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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 NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 56 Of... ...ocracy in those parts. That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia, was given to the enlightened world by the whaleman. After its fir... ...rue mother of that now mighty colony. Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from starvati... ... certain that those seas are not, and perhaps never can be, in the present constitution of things, a place for his habitual gregarious resort. But fur... ...dain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent. The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidne... ...ny others, form a vast mole, or rampart, lengthwise con necting Asia with Australia, and dividing the long unbroken Indian ocean from the thickly stu... ...this was very far North, be it remembered, where beer agrees well with the constitution; upon the Equator, in our southern fishery, beer would be apt t...

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