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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...itself,” said Mr. Webster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons,... ...thousand persons, living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” Report of Da... ...res to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. What is the chief element... ...ill reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as on... ...Finding myself thus hard pushed, I replied, “I mean, sir, the same ancient Catholic Church to which you and I, and Captain Peleg there, and Queequeg h... ...pers, lamps,and candles that burn round the globe, burn, as before so many shrines, to our glory! But look at this matter in other lights; weigh it in... ...nable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy. For by a Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s going to Nineveh via the Cape of...

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