Chapter

  1 Pre    |      communication from a leading man of science in the island,
  2 I      |         how was it possible for a man of my undecided turn of
  3 I      |  Nevertheless my good uncle was a man of deep learning — a fact
  4 I      |           acid, he was a powerful man of science. He would refer
  5 I      |       manner. Fancy a tall, spare man, of an iron constitution,
  6 I      |        always happy.~In a word, a man might live happily enough
  7 I      |          very fond of me. But the man had no notion how to wait;
  8 II     |         in the tone of an injured man. But my uncle persevered,
  9 II     |         and wonder, impious young man, and admire these letters,
 10 III    |          was a very well-informed man; now since he was not writing
 11 III    |           uncle, you are a clever man.”~“Let us examine carefully,”
 12 III    |        great mind of so learned a man of course had no place for
 13 IV     |        really been done! A mortal man had had the audacity to
 14 V      |         to gain upon me. The poor man was so entirely taken up
 15 V      |           Ay,” he answered like a man suddenly waking.~“Uncle,
 16 V      |           calmed down, and like a man exhausted by too lavish
 17 VI     |        are a very ingenious young man, you have done me a splendid
 18 VII    |       about it. No sensible young man should for a moment entertain
 19 VII    |          it is a good thing for a man to be distinguished by some
 20 VII    |          is a bold philosopher, a man of immense courage, and
 21 VII    |       return, Axel, you will be a man, his equal, free to speak
 22 VIII   |        till they ached. That good man was rather surprised at
 23 IX     |        soil of Iceland.~The first man we saw was a good-looking
 24 IX     |       Rejkiavik, was a delightful man, and his friendship became
 25 X      |         and science?”~“That’s the man.”~“An illustrious man anywhere!”~“
 26 X      |         the man.”~“An illustrious man anywhere!”~“Quite so.”~“
 27 X      |        company of such a talented man would have been very serviceable,
 28 X      |        you.”~“A safe, intelligent man.”~“Yes; an inhabitant of
 29 XI     |       Danish language with a tall man, of robust build. This fine
 30 XI     |          arms in speaking, like a man who knew nothing or cared
 31 XI     |         dreamt in looking at this man that he was a hunter; he
 32 XI     |        learned and most ingenious man of science; his great discovery
 33 XI     |      Hyaltalin, the first medical man of the place, being of the
 34 XII    |          smiling to see so tall a man on so small a pony, and
 35 XII    |          so little action in this man that he will never get tired;
 36 XIV    |          from the others, I saw a man shoeing a horse, hammer
 37 XIV    |       seems, Axel, that this good man is the rector.”~Our guide
 38 XIV    |         discovered what sort of a man he had to do with; instead
 39 XIV    |     instead of a good and learned man he found a rude and coarse
 40 XIV    |       myself. Hans, as a cautious man, had added to our luggage
 41 XIV    |          paid without a remark: a man who is starting for the
 42 XVI    |           cord, in order that any man who missed his footing might
 43 XVI    |         of Pluto. He stood like a man stupefied, but the stupefaction
 44 XVI    |       enough to irritate a meeker man than he; for it was foundering
 45 XVII   |            Now I ask any sensible man if it was possible to hear
 46 XVIII  |   hitherto reached by the foot of man, such as the mines of Kitz
 47 XIX    |        slowly and uneasily like a man that declines to be convinced.
 48 XX     |           of animal life in which man fills the highest place.
 49 XX     |      never pierced by the hand of man. But whether it be the hand
 50 XX     |        then knew that the hand of man had not hollowed out this
 51 XXI    |         the angry impatience of a man obliged to own his weakness;
 52 XXI    |          despair!”~What sort of a man was this I had to do with,
 53 XXII   |           ashamed of suspecting a man of such extraordinary faithfulness.
 54 XXII   |           have induced so quiet a man to forfeit his sleep. Was
 55 XXIII  |        granite partition, and our man had worked for above an
 56 XXIV   |         not so firmly convinced a man as my uncle, furnished with
 57 XXIV   |          been made by the hand of man.~Every quarter of an hour
 58 XXV    |          is a precedent. What one man has done, another may do.”~“
 59 XXV    |            No doubt it is. A deaf man would soon learn to hear
 60 XXVI   |         effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls
 61 XXVI   |         tones of a half-convinced man. Besides, to associate even
 62 XXVII  |        without indecision, like a man who has made up his mind.~
 63 XXXI   |        materials; and never could man have given it so wide a
 64 XXXII  |          before the appearance of man, when the unfinished world
 65 XXXIII |        with the air of an injured man.~I remark that Professor
 66 XXXIII |      earth a thousand ages before man appeared, but their fossil
 67 XXXIII |           coal, and as large as a man’s head. Nature has endowed
 68 XXXIV  |      remained at his post, like a man too wise ever to be astonished.~
 69 XXXV   |        comparison with preadamite man, the contemporary of the
 70 XXXVI  |          a lively gratitude. This man, with almost superhuman
 71 XXXVII |        rage. Never had I seen the man so put out of countenance
 72 XXXVII |      shall know what a determined man can do. I will not yield.
 73 XXXVII |           it will be seen whether man or nature is to have the
 74 XXXVIII|        The existence therefore of man in the quaternary period
 75 XXXVIII|          evidently by the hand of man.~Thus, at one bound, the
 76 XXXVIII|        record of the existence of man receded far back into the
 77 XXXVIII|          to face with a primitive man!~It was a perfectly recognisable
 78 XXXVIII|      honour to introduce to you a man of the quaternary or post-tertiary
 79 XXXVIII|          Scheuchzer’s pre-adamite man against Peter Campet. I
 80 XXXVIII|      animation, “this is a fossil man, the contemporary of the
 81 XXXVIII|      assertions; but there is the man surrounded by his own works,
 82 XXXVIII|     fishes. Might not some living man, some native of the abyss,
 83 XXXIX  |        like Hoffmann’s shadowless man.~After walking a mile we
 84 XXXIX  |     similar to ourselves: it is a man!”~I looked, shaking my head
 85 XXXIX  |          palæontology. But that a man, a living man, and therefore
 86 XXXIX  |          But that a man, a living man, and therefore whole generations
 87 XXXIX  |          I cried, “to some living man, contemporary with the huge
 88 XXXIX  |          here before us!~“Yes — a man has.”~“And who was that
 89 XXXIX  |           has.”~“And who was that man?”~“A man who has engraved
 90 XXXIX  |         And who was that man?”~“A man who has engraved his name
 91 XXXIX  |  somewhere with that dagger. That man wanted once more to mark
 92 XL     |     Professor stopped me; he, the man of impulse, counselled patience
 93 XLII   |         Resolute words these! The man who could speak so, under
 94 XLII   |       them with the calmness of a man above all anxiety about
 95 XLII   |          now five in the morning.~Man is so constituted that health
 96 XLII   |  satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of
 97 XLII   |           Hans thinking of — that man of the far West, but who
 98 XLII   |      approximation; but a learned man is always a philosopher
 99 XLIII  |           stark mad? What did the man mean? and what was the use
100 XLV    |           my uncle became a great man, and I was now the nephew
101 XLV    |         now the nephew of a great man —which is not a privilege
102 XLV    | entreaties, had left Hamburg; the man to whom we owed all our
103 XLV    |      remained a mystery. Now to a man eminent for his learning,