reflection

He sent him to bed, and threw himself down on the sofa in the library, and began to think over some of the things that Lord Henry had said to him. He felt a wild longing for the unstained purity of his boyhood—his rose-white boyhood, as Lord Henry had once cal...

Still it was a positive fact that someone was speaking. A dread fell upon my soul that it might be my own words brought back to me by a distant echo. Perhaps without knowing it, I might have been crying aloud. I resolutely closed my lips, and once more placed ...

Amongst other things, we happened to speak of the situation of the _Nautilus_, run aground in exactly the same spot in this strait where Dumont d’Urville was nearly lost. Apropos of this: “This D’Urville was one of your great sailors,” said the Captain to me, ...

I mentioned the prudent management of our treasury; the valour and achievements of our forces, by sea and land. I computed the number of our people, by reckoning how many millions there might be of each religious sect, or political party among us. I did not om...

He went through all our vices and follies, and discovered many, which I had never mentioned to him, by only supposing what qualities a _Yahoo_ of their country, with a small proportion of reason, might be capable of exerting; and concluded, with too much proba...