...d strainings, I inferred he was hard at work booting himself; though by no law of propriety that I ever heard of, is any man required to be private wh... ... and Judges. Delight, — top gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven. Delight... ...th her last gifts — a night cap for Stubb, the second mate, her brother in law, and a spare Bible for the steward — after all this, the two captains, ... ...le. Whaling not respectable? Whaling is imperial! By old English statutory law, the whale is declared “a royal fish.” Oh, that’s only nominal! The whal... ...ully abstemious, not to say dainty. It seemed hardly possible that by such comparatively small mouthfuls he could keep up the vitality diffused throug... ...e fishermen. But not all of them knew of his existence; only a few of them, comparatively, had knowingly seen him; while the number who as yet had actu... ...solitudes. Much the same is it with the backwoodsman of the West, who with comparative indif ference views an unbounded prairie sheeted with driven s... ...h his friends at home would think little of his entering a boat in certain comparatively harmless vicissitudes of the chase, for the sake of being nea... ...ury, during the Revival of Learning; and in those days, and even down to a comparatively late period, dolphins were popularly supposed to be a species...

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