This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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21754 | But what has all this to do with icebergs? |
21754 | Whence came these? |
21754 | But to this we add the question,--What is salt water? |
21754 | But where should these vessels go? |
21754 | How, then, came the Greenland whales to pass from the Greenland seas to the Pacific? |
21754 | How, then, comes this warm current to be underneath the cold, as soundings have proved it to be? |
21754 | Now arises the question-- what becomes of the great quantity of salt that is thus being carried perpetually into the polar basin? |
21754 | We may not put the question,"How did God create all things out of nothing?" |
21754 | We thus account for an easterly tendency to the winds, but whence their westerly flow? |
21754 | What is the sea made of? |
21754 | Where should they look? |
21754 | Who can tell how many more shall follow? |
21754 | has been the question of the inquisitive of all ages,"and how came they there?" |
21754 | or, as there are many kinds of salt water, of what sort of salt water does the sea consist? |
42845 | And why not be thus_ permeated_? |
42845 | But what do I see now? 42845 But what need of other animals? |
42845 | Madame, why is it that you prefer this tree of a dubious red, to all the precious stones? |
42845 | That being which we call the Sea,--is it a parasite of the vast animal which we call the Earth? 42845 What are those wild waves saying?" |
42845 | A grave point is the choice of a house; and who shall direct you as to that? |
42845 | An art not merely to survive the Tempest but even to make it useful? |
42845 | And from that Italy how often have we had great and beautiful tidings? |
42845 | And how many are sent from America, from France, from Holland-- from everywhere? |
42845 | And in what proportion? |
42845 | And the learned M. Forbes who has so deeply studied them, very aptly asks, what is there astonishing in that? |
42845 | And the stranger says to them,"Shall you not have bad weather, think you?" |
42845 | And what are our present tidings from Florence? |
42845 | And what can one get to eat? |
42845 | And what has been the consequence? |
42845 | And what have they brought back? |
42845 | And who shall teach us to quicken and obey that sense? |
42845 | And why so? |
42845 | And why? |
42845 | And will she not speedily fulfil her threat? |
42845 | And, for the matter of that, why need we depend upon the State to do this great thing? |
42845 | And, in fact, is it not from her that life primitively sprang? |
42845 | And, in fact, why should not water be the safety of man? |
42845 | And, in truth, he was a bold man who conceived the notion of erecting a beacon here, amidst the waters; what say I? |
42845 | And, the inference? |
42845 | And, then, in fact, what does it matter about the length of the task? |
42845 | And,"what are those wild waves saying?" |
42845 | Are her tides ruled only by the sun and moon? |
42845 | Are its lowest depths peopled? |
42845 | Are there any marshes in the neighborhood? |
42845 | Are these mere forms of style, simple comparisons? |
42845 | Are they gelatinous or fleecy? |
42845 | Are we then to suppose that death preceded life? |
42845 | Are ye not surfeited with wrecked ships and slain men? |
42845 | But are they, in feet, entirely Dreams? |
42845 | But at what cost are we doing all this? |
42845 | But do there now exist any remains, any whole, or even partial, skeletons of these creatures? |
42845 | But do you therefore suppose that they are utterly inert? |
42845 | But how does the globe act? |
42845 | But how is it possible that such a mistake could be made? |
42845 | But how is organization to pass from creatures of the sea to creatures of both sea and land? |
42845 | But how long? |
42845 | But how? |
42845 | But is this saying enough? |
42845 | But it will be asked--"If these creatures really existed, how is it that we do not see them now?" |
42845 | But still, who had overcome the great obstacle of religious repugnance? |
42845 | But under what law do they produce this effect? |
42845 | But what could man do against the enormous fecundity of the cod? |
42845 | But what does it now proceed to exhibit? |
42845 | But what has he done with the first, with his mother, and his nurse? |
42845 | But what is their relative proportion? |
42845 | But what is to be done? |
42845 | But who knows if the captive and slumbering life which you, for instance, despise in the oyster or the snail, or the slug, be not in truth a progress? |
42845 | But who knows? |
42845 | But who shall be their interpreter; who shall give us the keynote to their harmony, mysterious harmony-- but Harmony doubtless? |
42845 | But why was it so difficult to discover the already discovered America? |
42845 | But you ask, what does she want with you? |
42845 | Can we prudently take to the sea- bath until the sea breeze shall have trained our physical frame? |
42845 | Can we, safely, without preparation, without alteration of diet and of habits, be suddenly removed from an inland to a maritime abode? |
42845 | Come nightfall, he asks himself whether he will be quite safe in a wide open lodging? |
42845 | Could I have written that book in any other place? |
42845 | Do they know what they thus swallow? |
42845 | Do they reply to her? |
42845 | Do we give our children any of these? |
42845 | Do we love them? |
42845 | Do we not from all sides hear of your horrid triumphs? |
42845 | Do you ask why her instinct so quickly reveals creation to her; why she enters as one so thoroughly at home, into the great mystery of Nature? |
42845 | Do you fancy, then, that this Russian or that Backwoodsman, can replace, at need, a mechanic of London or an optician of Paris? |
42845 | Does it thunder? |
42845 | Does not our earth feel the attraction of yet other globes? |
42845 | Does some gentle patient ask us on what people live, in those marine solitudes? |
42845 | Dogs and wolves, do I say? |
42845 | Elephants? |
42845 | For creatures so elementary, would nature go to the expense of a complicated generation? |
42845 | For what was to be done with so many of those huge creatures, each of which had so much blood and so much oil? |
42845 | For, in very truth, what are man''s best works, but the realization of the Almighty will and the great directing mercy? |
42845 | Great and terrible servitudes those; how were they to be remedied? |
42845 | Had he seen, in the possession of his master, the king of Portugal, a chart which had it so laid down? |
42845 | Have the Medusæ this same sense? |
42845 | Have the Missionaries, whether Catholic or Protestant, made any converts? |
42845 | Have we really seen it, this lovely scene? |
42845 | Her anchor once tripped, who can tell whither the good ship may be urged by some sudden wind, or some unsuspected but irresistible current? |
42845 | How are we to imagine that the creative power which we observe in every being on the globe can be denied to the globe itself?" |
42845 | How at the present time does it obtain accretion? |
42845 | How between this great and salutary, but somewhat rude, strength and our weakness, can there be any connection? |
42845 | How has the imprudent creature set out? |
42845 | How is that to be? |
42845 | How know we that, do you ask? |
42845 | How ready we were to exclaim:"Cordouan, Cordouan, pale phantom, can you show yourself only to conjure up the storm, and the storm fiend?" |
42845 | How would it be if the human hand could hear and smell? |
42845 | How, without sails, or oars, or helm, has she left her port? |
42845 | If Beatrice of Florence could influence her father to found such a home, such a saving refuge, can not we women of France do as much? |
42845 | If only the stature and bulk of man were given to them, who, who, and by what means, could engage with them? |
42845 | Imaginary? |
42845 | In brief, if the Tempest has its_ science_, can we not create and use an_ art_? |
42845 | In throwing up that column towards the sky the_ panting blower_ seems to say,"Oh, nature, why hast thou made me a serf?" |
42845 | Is it a caprice, as with so many beings that throw out their sparkles and flashes of a vain and inconstant joy? |
42845 | Is it an effect of Heat? |
42845 | Is it animal warmth that you lack? |
42845 | Is it in part a physical effect like that which gives their serpentine motion to the Salpas, injected with fire? |
42845 | Is it not the universal element of life? |
42845 | Is it that we are less beautiful, or are you less truly in Love?" |
42845 | Is it the fault of the sea, if this beach is treacherous? |
42845 | Is it the result of the numberless deaths which furnish forth materials for new lives? |
42845 | Is it true that Magellan, before his great enterprise, had seen the Pacific laid down upon a globe by the German, Behaim? |
42845 | Is it, as others think, and as some observations would lead us to believe, an act of aspiration? |
42845 | Is not the land large enough? |
42845 | Is that a freak of nature? |
42845 | Is the Whale, therefore, a terrestrial animal? |
42845 | Is the sea very pure, or mixed? |
42845 | Is this to affirm that these creatures might have ascended to us? |
42845 | Kill them afterwards? |
42845 | Life, at those times, seems to borrow human voice, and to ask,--"Can I possibly last?" |
42845 | Might you not, now that you are thus sheltered, fancy yourself a hundred leagues from the sea? |
42845 | Millions, tens of millions, tens of thousands of millions;--who can even guess at the number of those hosts upon hosts? |
42845 | More productive than the land? |
42845 | Must such people come to the Sea to martyrize the sick and to vulgarize the majesty of the Sea, that wild and true grandeur? |
42845 | Nature? |
42845 | No sooner has he landed in Haiti, than he enquires,"where is the gold? |
42845 | Of some benevolent thing which at certain hours returns to refresh and nourish them? |
42845 | On what? |
42845 | Or an appeal to that rapture of love which alone consoles us here below? |
42845 | Or do they spring up spontaneously, and, in vulgar phrase,"like mushrooms?" |
42845 | Or should it not rather suggest to us some melancholy dream of an impossible destiny which is never to attain its end? |
42845 | Or that we have descended from them? |
42845 | Or were the reality and the impression alike true? |
42845 | Or, is it the silent but undying memory of the persecuted Protestants? |
42845 | Our voyages, upon which we moderns, and more especially the learned, so plume ourselves, have they been really, or at all, servicable to the savages? |
42845 | Ritter and Lyell say:"The Earth labors herself; can she be impotent to organise herself? |
42845 | Shall I give you my opinion? |
42845 | Should they not be the grand moving powers which have created the currents of the sea, put the immense machine into motion? |
42845 | Should we not far rather imagine that in these masses there is a mixture of animality? |
42845 | So much nursing gentleness and so much destroying fury; have we not here a great contradiction? |
42845 | That they have no confused idea of Love and the Unknown? |
42845 | That viscuousness which water in general presents? |
42845 | The devourers and the devoured, were they two nations of different origin? |
42845 | They beg, they pray, they insist-- and who is to resist them? |
42845 | They must be enormously expensive; and who pays the cost? |
42845 | Upon land, we take care of our_ Horses_; why not PRESERVE THE SEA? |
42845 | Was all this attributable to my worn brain and wearied eyes? |
42845 | Was he a lunatic? |
42845 | Was he late in displaying his guiding light? |
42845 | Was it an entity, or a delusion? |
42845 | Was it at our antipodes? |
42845 | Was she dying or already dead? |
42845 | Was this land of gold, Paradise, or was it not? |
42845 | We have spoken of mere atomies; but are there, in reality, any such? |
42845 | Whales? |
42845 | What became of the crew? |
42845 | What can the creature there do with his strength? |
42845 | What has caused this great change, created the terrestrial Dugong, and his brother the Walrus? |
42845 | What if the rotifer could conceive, for instance, the superb, the colossal starred sponge, which one may see in the Museum at Paris? |
42845 | What is her point of departure? |
42845 | What is it that makes amends for so much of inferiority in the means of the man? |
42845 | What is it? |
42845 | What is the nature of their amours? |
42845 | What is the precise exposition? |
42845 | What is the real extent of the ocean? |
42845 | What is the use of merely seeing that desert, when, in the very act of seeing it you make it either depopulated or hostile? |
42845 | What more could be required? |
42845 | What more, I ask, do ye demand? |
42845 | What most tempts man? |
42845 | What precautions have been taken? |
42845 | What the result? |
42845 | What union can there be between elements so greatly disproportioned? |
42845 | What was the meaning of all this cruel slaughter? |
42845 | What was the original idea? |
42845 | What would become of you if we should die? |
42845 | What, then, is that other power? |
42845 | What? |
42845 | What_ is_ that? |
42845 | Whatever may be your choice, Madame, between these two kinds of house, do you know what I heartily wish for you? |
42845 | Where are these first sketches of animality made? |
42845 | Where are we to look for the primitive scene of organization? |
42845 | Where do these wonders commence? |
42845 | Where lived it? |
42845 | Which will it first produce, the vegetable- animal, or the animal- vegetable? |
42845 | Who can even imagine how many ships and how many men are saved by these beneficent beacons? |
42845 | Who can foresee or guess the history of this drop of water? |
42845 | Who can forget that for ten years Ramon, in vain, sought to reach Mount Perdu, though often within sight of it? |
42845 | Who discovered the secrets of the Globe? |
42845 | Who does not know that Roscoff raises fruit and vegetables in such profusion as to sell them cheaply, even in Normandy? |
42845 | Who first saw America? |
42845 | Who has developed the currents, those regular fluctuation of the abysses into which we never descend? |
42845 | Who has got gold?" |
42845 | Who has not noted with pity the painful efforts of the shell- less mollusc, as he grovels along on his unguarded belly? |
42845 | Who has summoned him? |
42845 | Who has taught us the geography of those dark waters? |
42845 | Who is it that tells us this? |
42845 | Who is really dead? |
42845 | Who knows whether this vital_ circulus_ of the marine animality is not the starting point of all physical_ circulus_? |
42845 | Who opened up to men the great distant navigation? |
42845 | Who revealed the Ocean, and marked out its zones and its liquid highways? |
42845 | Whose eloquence, tact, and perseverance, in fact set the expedition fairly afloat? |
42845 | Why can not I, with a single word, build you just such a villa as I have in my mind? |
42845 | Why has that name of terror been given to a creature so charming? |
42845 | Why have I been permitted to see for a moment that immense flood of light? |
42845 | Why is it that in this matter America, so young, has outstripped Europe, so old? |
42845 | Why is that? |
42845 | Why not make that bay sacred to it? |
42845 | Why not_ protect the breeding Season of the Ocean_? |
42845 | Why, then, when we feel ourselves sinking, do we not repair for restoration to the abounding source of life? |
42845 | Why? |
42845 | Why? |
42845 | Why? |
42845 | Will not some inquisitives intrude a look-- who knows-- may not some one find the way in with claw and tooth as well as glance? |
42845 | Will that warm sea be found again? |
42845 | Would not one month be enough? |
42845 | Yet among those animal mountains, where will you find the vivacity, the ardor of vitality, displayed by the rotifer? |
42845 | _ Have_ they any amours? |
42845 | _ Laughably_, said I? |
42845 | _ Nothing?_ Say, rather, everything. |
42845 | and, in fact, have we any antipodes? |
42845 | de Saint Vincent; viz: What is the_ mucus_ of the Sea? |
42845 | may we venture to call it so? |
42845 | what more do ye require? |