbid secretion of the organ that produces t... ...tain amount of education, are easily domesticated, and I think, with other naturalists, that if properly taught they would be of great service as fish... ... poulp on which a regiment of cavalry could manoeuvre. Lastly, the ancient naturalists speak of monsters whose mouths were like gulfs, and which were ... ...easure two yards in length. Besides, according to the calculations of some naturalists, one of these animals only six feet long would have tentacles t...

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...ainst the sky. She was riding to her anchor in the bay, and proved to be a French corvette. This pleased our captain exceedingly, and, coming on deck,... ...e a long strip from his girdle of white tappa, and handed it to one of the French officers, who, after explain- ing what was to be done, gave it to Je... ... him to stay where he was. By this time the officer of the deck aboard the Frenchman had noticed our movements, and hailed to know what had happened. ... ..., raising the game in their coverts, but leaving the securing of it to the Frenchmen. Here, as elsewhere, the islanders have no idea of taking part in... ...reason to suppose that Hardy intended to deceive us, he concluded that the Frenchmen were in some way or other mistaken in 25 Melville what they had ... ... entire group is generally ascribed to the coral insect. According to some naturalists, this wonderful little crea- ture, commencing its erections at ...

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...escaped him in any heat of dispute, on being taxed with it by a celebrated French writer, he solemnly reaffirmed it, with his reasons. 12 many declar... ...leasing to be abridged; I shall give it, there- fore, accurately, from the French of his biographer: “M. Des Cartes had no company but that of his ser... ...tes had no company but that of his servant, with whom he was conversing in French. The sailors, who took him for a foreign merchant, rather than a cav... ...d says (p. 8,) he ran home “because he would not trust his safety with the French clergy;” insinuating that he was likely to be murdered for his reli-... ...ere was Leviathan, no longer afraid of the daggers of English cavaliers or French clergy, but “frightened from his propriety” by a row in an ale-house... ...live fast—he is a slow coach. I believe it is generally understood amongst naturalists, that the crocodile is a blockhead. It is my own impression tha...

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...H. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEINE, FRENCH. BALLENA, SPANISH. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, FEGEE. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, ERROMANG... ...and boldness in the fishermen.” —Thomas Jefferson’ s Whale Memorial to the French Minister in 1778. “And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it?”... ...nd calms of all four oceans, her old hull’s complexion was darkened like a French grenadier’s, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia. Her venerabl... ...wn with thorns.” “All these incomplete indications but serve to torture us naturalists.” Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, a... ...s (Pig-fish and Sow-fish of the Coffins of Nantucket) are included by many naturalists among the whales. But as these pig-fish are a noisy, contemptib... ...Physeter whale, and the Anvil Headed whale, is the present Cachalot of the French, and the Pottsfich of the Ger- mans, and the Macrocephalus of the Lo... ...the second species of my Folios? It is the Great Mysticetus of the English naturalists; the Greenland Whale of the English whalemen; the Baliene Ordin... ... the Greenland Whale of the English whalemen; the Baliene Ordinaire of the French whalemen; the Growlands W alfish of the Swedes. It is the whale whic... ...ethodization formed upon such a basis. On this rock every one of the whale-naturalists has split. But it may possibly be conceived that, in the intern...

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...h. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, Swedish. HV ALUR, Icelandic. WHALE, English. BALEINE, French. BALLENA, Spanish. PEKEE NUEE NUEE, Fegee. PEHEE NUEE NUEE, Erromang... ...ess in the fishermen.” Extracts 9 Thomas Jefferson’s Whale Memorial to the French minister in 1788. “And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it?”... ...nd calms of all four oceans, her old hull’s complexion was darkened like a French grenadier’s, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia. Her vener a... ...wn with thorns.” “All these incomplete indications but serve to torture us naturalists.” Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, a... ...Physeter whale, and the Anvil Headed whale, is the present Cachalot of the French, and the Pottfisch of the Germans, and the Macrocephalus of the Long ... ...ongs (Pig fish and Sow fish of the Coffins of Nantucket) are included by many naturalists among the whales. But as these pig fish are a nosy, contemptible... ...the second species of my Folios? It is the Great Mysticetus of the English naturalists; the Greenland Whale of the English whalemen; the Baleine Ordin... ... the Greenland Whale of the English whalemen; the Baleine Ordinaire of the French whalemen; the Gronlands Walfisk of the Swedes. It is the whale which ... ...ethodization formed upon such a basis. On this rock every one of the whale naturalists has split. But it may possibly be conceived that, in the intern...

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...th enthusiasm, and the other raven dropped everything and came. The two sat side by side on the limb and discussed me as freely and offensively as two... ...e next chapter, will show the reader that duels between boys, for fun, and duels between men in earnest, are very different affairs.] CHAPTER VIII The... ... tions of our day. Since it is always fought in the open air, the combatants are nearly sure to catch cold. M. Paul de Cassagnac, the most inveterate ... ...nd draughts cannot intrude—he will eventually endanger his life. This ought to moderate the talk of those people who are so stubborn in maintaining th... ... the French duel is the most health-giving of recreations because of the open-air exercise it affords. And it ought also to moderate that foolish talk... ...e im- moral. 31 A Tramp Abroad But it is time to get at my subject. As soon as I heard of the late fiery outbreak between M. Gambetta and M. Fourtou ...

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... additional information in a future edition. The scientific portion of the French original is not with- out a few errors, which the translator, with t... ... sixteenth century; I mean Latin. If I am mistaken, I can but try Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, or Hebrew. But the savants of the sixteenth century... ...s the word “tabiled”, which looked like Hebrew, and in the last the purely French words “mer”, “arc”, “mere.” “ All this was enough to drive a poor fe... ...ooking guns, which need not alarm any one. Close by, at No. 5, there was a French “restaurant,” kept by a cook of the name of Vincent, where we had an... ...h the Valkyria was for the time the only occupant. Usually the English and French con- servators of fisheries moor in this bay, but just then they wer... ...ters the vertical coils of its tail. Its jaw is enormous, and according to naturalists it is armed with no less than one hundred and eighty-two teeth....

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...ld have produced something better—something up to the highest limit of the French influences and training. In England he rose to the highest limit att... ... by the pagan mother’s distress—Jesuit missionaries in Canada in the early French times, for instance; see episodes quoted by Parkman. Y.M. Well, let ... ...mplexion of his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek ... ... the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the... ...ations. She said she would finish them in the morning, and then her little French friend would arrive from New York—the surprise would follow; the sur... ... explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, naturalists, claimants, impostors, chemists, biologists, geologists, philol...

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...ppeals; when the presid- ing genius that watched over the destinies of the French nation had played out all the best cards in his hand, and his advers... ... that the Queen of England did feel seriously alarmed at the notion that a French prince should occupy the Spanish throne; or whether she was tenderly... ...stavus Adolphus Maximilian von Galgenstein, had been in the service of the French as page to a nobleman; then of His Majesty’s gardes du corps; then a... ...erving Her Sacred Majesty, to be sure: long life to her, and down with the French King!” Bullock, a few of the men, and two or three of the boys, pipe... ...trebleu!” and it W AS ventrebleu with him, I warrant you; for bleu, in the French language, means “through;” and ventre—why, you see, ventre means— CA... ... once a man who had a mysterious exhibition of an animal, quite unknown to naturalists, called “the wusser.” Those curious individuals who desired to ...

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...trate. Louis XIV . had long been the enemy of the Dutch, who insulted or ridiculed him to their hearts’ content, although it must be said that they ge... ...us to get off so cheaply. Some of the agitators whispered, “He will be off, he will escape from us!” Others replied, “A vessel is waiting for him at S... ...f a good citizen.” “First of all,” said the Count, “I am not a citizen, but an officer, which is a very different thing; and secondly, I am not a Holl... ... the Dutch and the Portuguese, ri- valling each other in this branch of horticulture, had begun to worship that flower, and to make more of a cult of ... ... to fail, all their thoughts were engrossed by that great black tulip, which was looked upon to be as chimerical as the black swan of Horace or the wh... ...an- cier, participated in the detestable intrigues and abominable plots of the brothers De Witt against Dutch nationality and in their secret relation...