human condition

I replied, however, that we were on a voyage of discovery towards the northern pole. Upon hearing this he appeared satisfied and consented to come on board. Margaret, if you had seen the man who thus capitulated for his safety, your surprise would have been bo...

I asked, it is true, for greater treasures than a little food or rest: I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it. “The winter advanced, and an entire revolution of the seasons had taken place since I awoke into life.

"Well," I said, "there can be no doubt now as to what we have to do. Water has utterly failed us; our journey is therefore at an end. Let us return." While I spoke thus, my uncle evidently avoided my face: he held down his head; his eyes were turned in every p...

To fly is, therefore, the course to be suggested by ordinary prudence. But we have not come into that part of the world to be prudent. The nearer we come, the loftier is the spouting water.

There is a constant emission of light from the storm clouds; the electric matter is incessantly released; evidently the gaseous principles of the air are out of order; innumerable columns of water rush up like waterspouts, and fall back upon the surface of the...