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...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feeling...

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...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 dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...d 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 a... ...ill ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel poor devilish, too; and grow... ...e Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.” Jonah. “There go the ships; there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein.” Psalms... ...that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” Cruise in a Whale Boat. “Suddenly a... ... the public; so, entering, the first thing I did was to stumble over an ash box in the porch. Ha! thought I, ha, as the flying particles almost choked m... ...dumplings; good heavens! dumplings for supper! One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner. “M... ...I. The Folio Whale; II. the Octavo Whale; III. the Duodecimo Whale. As the type of the Folio I present the Sperm Whale; of the Octavo, the Gram pus; ... ...y only grin at it, and repeat gamesome stuff about “spouters” and “blubber boilers,” and such like pretty exclamations. Why it is that all Merchant se... ...l, taking her from truck to helm, considering the dimensions of the cook’s boilers, including his own live parchment boilers; fore and aft, I say, the...

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