My revered friend walked down with me to the beach, where we embraced and parted with tenderness, and engaged to correspond by let...ters. I said, "I hope, Sir, you will not forget me in my absence." JOHNSON. "Nay, Sir, it is more likely you should forget me than that I should forget you." As the vessel put out to sea, I kept my eyes upon him for a considerable time while he remained rolling his majestic frame in his usual manner; and at last I perceived him walk back into the town, and he disappeared.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While yet alive, before their tints had faded, they glistened like the fairest flowers, the product of primitive rivers; and he co...uld hardly trust his senses, as he stood over them, that these jewels should have swam away ... for so long, so many dark ages;Mthese bright fluviatile flowers, seen of Indians only, made beautiful, the Lord only knows why, to swim there! I could understand better for this, the truth of mythology, the fables of Proteus, and all those beautiful sea-monsters,--how all history, indeed, put to a terrestrial use, is mere history; but put to a celestial, is mythology always.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You've always reminded me of a seagull, Jo. Strong and wild and fond of the wind and storms. And dreaming of flying far off to sea.... And Mother always said that I was like a little cricket. Chirping contentedly on the hearth, never able to bear the thought of leaving home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Besides, I see it is reasonable to punish a rash action, which could not be justly done by man to man, unless the same were volunt...ary. For no action of a man can be said to be without deliberation, though never so sudden, because it is supposed he had time to deliberate all the precedent time of his life, whether he should do that kind of action or not. And hence it is, that he that killeth in a sudden passion of anger, shall nevertheless be justly put to death, because all the time, wherein he was able to consider whether to kill were good or evil, shall be held for one continual deliberation, and consequently the killing shall be judged to proceed from election.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and cont...rary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed... of great means of influence and yet who employs those faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion--I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And they heaved a mighty breath, every soul on board but me, As they saw her nose again pointing handsome out to sea;... But all that I could think of, in the darkness and the cold, Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »