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Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas + Around the World in Eighty Days + The Mysterious Island

  • Tara Nivian-Bealhas quoted6 years ago
    "You like the sea, Captain?"
    "Yes; I love it! The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the "Living Infinite," as one of your poets has said. In fact, Professor, Nature manifests herself in it by her three kingdoms—mineral, vegetable, and animal. The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? In it is supreme tranquillity. The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears. Ah! sir, live—live in the bosom of the waters! There only is independence! There I recognise no masters! There I am free!"
  • Abylai Sundetbaihas quoted2 years ago
    Certainly a Government might possess such a destructive machine.
  • b0676502107has quoted3 years ago
    ascertain the extent of the injury
  • b0676502107has quoted3 years ago
    inflamed all minds

    воспламенил все умы

  • b0676502107has quoted3 years ago
    to do neither more nor less than
  • b0676502107has quoted3 years ago
    two columns of water, projected by the mysterious object, shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up into the air.
  • b0676502107has quoted3 years ago
    presence of an unknown sandbank
  • b0676502107has quoted3 years ago
    submitted to the intermittent eruption
  • b0676502107has quoted3 years ago
    had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia
  • b0676502107has quoted3 years ago
    Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times—rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length
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