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2501 XIII | followed who studied them, as Pastorff, Gruithuysen, Boeer, and
2502 XII | the southern hemisphere (Patagonia for example), the moon’s
2503 III | the quays bordering the Patapsco, the ships lying in the
2504 XXI | followed the barely perceptible paths along which Indians had
2505 XIV | enough to aggravate the most patient observers. It was just that
2506 XIX | said Nicholl.~“Let us wait patiently,” continued Barbicane. “
2507 XXVI | masters, who resembled the patriarchs of tribes in the midst of
2508 XIX | Redemption, according to St. Paul, seems to be applicable,
2509 XIX | feet, will arrive on the pavement at a speed of 240 miles
2510 III | rather lose an arm than a paw of my poor Satellite.”~Saying
2511 XII | five per cent. discount for paying ready money.~Denmark, a
2512 II | fact, a thunderstorm did peal forth, but it was the thunder
2513 XV | struck! A gunshot suddenly pealed forth and shot its flame
2514 III | planet we should have green peas in twenty-four hours. I
2515 VIII | these earthly-winged animals pecking in your lunar fields!”~“
2516 XVIII | breaks the mould.~Among other peculiarities, this curiosity gave himself
2517 I | in two some unoffending pedestrians. These inventions, in fact,
2518 XIII | succeeded in frightening some pelicans and teal, while tall flamingos
2519 XII | game of spelikans thrown pellmell. There wants but the hook
2520 IX | 1838 another Frenchman, Pelouze, investigated its different
2521 XII | in good condition under penalty of a forfeit of one hundred
2522 II | moving! This stifling heat, penetrating through the partitions of
2523 XI | coasts are rich in gulfs and peninsulas. They remind one of the
2524 XX | disturbance in the air. The pennant hung motionless from the
2525 XXIII | through the east of the Union, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts,
2526 XXVIII| debated by the most learned pens of the day, strongly engrossed
2527 XXII | mortar from the arsenal of Pensacola. He had this placed on the
2528 XIII | produces the umbrae and penumbrae, and all the magic of chiaro-oscuro,
2529 III | We inhabit a new world, peopled by ourselves— the projectile!
2530 IV | inhabitant of the earth perceives its speed, which, however,
2531 XII | hundred miles. Barbicane, now perceiving that the projectile was
2532 IX | But the projectile was perceptibly nearing the moon, and evidently
2533 VIII | companions had a most desired perception of a new phenomenon. From
2534 II | And the moon; will she perchance fail at our rendezvous?”~“
2535 XVII | sheets, as mentioned by Pere Secchi. With more certainty
2536 I | remaining years of our life in perfecting firearms? Shall there never
2537 II | Baudoin, published a ‘Journey performed from the Earth to the Moon
2538 XIII | region of forests. There perfumes of the most varied kinds
2539 XVI | bodies might create serious perils for the travelers. They
2540 XIX | farthest point, and in its “periselene” at its nearest. In the
2541 VI | not complain; they must be perished with cold on their planets.”~“
2542 XXI | the Gun Club constituted a permanent danger for the Honorable
2543 VI | CHAPTER VI~PERMISSIVE LIMITS OF IGNORANCE AND
2544 VI | termed her libration, she permits rather more than half, that
2545 IX | replied Barbicane. “The perpendicularity of the gun was exact, its
2546 XX | rather, no, only one! If you persevere in your enterprise, you
2547 XXII | Blomsberry could no longer persist, and in spite of the exclamations
2548 XVIII | having doubtless remained persistently for millions of centuries;
2549 I | paid heavily, in propria persona, for their inventions. Among
2550 X | enmity, the cause of its personality and old standing, and in
2551 XVII | disappear, the foreshortening of perspective disappears, and all proofs
2552 V | on which large drops of perspiration were standing, he put some
2553 VI | I am swimming, when I am perspiring in large drops, why am I
2554 III | though not without much persuasion, Michel Ardan encouraging
2555 XVI | the ardor of the work, so persuasive the arguments of Barbicane’
2556 XII | America, that is to say, Peru, Chili, Brazil, the provinces
2557 Not | trouble, >and might be a perversion of the original work. I
2558 XXI | even the bursting of his pet gun, which had more than
2559 XIII | cavities, such as Posidonius or Petavius; there they wound through
2560 II | a French astronomer, M. Petit, was able to determine the
2561 XIV | a kind of rock formed of petrified shells, very dry, very solid,
2562 II | add that a certain Hans Pfaal, of Rotterdam, launching
2563 V | that they have artists like Phidias, Michael Angelo, or Raphael?”~“
2564 XIII | circles. Toward the 60@ Philolaus stood predominant at a height
2565 V | Hugo?”~“I am sure of it.”~“Philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes,
2566 XIX | exclaimed Michel Ardan, adding philosophically, “well, when we came into
2567 VIII | amusing piece of natural philosophy.”~And immediately divers
2568 IX | savant like Barbicane, a phlegmatic being like Nicholl, or an
2569 XVI | Union, the Moon, Diana, Phoebe, Selene, the “peaceful courier
2570 V | writers like Arnal, and photographers like— like Nadar?”~“Certain.”~“
2571 XVII | marvelous if reproduced with photographic exactness. It is but a group
2572 Not | I have >inserted a {sic phrase} in the line. I am using %
2573 XV | spectral appearance which physicians produce with the fictitious
2574 XVIII | near-sighted, completed a physiognomy essentially feline. His
2575 XXII | They hurried toward him, picked him up, restored him to
2576 XXV | intruders, and carefully picking up the still lighted cigar
2577 XVII | over this soil covered with picturesque projections! Indeed, nature
2578 II | ancient and modern, were picturesquely interlaced against the walls.
2579 XIV | iron plates, separately pieced and numbered. At the same
2580 XIX | Swedenborg, Bernardin de St. Pierre, and others have, if I mistake
2581 XXI | that country, as large as a pigeon’s egg, and armed with enormous
2582 VIII | should be nothing more than a pigmy, a shrimp!”~“Gulliver with
2583 XVI | procession, or rather, in fact, a pilgrimage.~It was already clear to
2584 II | the activity which we all pine for.”~The meeting felt that
2585 XIII | prairies abounding with pineapples and yams, tobacco, rice,
2586 XIII | we are at the region of pines!”~“Yes! and of savages too,”
2587 X | Barbicane stuck like so many pins in the Nicholl plates. On
2588 Not | inspiring the early rocket pioneers, and ultimately >today’s
2589 VIII | Maston. “As well take a pistol.”~“I think so too,” replied
2590 V | else. I would give twenty pistoles if we could fall upon the
2591 I | by the great statistician Pitcairn that throughout the Gun
2592 XXVII | advance of the mass, was pitched back 120 feet, shooting
2593 XX | platform seemed seized with pitching and rolling like a weatherbeaten
2594 VII | sister of Apollo. A very pitted face!”~But the travelers,
2595 VI | Nicholl.~“Well, then, I am a plagiarist.”~“No doubt about it. According
2596 XVIII | thing became a farce, or, in plainer language a humbug.~One question,
2597 IV | cabalistic to you, form the plainest, the clearest, and the most
2598 III | advanced by degrees, uttering plaintive cries.~“Good,” said Barbicane: “
2599 III | upon it as if it were solid plank; but the sun striking it
2600 XII | Brazil, the provinces of La Plata and Columbia, had poured
2601 XVII | a palace, in another the plateau for a citadel; the whole
2602 XIII | that among these elevated plateaus we shall have a much easier
2603 XXIII | flying rails; and on all the platforms, lined with the same flags,
2604 V | it.”~“Philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant?”~“
2605 I | up wholly to dreams of a Platonic kind of artillery.~“This
2606 X | evidently hit upon the only plausible reason of this deviation.
2607 III | unlucky director to alter his playbill. Being a sensible man, he
2608 VI | the “sun of the wolves” played a part; they recalled the
2609 XVI | another manner, and much more pleasantly,” answered the careless
2610 XX | Sir,” replied Michel, “pleasantry apart, I have a profound
2611 XII | The Germanic Confederation pledged itself to 34,285 florins.
2612 X | Indeed the moon, liquid and pliable in the first days of its
2613 XIII | shrugging his shoulders.~“Plowed, at all events,” retorted
2614 IV | hammer, or a plow without a plowshare?”~“Hardly.”~“Well, algebra
2615 XIII | little world of brilliantly plumaged birds.~J. T. Maston and
2616 XI | part of the size.~Texas plumed itself upon its 330,000
2617 XIV | seconds had sufficed to plunge it into the absolute darkness
2618 II | named Fontenelle, wrote ‘The Plurality of Worlds,’ a chef-d’oeuvre
2619 XVI | to the Americans the ne plus ultra of earthly felicity.
2620 XVII | presented when under the Plutonian forces.~The distance which
2621 Not | in >small caps. >AM and PM are always in small caps,
2622 I | howitzers, and mortars are mere pocket-pistols compared with the formidable
2623 II | carefully placed it in his pocketbook. Michel Ardan, taking off
2624 XII | found 200,000 lire in the pockets of her people. If she had
2625 VII | let us quit the domain of poetry and come direct to the question.”~“
2626 V | Angelo, or Raphael?”~“Yes.”~“Poets like Homer, Virgil, Milton,
2627 XVI | had acquired a thorough polish.~At length, on the 22d of
2628 X | captain had it conveyed to the Polygon at Washington, challenging
2629 XIII | forests were composed of pomegranates, orange-trees, citrons,
2630 XIII | Sunday, in 1512, by Juan Ponce de Leon, was originally
2631 II | gun-carriage, was modeled upon the ponderous proportions of a 32-inch
2632 III | about Nothing.” But the populace, seeing in that title an
2633 XVIII | But then the two rivals in popularity shook hands heartily and
2634 XI | being much more densely populated with 56,000.~The Texans,
2635 XXIII | the other, finding whole populations at table on their road,
2636 VIII | Michel; “one would want a portable crane. However, we will
2637 VIII | degrees.”~“Then all our portables will be upset from top to
2638 II | fear. Now, what is this portentous globe which nearly struck
2639 III | shopkeepers, merchants, porters, chair-men, as well as “
2640 II | back upon its hinges like a porthole, and the lenticular glass
2641 XVII | the still intact arch of a portico, there two or three columns
2642 XXII | sold of all size, and his portrait taken in every imaginable
2643 XII | 7,040 Roman crowns; and Portugal carried her devotion to
2644 XIII | ordinary cavities, such as Posidonius or Petavius; there they
2645 XX | pronounce with absolute positiveness against the existence of
2646 XVIII | a kind of Icarus, only possessing relays of wings. For the
2647 XXV | us confine ourselves to possibilities.”~After a prolonged discussion,
2648 XXVI | fish chowder, underdone ‘possum, and raccoon steaks. And
2649 VII | be able to laugh at the post-office administration! But now
2650 XX | young man quickly. “The postal administration has something
2651 XVII | dazzling Tycho, in which posterity will ever preserve the name
2652 VII | these meteors are handy postmen, and cost nothing. And how
2653 XXII | taken in every imaginable posture. More than half a million
2654 XXVI | leathern gaiters on his legs, pouch by his side, in loose velvet
2655 IV | honor to the proudest of poultry-yards.~The two Americans could
2656 XXVI | marvelous shape, mortars for pounding sugar, and bundles of straws! “
2657 II | expansive force of gunpowder are practically unlimited. Well! starting
2658 II | project was never put into practice, and up to the present day
2659 VIII | the wonderful suspension practiced by Caston and Robert Houdin.
2660 II | And the two improvised practitioners worked so hard and so well
2661 XX | for the steward no end of praise, and turned in, not without
2662 XXVI | laughing, joking, playing pranks with J. T. Maston. In one
2663 VIII | Barbicane, without further preamble, “the subject now before
2664 VII | the projectile must take precedence of that of the cannon, and
2665 XI | rivalry entirely without precedent between the different towns
2666 Not | hash-marks >$ae $‘e dollar-sign preceeds ligatures and accented characters. >
2667 XXI | some frightened deer fled precipitately before them.~For another
2668 VIII | great precision, so as to preclude any possible windage. So
2669 XV | foremen and workmen waited the preconcerted moment with an impatience
2670 I | and our bellicose Tribune predicts some approaching catastrophes
2671 XIX | The assembly, strongly predisposed as they were in favor of
2672 XIII | the 60@ Philolaus stood predominant at a height of 5,550 feet
2673 IX | nearer point the weight, predominating, would cause a decided fall.~
2674 XXVIII| THIS WORK, AND SERVING AS A PREFACE TO THE SECOND~During the
2675 XV | of material. It appeared preferable to freight vessels at New
2676 XI | decide to which to give the preference.~Texas produced its array
2677 II | disdaining scientific reasonings, preferred thinking that the earth
2678 XVII | as a bed to the rivers of prehistorical times. Not far from that,
2679 XXI | in the act of reading the premature dispatch, in which J. T.
2680 VII | other.~But in spite of his preoccupation, Michel Ardan did not forget
2681 XI | balanced. As for political prepossessions, they had nothing to do
2682 XX | with all the fervor of a Presbyterian, he did not forget to thank
2683 IX | quantity of powder, while preserving to it its mechanical power.”~“
2684 XV | steam boilers, hydraulic presses, and the like.~Cast iron,
2685 XXI | Forward, then,” said Ardan, pressing his companion’s hand.~A
2686 XI | opening the discussion, “I presume that we are all agreed that
2687 XIII | vividly marked. Julius Schmidt pretends that, if the terrestrial
2688 XII | Americans. The moon served as a pretext for a thousand stale puns
2689 VIII | the lunar attraction was prevailing over the terrestrial; the
2690 XIV | contact with the glass, preventing all observation.~Nicholl
2691 XIX | twenty-two hours.~The rockets had primarily been placed to check the
2692 XVI | even if the cannon— loaded, primed, and fired at that very
2693 X | This alteration in the primitive form of the satellite was
2694 XVIII | the insufficiency of the primordial attraction; and then by
2695 XIV | and from that moment that prince of tools was never inactive
2696 XXIII | projectile. Now air consists principally of twenty-one parts of oxygen
2697 XII | behalf of their respective principals.~
2698 Not | one case) and probably a printers error?~><delta> indicates
2699 XX | moon. I might say that, a priori, if one ever did exist,
2700 VIII | to her; it would be the prisoner set at liberty; no more
2701 XV | should prefer its being done privately. At the discharge of the
2702 XVI | members of the Gun Club. This privilege was justly reserved for
2703 XX | eclipse of July 18, 1860, probed that the horns of the lunar
2704 VIII | otherwise than as insignificant. Proceding, then, to the attraction
2705 VIII | in their coop. But while proceeding with this operation, Barbicane
2706 XV | must not be in a hurry to proclaim the existence of a lunar
2707 XXIII | and fire and light were procurable by means of gas, contained
2708 XIII | broadcast with careless prodigality.~Barbicane appeared highly
2709 XIII | where are united all the productions of the northern and tropical
2710 VI | which no one could decently profess ignorance. Still, while
2711 XVIII | gunnery; but when a person, professing to be a reasonable being,
2712 I | making their debut in the profession of arms up to those who
2713 II | character one must look at his profile, Barbicane, so examined,
2714 XX | American “goatee” beard. Profiting by the different movements
2715 III | weeks he realized fabulous profits.~
2716 XI | which, it will be seen, was profoundly sagacious.~“On carefully
2717 V | that you will leave no progeny in the lunar regions!”~Indeed
2718 Not | ultimately >today’s space program. As “literary” history,
2719 XIII | pleased on observing the progressive elevation of the land; and
2720 VIII | business, then, is to overcome progressively this action of gravitation.
2721 XIX | explanations regarding the projects which seem to have so interested
2722 XI | cannon.~The rival parties promenaded the streets with arms in
2723 X | recognize their nature. The prominence of the mountains disappeared
2724 XIX | general brilliancy Tycho shone prominently like a sun.~Barbicane had
2725 XXII | dismissed the deputation with promises to convey numbers of messages
2726 XVI | upon this narrow strip of promontory. Europe was emigrating to
2727 XXVIII| president, Barbicane, the promoter of the enterprise, having
2728 Not | are left in for the next proofer to turn into CAPS for PG.~>#
2729 I | The two dogs, destined to propagate the canine race on the lunar
2730 IV | The projectile ought to be propelled with an initial velocity
2731 X | greater than that which propels our express trains. The
2732 IX | satisfy his artillerist’s propensities. I only keep to statistical
2733 IX | by moisture— a valuable property to us, inasmuch as it would
2734 XX | unknown, for truly your prophecies are most agreeable!”~“It
2735 XXIII | fail to be received as the prophet Elias would be if he came
2736 VII | the weight of a shot is proportionate to its volume, an iron ball
2737 II | Ardan lifted the captain, propped him up against the divan,
2738 I | that they paid heavily, in propria persona, for their inventions.
2739 XI | speaking thus, Michel made his prosaic companions shrug their shoulders.
2740 V | the phases, with black. On prosecuting the study of these with
2741 I | lost!”~“Ay! and no war in prospect!” continued the famous James
2742 XXVII | women children, all lay prostrate like ears of corn under
2743 I | elasticity will sufficiently protect us?”~“I hope so, Michel,”
2744 IX | the bottom; outside, they protruded about eighteen inches. There
2745 I | little facts, and felt justly proud when the despatches of a
2746 IV | would have done honor to the proudest of poultry-yards.~The two
2747 XII | Peru, Chili, Brazil, the provinces of La Plata and Columbia,
2748 III | found “by chance” in the provision-box. The three friends drank
2749 XIX | our rockets we may perhaps provoke a fall directly on the surface
2750 XII | send their money to Sweden.~Prussia, by a remittance of 250,
2751 I | the English, French, and Prussians have nothing to learn; but
2752 XII | volcanoes on its right, Ptolemy, Purbach, Arzachel. But
2753 XXIII | high. Indeed, during the publication of “A Journey to the Moon,”
2754 Not | mile, foot, CF> ><contact publisher for translator information> ><
2755 XVI | earth exhaled only a slight puff of smoke, the last breath
2756 XIV | temperature. Then it was rapidly pulled in.~Barbicane calculated
2757 I | frightful danger added no pulsation.~Three thick and solidly-made
2758 XIV | to employ very powerful pumps and compressed-air engines
2759 VII | repast with his accustomed punctuality. They ate with a good appetite.
2760 XII | pretext for a thousand stale puns and a score of ballads,
2761 XI | ironically, of one of his pupils.~“No, sir!” replied the
2762 XII | volcanoes on its right, Ptolemy, Purbach, Arzachel. But the projectile
2763 XXVI | upward in a heaven of the purest clearness, outshining in
2764 III | completely absorbed it, thus purifying the air.~An inventory of
2765 XX | intelligent Cyrus Field, purposed even covering all the islands
2766 IX | proposed its employment for purposes of war. This powder, now
2767 XII | liberality; others untied their purse-strings with less facility—a matter
2768 XXVIII| velocity, and it is now pursuing an elliptical orbit round
2769 IX | asked the president.~“If you push your theory to extremes,
2770 II | President Barbicane; all pushing, squeezing, crushing with
2771 IV | defined the rule as a Chinese puzzle, which allowed one to obtain
2772 XXVII | At the moment when that pyramid of fire rose to a prodigious
2773 XVIII | breaking against the chain of Pyrenees, after a circuit of 800
2774 VII | the heat of the gas by the pyrometer. Everything had gone well
2775 I | condition was imposed as a sine qua non upon every candidate
2776 XV | plan, each with its high quadrangular chimney, they produced a
2777 VIII | that is why I propose to quadruple that length, and to construct
2778 VII | charge; they could have quadrupled or quintupled it!” exclaimed
2779 XXII | words?~“Ah! trebly brutes! quadruply idiots! quintuply boobies
2780 XIV | times greater than that qualified by atmospheric strata— the
2781 VIII | overexcitement of all his moral and quarrelsome faculties— he understood
2782 XX | the lieutenant mounted the quarterdeck.~“What depth have we?” asked
2783 XXVI | passion for play seemed quelled for the time under the general
2784 X | was said in a tone which quenched Michel Ardan’s last hope.~
2785 XVIII | answers to the following queries:~“About the ship Atlanta—
2786 XXV | in the moon. Ardan never questioned this; indeed, had he done
2787 XX | if Michel Ardan had not quieted it by a gesture. He was
2788 VII | could have quadrupled or quintupled it!” exclaimed Michel, with
2789 XXII | brutes! quadruply idiots! quintuply boobies that we are!”~“What
2790 VIII | are well aware that a shot quits a rifled gun less rapidly
2791 XII | had poured forth their quota into their hands, the sum
2792 XX | that description, and I can quote, in support of my statement,
2793 Not | to enclose (recursive) quotes. Ascii has no provision >
2794 XXVI | underdone ‘possum, and raccoon steaks. And as for the liquors
2795 XXVII | armed with telescopes and race-glasses, were questioning space,
2796 XVIII | animals: but I add that these races, human and animal, have
2797 XXI | distinguishable in this racket, which was rather too early
2798 XXIII | It was upon this kind of raft that the travelers were
2799 XXI | set off at once; and the railroad, which will soon cross the
2800 XXIII | States were joined by flying rails; and on all the platforms,
2801 XI | the “Gulf of Dew!” Clouds, rain, storms, and humors— does
2802 XXI | moments, when contradictions rained like hail, the well-known
2803 X | Barbicane’s project had rallied round its author. There
2804 XIX | the gunner, we had better ram the gunner into the gun.
2805 XII | her years and her fast of Ramadan. She could not do less than
2806 II | Gun Club, assortments of rammers and sponges, chaplets of
2807 XXV | than the more effectual ramming down of the charge in the
2808 XXII | this object straying at random on the waves.~All looked
2809 XX | tremendous roar of laughter rang in the ears of the mysterious
2810 XXIII | would have placed in the rank of demigods.~And now will
2811 IX | that this story ought to be ranked among the legends of the
2812 XXIV | impenetrable forests, fearful rapids, far from all centers of
2813 XX | the air will be terribly rarified.”~“My good sir, there will
2814 XX | is, probably, of extreme rarity; nevertheless at the present
2815 II | ideas to bear upon the very rashest enterprises; an essentially
2816 XIV | with their lives for the rashness inherent in these dangerous
2817 IV | and algebraic formula, are rattling in my head like nails in
2818 VI | if only at the bottom of ravines, where its own weight will
2819 XIV | Murchison, the engineer, re-embarked on board the Tampico for
2820 XXVI | It was a perfect Babel re-enacted. All the various classes
2821 VI | demonstrated that this path is a re-entering curve, not a perfect circle,
2822 VI | will accompany it until it reaches the moon.”~“Ah! fools that
2823 II | hours passed upon earth, reaction was inevitable.~“Well,”
2824 XIII | Michel, with his usual readiness, hastened to exclaim:~“Look
2825 IX | existed; they had only to readjust them and replace the movable
2826 VIII | Gulliver. We are going to realize the fable of the giants.
2827 XVII | must the Selenites wait the reappearance of the orb of day.”~“Yes,”
2828 XIV | the moment when the sun reappears in its turn!”~“Nicely worded!”
2829 III | himself. He arranged and rearranged, he plunged his hand rapidly
2830 XVIII | person, professing to be a reasonable being, offered to take passage
2831 XIV | observed Michel, “we cannot reasonably complain of the monotony
2832 XIX | great a speed.”~“Very well reasoned,” said Nicholl.~“Let us
2833 IV | object. His first care was to reassemble his colleagues in the board-room
2834 I | CLUB~During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club
2835 II | companions had the effect of recalling him to his senses. In any
2836 XVIII | there will be no need for recapitulation. So, if you have no objection,
2837 IV | sufficient. In proportion as we recede from the earth the action
2838 IV | nearer to, and at others it recedes farther from, the earth;
2839 II | the burner lighted it. The receiver had not suffered at all.
2840 III | placing on the floor several receivers containing caustic potash,
2841 XV | the metal to flow into the receiving troughs; and the 1,200 converging
2842 | recently
2843 I | the burner fixed to the receptacle, in which the carbonized
2844 XXVII | wounded, no doubt, by such a reception, showed itself very sparing
2845 XXVIII| most singular details. This recital will destroy many illusions
2846 XI | Florida, in its southern part, reckons no cities of importance;
2847 XIX | fine, that we cannot help recognizing in nature a diversity of
2848 II | the travelers had lost all recollection.~It was captain Nicholl
2849 XIX | a longing eye.~At times recollections of the earth crossed their
2850 Not | numbers. These might be safely recomputed without doing >violence
2851 XXVIII| himself carried in triumph, reconciled President Barbicane to his
2852 XVIII | in order not to have to reconsider his plans. This telegram
2853 XXIII | selenographic science, which had reconstructed the lunar world as Cuvier
2854 X | The result was the entire reconstruction of the navy of both the
2855 XXII | despite some remarkable recorded facts of history. For instance,
2856 I | four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready
2857 II | Permit me,” he continued, “to recount to you briefly how certain
2858 III | seemed unlikely that he could recover from such a shock. Meanwhile,
2859 XIX | do you mean by that?”~“No recrimination,” said Michel. “I do not
2860 XIX | necessary machines, and rectify the earth’s axis!”~A thunder
2861 XIX | of raising the earth and rectifying its axis. It was just this
2862 IX | it was probable that its rectilineal course would be changed
2863 XI | the same difficulties will recur with all the towns of the
2864 XX | nature, and of frequent recurrence, they attributed to thunderstorms
2865 Not | used ‘ and ‘ to enclose (recursive) quotes. Ascii has no provision >
2866 X | Columbiad, and fall back in a red-hot shower upon the heads of
2867 XIX | the scheme of the Divine Redemption, according to St. Paul,
2868 II | the critical point, and redoubled their attention accordingly.~“
2869 XIX | seconds, Barbicane had only to refer to his notes, and to reckon
2870 Not | There’s an incorrect reference to Nov. 30 in the early
2871 XVII | recognized without trouble, by referring to the Mappa Selenographica.~
2872 XV | second fusion completely to refine it by dispossessing it of
2873 XXII | furnished with powerful reflectors, they could see the dark
2874 Not | breaks.~Page #s and a full reformating has been done. Line widoworphans
2875 XIV | time, by reason of the rays refracted by its atmosphere, the terrestrial
2876 III | of voices an old French refrain to enliven the situation.~
2877 X | Barbicane still obstinate in refusal. A hundred yards? Not even
2878 VIII | to put itself under the regime of oxygen for the sake of
2879 XIII | thirty-two broad.~Barbicane regretted that they were not passing
2880 XII | matter. The moon, in fact, regulates the cycle of her years and
2881 VII | Michel visited the escape regulators, tried the taps, and regulated
2882 XIX | according to the experiments of Reichenbach, must necessarily itself
2883 I | will no longer be there to reimburse your dollars.”~“My stake
2884 XIII | Halt!” said Barbicane, reining up. “Has this place any
2885 XXIII | the support of life, and reject the nitrogen. The air expired
2886 XXIII | knew what systems should be rejected, what retained with regard
2887 XVIII | Barbicane, who was relating and rejecting these different opinions.~“
2888 XXII | during an eclipse. Charles VI relapsed six times into madness during
2889 XXII | the bay.~It is needless to relate the conversations on board
2890 V | answered Barbicane. “The first relates to the air shut up in the
2891 II | insufficient to establish serious relations with the Queen of the Night.
2892 XIV | stone. But their ardor never relaxed, night or day. By day they
2893 I | grief; and the Gun Club was relegated to profound inactivity.~
2894 V | Melville Island and Fort Reliance, that is 76@ Fahrenheit
2895 XIV | the excavators. The gangs relieved each other every three hours.~
2896 IV | conditions of the problem. The remainder is only a question of arithmetic,
2897 V | of their own, must differ remarkably from the inhabitants of
2898 III | Captain Nicholl hastened to remedy this state of things, by
2899 XVIII | nothing but the imperishable remembrance.~
2900 VI | solar heat; only, on being reminded that comets have an atmosphere,
2901 I | were repiled, all bloody reminiscences were effaced; the cotton-plants
2902 VII | followed us into space like a remorse.”~“That would have been
2903 XXVI | descent, and the subsequent removal of the cranes and scaffolding
2904 IX | large-grained powder, which removes those difficulties. In his
2905 Not | to >Fahrenheit. I suggest removing the page numbers, undoing
2906 XXIV | designed for the purpose of rendering visible on the surface of
2907 XIX | despised. But that which renders our own globe so uncomfortable
2908 Not | on producing an accurate rendition of the text. However, if
2909 VI | But in time the majority renounced these vulgar errors, and
2910 Not | all the >hyphenation, and repackaging the lines at a length of (
2911 XIX | after twenty-four hours repasses the same lunar meridian.~
2912 I | the arsenal, the shot were repiled, all bloody reminiscences
2913 XIX | existed in the world; and, replying to your question by another,
2914 VII | Captain,” said Michel, “do not repreat that insolence, or I will
2915 X | sanction by their presence so reprehensible a spectacle, and also to
2916 XIX | the dead point. The hours representing the time traveled over were
2917 XV | rich enough in colors to reproduce so magnificent a spectacle?~
2918 IX | two forces, attraction and repulsion, affecting its motion.~“
2919 XXII | came to call upon him, and requested permission to return with
2920 I | extremely interesting nature. He requests,~therefore, that they will
2921 VI | immediately came to the rescue. They pointed out to them
2922 XXII | day passed in fruitless research; the bed of the sea was
2923 II | impetus to experimental researches.~He was personage of the
2924 III | further transformation. Did it resemble the earth at the period
2925 XXIII | contained in a special reservoir under a pressure of several
2926 XVIII | which made straight for the residence of President Barbicane.
2927 XIX | with a motion of sublime resignation, saying at the same time:~“
2928 IX | flinching, one must be a resolute savant like Barbicane, a
2929 VIII | HISTORY OF THE CANNON~The resolutions passed at the last meeting
2930 XX | recoil of the projectile, and resolving the difficult problem proposed
2931 XI | names, which science has respected up to the present time.
2932 XVI | and five thousand dollars, respectively; and if he gained two out
2933 XVIII | then aerial departure of respirable air, and disappearance of
2934 VII | air which had set their respiratory apparatus on fire, fell
2935 XIX | conditions of life; that fish respire in a medium fatal to other
2936 VIII | learned his share of the responsibility of this incident, he was
2937 VIII | three friends set about restoring the order of the projectile.
2938 XXV | that the travelers should restrict themselves to a sporting-dog
2939 X | of immortality upon which rests the whole art of war.~Now
2940 XIV | of the disc, a long night resulting from the equality of the
2941 XXI | reply to make, he and Maston resuming their walk in silence. From
2942 XVII | the bottom of the abyss, retaining the motion, but wanting
2943 IV | those which express the retardation of the moon just mentioned:
2944 XIV | density, these objects will be retarded. Again, the darkness prevents
2945 XX | What is to prevent my retarding the shock by means of rockets
2946 XVIII | visitors it was time to retire, he re-entered the passenger’
2947 II | the circumvallations of a retrenchment, formed a succession of
2948 XVI | shouts with those of the ten revelers hidden from view at the
2949 XXI | bloodthirsty man, happy in his revenge.~On seeing him, they remained
2950 XV | central point, rose 1,200 reverberating ovens, each six feet in
2951 XV | of an earthquake, these reverberations rivaling those of hurricanes
2952 XV | forgot himself in a deep reverie in which the mysterious
2953 I | laws of projectiles. They reverted invariably to gigantic shells
2954 I | Tom Hunter, his thoughts reverting involuntarily to a former
2955 XIX | president. “The question then reverts to this: Are these worlds
2956 XIV | thick, and with a stone revetment of nineteen and a half feet
2957 VI | whereupon twenty scientific reviews immediately came to the
2958 V | not believe it. Nicholl revised his figures: they were exact.
2959 VI | the heavens. The papers revived all the old anecdotes in
2960 VIII | The oxygen has made them revolt.”~“But what do you want
2961 VI | disturbances, such as cataclysms, revolutions, earthquakes, the deluge,
2962 V | indefinite molecules, began to revolve around its own axis during
2963 II | the projectile. This body revolved upon its axis, and exhibited
2964 II | report equal to that of a revolver. During violent debates
2965 V | composed of moving molecules, revolving round its axis in order
2966 XIX | summer; it is the planet of rheumatism, coughs, bronchitis; while
2967 V | but the calculations of Riccioli brought them up again to
2968 XIII | pineapples and yams, tobacco, rice, cotton-plants, and sugar-canes,
2969 XXI | shortest route over creeks and ricefields, they could not reach Skersnaw
2970 XIII | of sight, flinging their riches broadcast with careless
2971 XVI | before the guests, and the richest wines of France flowed in
2972 X | published, therefore, in the Richmond Inquirer a series of wagers,
2973 V | She appeared completely riddled with craters, and her essentially
2974 XVII | small extinguished craters, riddling the soil like a colander,
2975 XIII | fifty, together with their riders. Barbicane descended with
2976 II | the outer plates of the right-hand scuttle gave way under the
2977 XVIII | which he was never tired of ringing the changes; “and we are
2978 XVI | There was very nearly a riot round Stones Hill; but Barbicane
2979 XX | CHAPTER XX~ ATTACK AND RIPOSTE~As soon as the excitement
2980 XII | according to Tycho Brahe. It rises isolated like a gigantic
2981 X | therefore, which the captain risked in his invincible obstinacy.
2982 XI | Edinburgh in the Hidalgo, Santa Rita, Elpanda, Brownsville in
2983 XV | earthquake, these reverberations rivaling those of hurricanes and
2984 III | climbed up by cramp-irons riveted to the walls, but kept the
2985 XII | godsend.~Fifty-two thousand rix-dollars were the remittance of Sweden
2986 XXII | the bank of Hillisborough Roads, in order that the shell
2987 VI | English.~“And it does not roast us!” exclaimed Michel.~“
2988 III | Maston will think we are roasted!”~“What astonishes me,”
2989 VIII | practiced by Caston and Robert Houdin. Indeed the dog did
2990 XVIII | shirtcollar, disclosing a robust neck; his cuffs were invariably
2991 III | Christians as friend to St. Roch; thou who art rushing into
2992 III | globe. On sea, the vessels rocked by the waves are still in
2993 II | himself upon it as upon a rocking-chair, a very agreeable fact in
2994 VII | the base of most of the rocks, is three times lighter
2995 V | CHAPTER V~THE ROMANCE OF THE MOON~An observer
2996 XIX | shipping in port, an immense roofing of canvas was stretched
2997 III | lower glass, at another roosting in the heights of the projectile,
2998 XXI | the ocean. The end of the rope was carefully lashed to
2999 XXII | into the water and attached ropes to the handles of the shell,
3000 XI | their poles, while Franklin, Ross, Kane, Dumont, d’Urville,
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