His past life is always present to him; everything that we are forbidden he regrets. Nothing; he is not learned like you, sir; and has not the same ta...

Felix visited the grate at night and made known to the prisoner his intentions in his favour. The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle th...

Nearly the whole population of the town was on foot to see us land. The fact was, that scarcely any one of them but expected some goods by the periodi...

This conversation they are apt to run into with the same temper that boys discover in delighting to hear terrible stories of spirits and hobgoblins, w...

Her answer, therefore, was not propitious, at least not to Elizabeth’s wishes, for she was impatient to get home. Bennet sent them word that they coul...

But on the 11th of April it rose suddenly, and land appeared at the mouth of the Amazon River, a vast estuary, the embouchure of which is so considera...