The author of the
article was a young man, an invalid, very bold as a writer, but extremely deficient in breeding and shy in personal relations.
Therefore I have read with profound regret, in that
article upon the yachting season of a certain year, that the seamanship on board racing yachts is not now what it used to be only a few, very few, years ago.
"They have not exactly PURCHASED, but I believe each of them has a particular
article in her eye.
Then perhaps we understood most fully how good a friend our editor had been, for just as I had been able to find no well-known magazine - and I think I tried all - which would print any
article or story about the poor of my native land, so now the publishers, Scotch and English, refused to accept the book as a gift.
He mailed the bulky manuscript to THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, and on Saturday afternoon, after having planned an
article on pearl- diving, he went to see Ruth.
A fact I learned from the
article and not because I remembered my geography."
But five days after the
article in the bulletin of the Geographical Society appeared, the demand began to subside: "Phileas Fogg" declined.
As may be supposed, the foregoing
article had an enormous echo among scientific people.
"Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand BLUSTRUGS (about twelve miles in circumference) to the extremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: his most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following
articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to perform:--
The
article made something of a stir, and extracts from it were printed in many of the papers.
It seemed to him that something extraordinary, some sudden catastrophe had occurred, and that he was almost the cause of it, because he had read the
article aloud.
Could that which procures a freer vent for the products of the earth, which furnishes new incitements to the cultivation of land, which is the most powerful instrument in increasing the quantity of money in a state -- could that, in fine, which is the faithful handmaid of labor and industry, in every shape, fail to augment that
article, which is the prolific parent of far the greatest part of the objects upon which they are exerted?
The recommendatory act of Congress is in the words following: "WHEREAS, There is provision in the
articles of Confederation and perpetual Union, for making alterations therein, by the assent of a Congress of the United States, and of the legislatures of the several States; and whereas experience hath evinced, that there are defects in the present Confederation; as a mean to remedy which, several of the States, and PARTICULARLY THE STATE OF NEW YORK, by express instructions to their delegates in Congress, have suggested a convention for the purposes expressed in the following resolution; and such convention appearing to be the most probable mean of establishing in these States A FIRM NATIONAL GOVERNMENT:
On the day following Queequeg's signing the
articles, word was given at all the inns where the ship's company were stopping, that their chests must be on board before night, for there was no telling how soon the vessel might be sailing.
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on
Articles exported from any State.
