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That was the beginning of the English naval greatness and of the English Colonial Empire. Think of poor Oceana 75,000 copies of it sold. It stands for something that the English nation is interested in.... But I must not try your eyes any further."
This of which I speak has been nowhere better seen than by comparing of Oceana and France, whereof Oceana, though far less in territory and population, has been nevertheless an overmatch, in regard the middle people of Oceana make good solders, which the peasants in France do not."
"Let me read it to you, my dear, you are incapable of doing so," said Berenice, gently taking the paper from her hand and reading aloud the following paragraph: "News of the 'Oceana. The Oriental and Peninsular Steam Packet Company's ship 'Albatross' has arrived at Liverpool, bringing all the passengers and crew of the 'Oceana, wrecked on the banks of Newfoundland.
More's Utopia and Harrington's Oceana, with many a tale written in the same spirit, had taught him to believe that a perfect form of government, or rather of policy, under which all men might be happy and satisfied, was practicable upon earth, and was to be achieved, not merely by the slow amelioration of mankind under God's fostering ordinances, but by the continued efforts of good and wise men who, by their goodness and wisdom, should be able to make the multitude believe in them.
Passing by the "Telemachus" of Fenelon, we come to the political romance of Harrington, written in the time of Cromwell. "Oceana" is the name by which the author represents England; and the republican plan of government which he describes with much minuteness is such as he would have recommended for adoption in case a free commonwealth had been established.
"With great respect, sir, I remain, "Berenice, Countess of Hurstmonceux." "You will go by the first steamer, sir," said Ishmael. "Certainly. This is Saturday morning; one sails at noon from New York to-day; but I could not catch that." "Of course not; but the 'Oceana' sails from Boston on Wednesday." "Yes; I shall go by her.
Claudia read aloud the paragraph that had alarmed her: "The 'Oceana' is now several days overdue. Serious apprehensions are entertained for her safety." "Do not be alarmed, my dear. At this season of the year the steamers are frequently delayed beyond their usual time of arrival," said the countess, with a cheerfulness that she was very far from really feeling.
Bludyer himself does not fly into a passion over a squat volume published two centuries ago, even when, as in the case of the first edition of Harrington's Oceana, there is such a monstrous list of errata that the writer has to tell us, by way of excuse, that a spaniel has been "questing" among his papers. These scarce and neglected books are full of interesting things.
What is more to the purpose, have you secured those three state cabins on the C deck of the Oceana?" "Well," I answered laconically, "I've paid the money for them at any rate. Sixty-six pounds the three, over and above first-class fare!" "And very cheap, too," replied Ethel; "the comfort of sleeping in a real brass bedstead instead of those intolerable bunks is worth three times as much!"
Yell ha' wark eneugh wi' yer ain before ye're dune." And he folded round his knees his Joseph's coat, as he called it, an old dressing-gown with one plaid sleeve, and one blue one, red shawl-skirts, and a black broadcloth back, not to mention, innumerable patches of every imaginable stuff and colour, filled his pipe, and buried his nose in "Harrington's Oceana."
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