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1001 IX | this efficient means of deadening the shock of arrival. Happily,
1002 II | was ornamental rather than deadly.~At the further end of the
1003 XXIV | imperceptible.~In the present case, dealing with a projectile nine feet
1004 XIX | of the Gun Club, and the dearest of all, J. T. Maston. At
1005 II | revolver. During violent debates this novel kind of bell
1006 XVI | President Barbicane, in which he debited himself to the latter in
1007 I | who were just making their debut in the profession of arms
1008 XVII | spectacle then, and now what decay! This moon is nothing more
1009 XI | victory. Then, worn out by deceit, treasons, infidelity, and
1010 VI | and of which no one could decently profess ignorance. Still,
1011 XXI | delight succeeded a great deception, when, trusting to a cursory
1012 XX | scene, short, grave, and decisive, took place between the
1013 I | ever arise to enable us to declare war against some transatlantic
1014 IV | not exceed in latitude the declination of the luminary; in other
1015 XIII | borders were formed of steep declivities; they were long parallel
1016 XXIV | Rosse had never been able to decompose.~
1017 V | have been broken up and decomposed into secondary nebulosities,
1018 XV | necessarily.~The volcano, by the decomposition of certain substances, can
1019 VII | felt how their speed had decreased. It would have seemed to
1020 XXII | Fayette, the government had decreed to him the title of “Citizen
1021 XI | The right hemisphere, “dedicated to the ladies,” encloses
1022 V | understood that the president was deducting from the terrestrial diameter
1023 XII | other, who thus executed the deed on behalf of their respective
1024 II | American.~Just when the deep-toned clock in the great hall
1025 III | America would penetrate the deepest secrets of that mysterious
1026 XX | will simply say that it is defective, because it assumes that
1027 VIII | some pieces of artillery to defend oneself.”~“Good,” replied
1028 XXV | all precautions.”~These defensive weapons were accompanied
1029 XX | which you cannot refuse deference to.”~“Then, sir, you will
1030 XIX | its axis. It was just this deficiency which baffled these daring
1031 XXII | ocean, this metal prison defied every effort of its prisoners.~
1032 XVII | storm, watching heights defile under their feet, piercing
1033 XIII | cause. All lunar relief was defiling under the eyes of the travelers,
1034 XV | the word you pretend to define.”~Nicholl and Barbicane
1035 XV | particularly like in your definition of the hyperbola (I was
1036 XX | such as the air, they are deflected out of the straight line;
1037 XVIII | and whose formation and deformation have been more rapid. Relatively,
1038 III | produced in the famous Grotto del Cane, had collected at the
1039 XV | within the enclosure except a delegation of members of the Gun Club,
1040 Not | following new-line should be deleted. >{correction} I have indicated
1041 III | become charged with this deleterious gas. Nicholl discovered
1042 VI | And they would go away delighted.~So, then the moon displays
1043 VI | revolutions, earthquakes, the deluge, etc. Then they believed
1044 XII | of 110,000 florins, only demanding an allowance of five per
1045 XIII | projectile passed the line of demarcation between intense light and
1046 II | serious and self-contained demeanor, punctual as a chronometer,
1047 XXIII | have placed in the rank of demigods.~And now will this attempt,
1048 XXI | struggle for hours.~“What demons you are!” cried Michel Ardan,
1049 XX | possibly fly; and others who demonstrate theoretically that fishes
1050 XX | their shoulders to this demonstration.~However, the unknown had
1051 V | Nicholl made a gesture of denial.~“But I have provided for
1052 XII | plainly enough. It boldly denied the possibility of success,
1053 XII | for paying ready money.~Denmark, a little contracted in
1054 XI | boasted of being much more densely populated with 56,000.~The
1055 XIX | separates the molecules of the densest metal, such as silver, iron,
1056 II | wonderfully. Not a rent or a dent anywhere! The wonderful
1057 II | castings, sights covered with dents, plates battered by the
1058 XIV | unfortunate meteor which has so deplorably altered our first direction.”~“
1059 IX | raised the point during the depositions taken before the committee
1060 XV | dispossessing it of its last earthly deposits. So long before being forwarded
1061 I | the cannon, with muzzles depressed, were returned into the
1062 X | outline of those immense depressions inappropriately called “
1063 XXII | after having dismissed the deputation with promises to convey
1064 III | conquest should not sensibly derange the equilibrium of Europe.~
1065 VI | solar system would not be deranged in ages to come.~There remains
1066 XXVII | otherwise after the terrible derangement of the atmospheric strata,
1067 XII | observatories.~France began by deriding the pretensions of the Americans.
1068 VIII | supplement to life it would derive. From an exhausted nation
1069 V | Philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant?”~“I have no doubt
1070 II | a Northern colonist, a descendant of the old anti-Stuart Roundheads,
1071 XIII | Pascha Florida. It little deserved that designation, with its
1072 Not | instead of magic. Verne deserves much >of the credit for
1073 IV | That creature will spoil my design!”~But Nicholl and Barbicane
1074 XVII | imagination could supply to designate it by. To him this Tycho
1075 XIX | and after having so much despaired, I may say I think we shall
1076 XIII | on board the Tampico, a despatch-boat belonging to the Federal
1077 I | felt justly proud when the despatches of a battle returned the
1078 XXVIII| admit that the situation was desperate— he alone had confidence;
1079 XIX | advantage by no means to be despised. But that which renders
1080 VI | exercised by her over human destinies— that every Selenite was
1081 III | period when the latter was destitute as yet of an atmosphere?
1082 XIV | quitted Tampa Town with a detachment of workmen; and on the following
1083 VIII | piece will increase the detention of the gas accumulated behind
1084 XXIV | nature of the moon became determinable with the utmost precision.~
1085 II | air would have produced a detonating mixture, and the explosion
1086 VII | it is because that power detracts from their light; and the
1087 VI | Barbicane, “the fall would develop a heat equal to that produced
1088 XIV | we know— the earth which developes itself at a diameter of
1089 XVIII | seem propitious to animal development, nor sufficient for the
1090 V | conclude that she is absolutely devoid of an atmosphere. The absence
1091 XII | necessary details of the work, devolved upon the Coldspring Company.~
1092 VII | the most logical course to devote our first meeting to the
1093 VII | strange excitement, they were devoting to him their best thoughts.~
1094 XII | and Portugal carried her devotion to science as far as 30,
1095 XXII | employ our time chiefly in devouring each other, in smashing
1096 III | figures with unparalleled dexterity. Michel Ardan chatted first
1097 VI | be considered as one vast dial-plate, upon which the moon travels,
1098 XIV | bathed in limpid ether. Its diamonds set in the heavenly vault
1099 XXVII | Maston, who, despite all dictates of prudence, had kept in
1100 XVI | president, taxed him with dictatorial conduct. His proceedings
1101 III | evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy,
1102 V | organization of their own, must differ remarkably from the inhabitants
1103 IV | calculation the converse of the differential,” replied Barbicane seriously.~“
1104 XXV | Noah’s ark, from which it differs both in dimensions and object.
1105 XVIII | radiation. Light, like heat, can diffuse itself in the air; hence
1106 XIV | sixty feet in diameter to dig down to a depth of nine
1107 XXII | But in spite of all the diligence displayed in preparing the
1108 XVII | turned pale and his eyes grew dim, on reading the twenty words
1109 II | enormous disc, whose colossal dimension could not be estimated.
1110 IV | the action of gravitation diminishes in the inverse ratio of
1111 III | his “knock-me-down” in the dingy taverns of Fell Point.~About
1112 VI | answered, “Go into your dining-room, and walk round the table
1113 XVI | distributed, under the name of dinner, some pieces of bread and
1114 I | carried off victories by dint of lavish expenditure in
1115 XIX | replied Michel Ardan, directing a lighted match to the flame
1116 II | of high mountains, often disappearing behind thick spots, which
1117 XIV | attractions have drawn it to? The disappointment of the travelers in the
1118 XX | himself, nor of the murmur of disapprobation excited by his words. Meeting
1119 VI | charred aspect of the moon— a disaster which they attributed to
1120 XIV | under a complete system of discipline, and the works were commenced
1121 XVIII | neckerchief, open shirtcollar, disclosing a robust neck; his cuffs
1122 II | not put his colleagues to discomfort without some very strong
1123 XVI | Then ensued grumbling, discontent, murmurs; they blamed the
1124 XII | allowance of five per cent. discount for paying ready money.~
1125 XXI | all over,” said Maston, discouraged. “A man like Barbicane would
1126 II | surprised if I am about to discourse to you regarding the Queen
1127 XVIII | officials possessed but little discretion, and Michel Ardan’s proposition
1128 IV | ascertained, they could then discuss the mechanical means, and
1129 VII | replied Barbicane, “before discussing its weight permit me to
1130 II | hour. But Michel Ardan, disdaining scientific reasonings, preferred
1131 XV | action!” cried Nicholl; “a disemboweling of the interior fires of
1132 III | ships lying in the basins, disgorged a crowd drunk with joy,
1133 X | his last success.~Nicholl, disgusted by this obstinacy, tried
1134 III | amiable Michel) succeeded the dish of meat; and was followed
1135 XXII | result, nor the 26th.~It was disheartening. They thought of those unfortunates
1136 XII | the money. It was a purely disinterested operation in the strictest
1137 XVII | Beneath it he discerned the dismantled ramparts of a town; here
1138 XXI | and eighty feet! Belfast, dismayed, rushed to the orifice of
1139 XXII | Barbicane, after having dismissed the deputation with promises
1140 XIII | without saying a word, dismounted, seized his instruments,
1141 VIII | state producing the gravest disorders in the system. Michel had
1142 XIII | by the Gun Club, to the disparagement of Texas, every one in America,
1143 XVIII | minutes later a telegram was dispatched to the secretary of the
1144 XIV | Hence the necessity of dispelling the darkness. However desirous
1145 XXVII | atmospheric strata, and the dispersion of the enormous quantity
1146 II | completed this magnificent display of brilliance. Models of
1147 XIII | luxuriance of the country was displeasing to him. They hastened onward,
1148 XV | but, to Barbicane’s great displeasure, the curve which the projectile
1149 V | Barbicane did not fear to dispose of the rubbish which encumbered
1150 XV | completely to refine it by dispossessing it of its last earthly deposits.
1151 III | chattered, argued, discussed, disputed, applauded, from the gentleman
1152 XXI | discussions and violent disputes between them, Belfast affirming
1153 XX | came in continuous relays, disputing, struggling, even fighting
1154 XXVI | day! All hearts beat with disquietude, save only the heart of
1155 VI | principles were being rapidly disseminated many errors and illusory
1156 XXVI | clock, the heavy silence was dissipated. The moon rose above the
1157 I | threatened with approaching dissolution, when an unexpected circumstance
1158 XVII | there, and all who have a distaste for social life!”~“All!
1159 XXII | influence of the moon upon distempers?”~“Scarcely!”~“No more do
1160 III | generous wine which he had distilled on the slopes of Burgundy,
1161 XIV | of every trade, without distinction of color. As many of these
1162 XXI | with that composure which distinguishes learned bodies in general,
1163 V | Michel, “and not only to distract ourselves, but also with
1164 XX | by degrees. There was no disturbance in the air. The pennant
1165 Not | annoyed me, in the sense of disturbing >my reading; since the reader
1166 V | endowing the Selenite smoking divans with them.”~“My friend,”
1167 VII | long, for in spite of your diver’s dress, swollen by the
1168 XI | the peninsula of Florida, dividing it into two nearly equal
1169 XIX | him that the scheme of the Divine Redemption, according to
1170 VII | of furnishing us with a diving apparatus and an air-pump,
1171 XXII | He was ready to don the diving-dress himself, or try the air
1172 XXII | it in its powerful claws. Diving-dresses were also prepared, which
1173 IV | with frightful rapidity. Divisions and multiplications grew
1174 XIV | projectile with exemplary docility; and a quarter of an hour
1175 XII | face of the earth.” This document, translated into all languages,
1176 XI | which way to look. Notes, documents, letters full of menaces
1177 XXI | like Barbicane would not dodge with his enemy, or ensnare
1178 XXV | names; from the mountains Doerfel and Leibnitz on the eastern
1179 IX | I would not give half a dollar to know it. That we have
1180 Not | enclosed in hash-marks >$ae $‘e dollar-sign preceeds ligatures and accented
1181 V | couple of every kind of domestic animal.”~“I dare say; but
1182 I | ourselves at home; I am a domesticated man and strong in housekeeping.
1183 II | the Earth to the Moon by Domingo Gonzalez,’ a Spanish adventurer.
1184 X | hemisphere presented vast plains, dotted with isolated mountains.~
1185 Not | distinguishable open and close doublequotes. >The book uses ligatures
1186 VI | again, belonging to the doubting class, expressed certain
1187 XV | hemisphere, which would doubtlessly have ended the journey much
1188 XIX | exclaimed, “I must admit we are down-right simpletons!”~“I do not say
1189 I | became deserted, the servants dozed in the antechambers, the
1190 XXII | shell, which was quickly dragged on board. Five minutes did
1191 XVIII | never still for a moment, “dragging his anchors,” as the sailors
1192 XIV | compressed-air engines to drain it off, so as to close up
1193 XIII | could never have worn such drains for themselves; and, on
1194 XXVIII| here related in its most dramatic as well as in its most singular
1195 V | speak, and I have chess, draughts, cards, and dominoes at
1196 VI | circle of attraction. These drawing-room astronomers professed to
1197 XXIII | commissioner, and Francis Drayton, magistrate, were nominated
1198 II | travelers drew back. Their dread was great, but it did not
1199 XV | before midday the first driblets of metal began to flow;
1200 XIII | unfathomable and gloomy, drilled into the lunar soil.~This
1201 XI | asserted her own independence, drove out the Mexicans in March
1202 II | bell scarcely sufficed to drown the clamor of these excitable
1203 II | speed. Then an irresistible drowsiness crept over their brain.
1204 V | they make their skins into drums.”~Barbicane and Nicholl
1205 VIII | sober over their oxygen as a drunkard does over his wine.~When
1206 VIII | disconcerted. This unexpected drunkenness broke the monotony of the
1207 IX | washing it in water, then drying it, and it is ready for
1208 VII | with the air tempered the dryness; and many apartments in
1209 XII | gave nevertheless 9,000 ducats, proving her love for scientific
1210 XV | most tenacious, the most ductile, and the most malleable,
1211 XXI | more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries
1212 XV | this time the disc remained dumb and dark. It did not answer
1213 XI | while Franklin, Ross, Kane, Dumont, d’Urville, and Lambert
1214 XII | This contract, executed in duplicate, was signed by Barbicane,
1215 XXVII | their hope was of but short duration, and at night again thick
1216 XII | subscriptions were being eagerly taken up. Certain countries
1217 II | said Nicholl, putting his ear to the chest of the wounded
1218 XX | took a brandy-grog, which earned for the steward no end of
1219 VIII | amazement on seeing these earthly-winged animals pecking in your
1220 VI | cataclysms, revolutions, earthquakes, the deluge, etc. Then they
1221 XIII | along its right bank to the eastward. Soon the waves of the bay
1222 XXIV | Yankees delight to call it.~Eastwards rise the Appalachians, the
1223 IV | Ah, there you are, you eaters of x^1; you think you have
1224 III | the kitchen of an English eating-house. Michel, who was imaginative,
1225 XV | accustomed darkness; the stars, eclipsed for a moment, again twinkled
1226 III | forth with serene splendor, eclipsing by her intense illumination
1227 III | receive light and heat. It economizes the gas, which is in every
1228 XIV | of the many reasons for economizing, Barbicane, after having
1229 XX | their rays, on grazing the edge of her disc, exhibit not
1230 XI | Grande City on the Starr, Edinburgh in the Hidalgo, Santa Rita,
1231 Not | speaker can find a French edition, it might be nice to see
1232 XIII | necessary to issue fresh editions of these works.~Barbicane
1233 I | bloody reminiscences were effaced; the cotton-plants grew
1234 XXV | result, other than the more effectual ramming down of the charge
1235 IX | must therefore give up this efficient means of deadening the shock
1236 XXI | the president’s, his alter ego, his second self; if you
1237 IV | incomprehensible than the Egyptian Ibis, you can find what
1238 XVIII | distances, is inexplicable.”~“Eh! by Jove!” replied Michel
1239 XXV | veritable bed of explosive eider-down. Its pressure had no result,
1240 XXI | Lieutenant Bronsfield entered an eight-pared cutter, which soon brought
1241 V | feet.~At the close of the eighteenth century Herschel, armed
1242 III | pure Selenites.”~“In about eighty-eight hours,” replied the captain.~“
1243 XVII | extended from the pole to the eighty-fourth parallel, on the eastern
1244 XII | It was the widow’s mite— eighty-six piastres; but self-constituted
1245 VIII | foot high.”~“Lilliputians!” ejaculated Michel; “I shall play the
1246 XVI | 15th of August the vapors ejected had sensibly diminished
1247 II | project, the result of long elaboration, is the object of my present
1248 XXII | fastened upon a kind of elastic network, made of the best
1249 XXVI | watermen, magistrates, elbowed each other in the most free-and-easy
1250 I | If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries.
1251 I | count on my vote at the next election!”~“Nor on ours,” replied
1252 II | roared the assemblage, electrified by their president’s words.~“
1253 II | an inkstand of exquisite elegance, made of a beautifully chased
1254 IX | the first days the liquid element should be found wanting
1255 IX | matter which constitutes the elementary tissues of vegetable? This
1256 XX | was then ten at night. The eleventh day of the month of December
1257 XXIII | received as the prophet Elias would be if he came back
1258 Not | the end of lines have been eliminated to the best of my judgement.~>
1259 VII | gun of the fortress of St. Elmo which threw a projectile
1260 XI | the Hidalgo, Santa Rita, Elpanda, Brownsville in the Cameron,
1261 XV | And through a luminous emanation, which lasted some seconds,
1262 XX | notes, and Michel Ardan embalming the lunar solitudes with
1263 XII | not seem prudent to her to embark her capital in so hazardous
1264 XIII | There they immediately embarked on board the Tampico, a
1265 II | projectile, would have much embarrassed us, will give us the means
1266 XIX | exhibited not the slightest embarrassment; he was just as gay, familiar,
1267 VII | began to acquire a degree of embonpoint which would have rendered
1268 XIII | natural harbor, formed by the embouchure of the River Hillisborough,
1269 I | companions were united in a last embrace.~“God preserve us!” said
1270 XX | to escape from the last embraces of his vigorous admirers.
1271 XI | absorbed, and whose waves emerge peacefully into the “Lake
1272 XX | earth’s inhabitants would emigrate to the moon!”~This conversation
1273 XVI | of promontory. Europe was emigrating to America.~Up to that time,
1274 XIV | departure resembled a perfect emigration.~On the 31st of October,
1275 XV | perched on a neighboring eminence, assisted at the operation.
1276 IV | found assembled all the most eminent men of science. Here is
1277 III | choicest leaves, of which the emperor of Russia had given some
1278 XX | his question with marked emphasis, adding, “We are here to
1279 II | the speaker, in a somewhat emphatic tone of voice, commenced
1280 XII | piastres; but self-constituted empires are always rather short
1281 IX | chemistry at Bale, proposed its employment for purposes of war. This
1282 IX | major. “The Armstrong cannon employs only seventy-five pounds
1283 VII | atmosphere, and water-courses emptying the mountain tributaries.
1284 XX | see my brave countrymen encamped at the bottom of some valley,
1285 XVII | No system of terrestrial encampment could equal these natural
1286 I | for the moment when we are encased to make this deplorable
1287 XVIII | projectile had passed the enceinte of Tycho, and Barbicane
1288 II | apparatus of the artillerist, enchanted the eye by this wonderful
1289 Not | marker. >I’ve used ‘ and ‘ to enclose (recursive) quotes. Ascii
1290 XI | dedicated to the ladies,” encloses smaller seas, whose significant
1291 I | returned to camp with a word of encouragement from Sherman or a friendly
1292 III | persuasion, Michel Ardan encouraging her with most gracious words.~“
1293 III | called her by all kinds of endearing names. Between eight o’clock
1294 XX | he passed the night in endeavoring to discover a means of evading
1295 XIII | detached in the midst of endless plains over which ranged
1296 V | the laudable intention of endowing the Selenite smoking divans
1297 XIV | temperature was no longer endurable. Its tenants would have
1298 XXII | subject to giddiness, would endure this experimental voyage.~
1299 XIII | depths of the circle of Endymion, to the east of the “Cold
1300 XIX | orbit!”~“Hurrah!” roared an energetic voice, “let us unite our
1301 XXIII | putting it to the proof was energetically claimed by J. T. Maston.~“
1302 I | grazing, plunging, oblique, or enfilading, or point-blank firing,
1303 XXI | scuttles, at the same time enforcing his argument by a series
1304 XII | years and eleven days.~The engagement of the workmen, their pay,
1305 XXV | earth to fulfill all his engagements.~“Now,” said Michel Ardan, “
1306 II | enterprises; an essentially New Englander, a Northern colonist, a
1307 XXVIII| pens of the day, strongly engrossed the public attention.~It
1308 VI | through the scuttle? What enjoyment it would be to feel oneself
1309 III | and religious societies enlarged upon its advantages; and
1310 VII | simplifying things. And what enlargement do you expect to obtain
1311 IX | destructive, and ends by enlarging the bore of the pieces.”~“
1312 XIV | Orleans. His object was to enlist an army of workmen, and
1313 XIV | by the Gun Club, he had enlisted a choice legion of stokers,
1314 III | an old French refrain to enliven the situation.~Barbicane
1315 X | origin of this solitary enmity, the cause of its personality
1316 XIX | astronomers’ language is enriched, if the projectile remains
1317 I | having served first as an ensign; which is as much as to
1318 XXI | dodge with his enemy, or ensnare him, would not even maneuver!
1319 XX | were still out, which would entail some hours’ work. According
1320 V | atmosphere. The absence of air entails the absence of water. It
1321 XXI | this snare, with its wings entangled, was a poor little bird,
1322 II | bear upon the very rashest enterprises; an essentially New Englander,
1323 XVIII | moreover, being equally enterprising and daring, each in his
1324 XIV | leaves our bodies briskly or enters briskly, it is exactly the
1325 XXII | of celebrity. Managers of entertainments wanted to exhibit him. Barnum
1326 XXVI | plate which covered the entrance-aperture. The mouth of the Columbiad,
1327 X | Nicholl, driven into his last entrenchments, and not able to fight personally
1328 XXII | ingenuity of the savants entrusted with the use of them, the
1329 II | president’s words.~“I have now enumerated,” said Barbicane, “the experiments
1330 XXII | For instance, during an epidemic in 1693, a large number
1331 XIV | fortunate in warding off the epidemics common to large communities
1332 V | space during the chaotic epoch of the universe. Little
1333 XXVI | of which the value only equaled the execrable taste. Women,
1334 XVII | surrounding plain was far from equaling the depth of its crater.
1335 XIX | fact would alone suffice to equalize the heat, and to render
1336 XIII | every latitude. Above the equatorial regions the radiant orb
1337 IV | earth and moon will be in equilibrio. From this point it will
1338 XIV | reason of the succession of equinoxes, will resign their part
1339 VIII | first second. That is almost equivalent to a state of perfect rest.
1340 VI | fears proved less easy to eradicate.~For instance, some worthy
1341 XIII | I mistake not, we shall ere long find a suitable spot
1342 XXIV | and required an immense erection of brick work and masonry
1343 XVI | secretary, like a modern Erostratus, would have found his death
1344 V | itself, to which the hitherto errant atoms became obedient: these
1345 XVIII | kind of moraines, rows of erratic blocks, which had been thrown
1346 XXI | first telegram to the world, erroneously affirming that the projectile
1347 I | members of the Gun Club, erstwhile so noisy in their seances,
1348 XII | one instant two or three eruptive cones, like enormous dazzling
1349 XXIII | recoil after the complete escapement of the water; but the first
1350 IX | is another reason, but it escapes me.”~“Are we not arriving
1351 V | the plane of the equator, escaping like a stone from a sling
1352 XIV | amid the cold, like the Esquimaux of the north pole. No, indeed!
1353 XXIV | period when the Gun Club essayed their great experiment,
1354 VI | gravitation. This was an essential condition to the success
1355 XII | twenty-two astronomical establishments of Great Britain, it spoke
1356 XIX | Barbicane had no means of estimating the projectile’s speed,
1357 I | chief place of favor.~The estimation in which these gentlemen
1358 XIX | will be identified with eternal wisdom!”~“In fact,” interrupted
1359 XXVIII| around the lunar disc to all eternity.~With such alternatives,
1360 VII | him? What am I saying? to etherize him, as here ether takes
1361 XVII | eruptions of Vesuvius and Etna, we find them little more
1362 V | Scientific men like Archimedes, Euclid, Pascal, Newton?”~“I could
1363 I | singularly distanced the Europeans was in the science of gunnery.
1364 XX | endeavoring to discover a means of evading the recoil of the projectile,
1365 XV | their wreaths of smoke, evaporated the moisture of the mould
1366 XIV | degrees. This heat was rapidly evaporating into space by radiation,
1367 XI | claims of both States were evenly balanced. As for political
1368 I | alone separate us from an eventful moment. One clasp of the
1369 VIII | the earth, and fall with ever-increasing speed on to the surface
1370 | everyone
1371 | Everywhere
1372 XVII | accustomed ardor, maintained “the evidences” of his fortress. Beneath
1373 X | victorious, and could not evince contempt enough for his
1374 XXIV | toward the moon the observers evinced both curiosity and anxiety.
1375 VIII | move, for the projectile’s evolution will be imperceptible.”~“
1376 XXI | night,” cried J. T. Maston, ex abrupto, “our president
1377 V | have been determined with exactitude. Galileo explained the phenomena
1378 V | Barbicane, “it was greatly exagerated; but now, after the calculations
1379 V | At the same period the examination of the moon was completed.
1380 XXV | travelers being desirous of examing the moon carefully during
1381 XX | Turn him out!” roared the exasperated crowd.~But he, holding firmly
1382 XIV | 400 cubic feet of earth to excavate in 255 days; that is to
1383 XIV | moment in the hands of the excavators. The gangs relieved each
1384 X | circumstance; and unless by some exceptional event, they could now never
1385 III | represented French loquacity and excitability, and we beg you to believe
1386 XIII | Barbicane quickly.~“Do not excite yourself, my worthy president,”
1387 XV | depth of 900 feet. It was an exciting and a magnificent spectacle.
1388 XIII | usual readiness, hastened to exclaim:~“Look there! cultivated
1389 VI | and suddenly they heard an exclamation of surprise!~“What is it?”
1390 XXII | persist, and in spite of the exclamations of the worthy secretary,
1391 II | hall. That was reserved exclusively for resident or corresponding
1392 XVII | toward it, and the interior excrescences of its crater, photography
1393 XXVI | the value only equaled the execrable taste. Women, children,
1394 XXI | passed their existence, execrating the day which hid the moon
1395 XIV | follows the projectile with exemplary docility; and a quarter
1396 XXII | prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence
1397 VI | some mysterious influence exercised by her over human destinies—
1398 XVI | days afterward the earth exhaled only a slight puff of smoke,
1399 VIII | it would derive. From an exhausted nation they might make a
1400 XXVI | appetite that threatened speedy exhaustion of the victualing powers
1401 VI | that the Queen of Night exhibits her different phases; that
1402 XXVII | The gases of the powder, expanded by heat, forced back the
1403 III | previous evening; but its expanse was still enormous, compared
1404 XII | was successful beyond all expectation; notwithstanding that it
1405 XXI | bushes, and momentarily expecting to hear the sound of rifles.
1406 XV | visited it in our exploring expeditions on the lunar globe. So that
1407 I | quantity of projectiles expended.~One day, however— sad and
1408 XII | projectile, and incipient expenses, would, according to the
1409 XXII | at that moment they were experiencing the first approach of suffocation;
1410 VI | my worthy friend; for it explains every phenomenon of caloric.
1411 XIX | time while I offer some explanations regarding the projects which
1412 VI | exclaimed Michel.~“Why that expletive?” asked Barbicane.~“Because
1413 XXV | cause the gun-cotton to explode!~Fortunately this did not
1414 XV | could have visited it in our exploring expeditions on the lunar
1415 XXVI | or the blast of volcanic explosions! No words can convey the
1416 I | one of the most scientific exponents of the Gun Club, was “proportional
1417 XXVIII| a mistake in such a case exposes himself justly to the derision
1418 XIII | pistols in his holsters.~On expressing his surprise at these preparations,
1419 I | their counters to become extemporized captains, colonels, and
1420 XVII | occupied the eastern border, extending from the 65@ of latitude
1421 XIX | bodies evidently formed exteriorly of our terrestrial globe,
1422 XV | block of metal, leaving no external projection.~This operation
1423 XVI | They proceeded at once to extract the interior mould, for
1424 II | balloon filled with a gas extracted from nitrogen, thirty-seven
1425 IX | you push your theory to extremes, my dear major,” said J.
1426 XX | and without exhibiting any exultation at the advantage he had
1427 XV | through their half-open eyelids upon that asteroid heated
1428 II | century a certain David Fabricius boasted of having seen with
1429 III | for many weeks he realized fabulous profits.~
1430 XIV | lined throughout with its facing of stone, had attained the
1431 IX | director of the gunpowder factories during the war.~“Gentlemen,”
1432 XIII | manager of the Coldspring factory.~On the following day, the
1433 VIII | his moral and quarrelsome faculties— he understood all.~“The
1434 XVIII | the moon: the lineaments faded away from the travelers’
1435 XXI | there, occupied in selling fagots from trees that had been
1436 II | The instrument showed 81@ Fahr.~“Yes,” he exclaimed, “yes,
1437 XIX | round an attracting body fails in this law. Every orbit
1438 XVIII | fingers behind him, was fain at last to make a bolt for
1439 XXII | celebrated Bacon always fainted during an eclipse. Charles
1440 XII | great exactness; and they faithfully reproduced the different
1441 III | boxes, singing in one of the falsest of voices an old French
1442 XIV | these people brought their families with them, their departure
1443 VII | existed. In any case, the far-seeing Frenchman had taken care
1444 XVIII | the whole thing became a farce, or, in plainer language
1445 XVI | of the colossal gun. The fare for the descent was fixed
1446 XII | did not subscribe a single farthing.~At this intimation the
1447 II | strengthened with upper fastenings, closed it tightly. Beneath
1448 XXVI | surrounded their husbands, fathers, or masters, who resembled
1449 XXI | Ardan was resting from the fatigues of his triumph. Resting
1450 XIX | ears, and please excuse the faults of the speaker. Now pray
1451 XXII | longer animated by either fauna or flora. By the light of
1452 XII | is, that science is not favorably regarded in that country,
1453 XIV | allow that the astronomers Faye, Charconac, and Secchi,
1454 XXII | fellow-countryman, the Marquis de la Fayette, the government had decreed
1455 XIX | following day Barbicane, fearing that indiscreet questions
1456 XXV | he could not trust this fearless smoker, and was therefore
1457 III | the elements of this first feast.~The breakfast began with
1458 XIV | January.~During the month of February the workmen had to contend
1459 XVI | ne plus ultra of earthly felicity. Consequently, there was
1460 XVIII | physiognomy essentially feline. His nose was firmly shaped,
1461 XXVII | projectile over the heads of his fellow-citizens. Three hundred thousand
1462 XXII | example of his illustrious fellow-countryman, the Marquis de la Fayette,
1463 XII | one day by useful to our fellow-men. Let us keep our minds free
1464 XXII | apparent— the cat had eaten its fellow-traveler!~J. T. Maston grieved much
1465 VII | his foot as if he was in a fencing saloon; “I do not know.”~“
1466 XX | went well, and with all the fervor of a Presbyterian, he did
1467 XVI | surface of the earth!~The festival was animated, not to say
1468 XI | of Rains,” fed by all the fever of existence. Near this
1469 XXII | numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other
1470 III | stirred in their innermost fibres. A national enterprise was
1471 Not | there. Close enough for fiction, but I am sure they would
1472 XXV | reproduced with scrupulous fidelity the smallest details of
1473 XX | meeting began to be somewhat fidgety also, for the contest directed
1474 V | that of Copernicus in the fifteenth and Tycho Brahe in the sixteenth
1475 XIII | morning, at the height of the fiftieth parallel, the distance was
1476 II | Michel. Listen to me. It is fifty-five minutes past ten; we have
1477 XII | of money.~Two hundred and fifty-seven francs, this was the modest
1478 XII | florins— a perfect godsend.~Fifty-two thousand rix-dollars were
1479 XIII | orange-trees, citrons, figs, olives, apricots, bananas,
1480 I | field of battle whose names figured in the “Book of Honor” of
1481 XV | diameter, which should exactly fill up the space reserved for
1482 II | purity. Her rays, no longer filtered through the vapory atmosphere
1483 XII | finally came the question of finance. The sum required was far
1484 VI | there are eclipses, the moon finds itself beyond the cone of
1485 II | octant, and showed a crescent finely traced on the dark background
1486 I | inventors of revolvers, fire-shooting carbines, and similar small
1487 I | of a cannon, at least a firearm of some description. It
1488 I | carbonizing his wooden legs in the fireplace of the smoking-room; “nothing
1489 XV | furnaces, constructed of fireproof brick, were especially adapted
1490 XVI | expansion, since this inimitable firework, which no Ruggieri could
1491 XX | demonstrate theoretically that fishes were never made to live
1492 XXII | which it was plunged.~But fishing-up the projectile was not the
1493 VII | followed the capricious fissures which wound through the
1494 VI | than half, that is to say, five-sevenths, to be seen.~As soon as
1495 V | Barbicane, “the sea covers five-sixths of our globe. From that
1496 XVIII | with arms crossed, looked fixedly at the passenger of the
1497 Not | inserted for “meters” without >fixing the numbers. These might
1498 II | the shock at all; their fixtures were intact.~On the movable
1499 XXIII | platforms, lined with the same flags, and decorated with the
1500 III | nebulous masses like large flakes of starry snow; and from
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