...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... ...nough. It touches one’s sense of honor, particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, the Van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or Hardi... ...ng ground) the command of the ship’s deck is also his; therefore the grand political maxim of the sea demands, that he should nominally live apart fro... ...e 148 Chapter 33 The Specksynder lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to i... ...ye stand. Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league. Ha! Starbuck! 166 Chapter 36 The Quar... ...the plagues of Egypt. But fortunately the special point I here seek can be established upon testimony entirely independent of my own. That point is th... ...ce of country make any very essential difference; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English. Thou... ...med for genuine upon any intelligent public of schoolboys. Then, again, in 1825, Bernard Germain, Count de Lacepede, a great naturalist, published a s...

...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...d under Cromwell, but afterwards conformed, and managed to come out of all political troubles as the proprietor of a respectable family estate. Young ... ... a new scheme for the application of her income which would interfere with political economy and the keeping of saddle horses: a man would naturally t... ...ou will lose yourself, I forewarn you. You will make a Saturday pie of all parties’ opinions, and be pelted by everybody.” “That is what I expect, you... ...as time to dress. There was to be a dinner party that day, the last of the parties which were held at the Grange as proper preliminaries to the weddin... ...rode, excited by his apparent determination to patronize Lydgate. The long established practitioners, Mr. Wrench and Mr. Toller; were just now standin... ...awn up by myself and executed by our deceased friend on the 9th of August, 1825. But I find that there is a subsequent instrument hitherto unknown to m... ...rence for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order. And Lydgate’s tendency was not towards extreme opinions:...

... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

... . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the rai... ...he railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the ... ...given accounts of their ex peditions. Since I was there, two or three other parties have made the excursion, and told their stories. Besides these, v... ...f the wild lands of Maine. We are concerned now, however, about natural, not political limits. We were about eighty miles, as the bird flies, from Bang... ...fornia unexplored behind us. Though the railroad and the telegraph have been established on the shores of Maine, the Indian still looks out from her i... ...ed, while we asked questions about him. The former said, that there were two political parties among them, — one in favor of schools, and the other op... ...we asked questions about him. The former said, that there were two political parties among them, — one in favor of schools, and the other opposed to t... ...most fresh and inspiring. There is no serenity so fair as that which is just established in a tearful eye. Jackson, in his Report on the Geology of Ma... ...have been three or four miles long as we paddled. He had not been here since 1825. He did not know what Telos meant; thought it was not Indian. He use...

...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobsco...