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1 " denouement. "
― Jules Verne , Works of Jules Verne : Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; A Journey to the Center of the Earth; From the Earth to the Moon; Round the Moon; Around the World in Eighty Days
2 " Moreover, we must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on. "
3 " The fewer one's comforts, the fewer one's needs; and the fewer one's needs, the greater one's happiness. "
4 " Los viajeros, encarcelados en un nuevo satélite, si bien es verdad que no habían alcanzado su objetivo, formaban al menos parte del mundo lunar; gravitaban alrededor del astro de la noche, y por primera vez podía la vista penetrar todos sus misterios. "
5 " El capitán Nemo me indicó con la mano ese prodigioso amontonamiento de madreperlas, una mina verdaderamente inagotable, pues la fuerza creadora de la naturaleza supera al instinto destructivo del hombre. "
6 " But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind! "
7 " El mar es el vehículo de una sobrenatural y prodigiosa existencia; es movimiento y amor; es el infinito viviente, "
8 " El desánimo se apoderó de todos y abrió una brecha a la incredulidad. Un nuevo sentimiento nos embargó a todos, un sentimiento que se componía de tres décimas de vergüenza y siete décimas de furor. "
9 " Striking an average of observations taken at different times— rejecting those timid estimates that gave the object a length of 200 feet, and ignoring those exaggerated views that saw it as a mile wide and three long—you could still assert that this phenomenal creature greatly exceeded the dimensions of anything then known to ichthyologists, if it existed at all. "
10 " They were then crossing a region that was the scene of massacres and burnings, and where warlike conflicts between the barbarian sultans, contending for their power amid the most atrocious carnage, never cease. "
11 " Now then, it did exist, this was an undeniable fact; and since the human mind dotes on objects of wonder, you can understand the worldwide excitement caused by this unearthly apparition. As "
12 " ¡El mar es todo! Cubre las siete décimas partes del globo terrestre. Su aliento es puro y sano. Es el inmenso desierto en el que el hombre no está nunca solo, pues siente estremecerse la vida en torno suyo. El mar es el vehículo de una sobrenatural y prodigiosa existencia; es movimiento y amor; es el infinito viviente, como ha dicho uno de sus poetas. "
13 " His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad of the High Arctic regions. "
14 " Avant la fin du jour, je vis que nous avions affaire à un forgeron, à un pêcheur, à un chasseur, à un charpentier, et pas du tout à un ministre du Seigneur. Nous étions en semaine, il est vrai. Peut-être se rattrapait-il le dimanche. "
15 " Y de creer a Toussenel este azote no es nada en comparación con el que golpeará a nuestros descendientes cuando los mares estén despoblados de focas y de ballenas. Entonces, llenos de pulpos, de medusas, de calamares, se tornarán en grandes focos de infección al haber perdido «esos vastos estómagos a los que Dios había dado la misión de limpiar los mares». "
16 " In his sight every thing was easy, logical, natural, and, consequently, he could see no use in complaining or grumbling. "
17 " after the example of his fellow-doctors, cured all the illnesses of his patients, except those of which they died--a habit unhappily acquired by all the members of all the faculties in whatever country they may practise. "
18 " FIN "
19 " no tardaron en rivalizar dignamente en el arte de la guerra con sus colegas del antiguo continente, alcanzando victorias, lo mismo que éstos, a fuerza de prodigar balas, millones y hombres. 1. "
20 " Because they are naturally ferocious, and ferocity, like maliciousness, begets suspicion; a remark which is true of man as well as of animals. A wicked man is distrustful, and fear is commonly found in those who are able to inspire it. "