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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... ... The Grand Armada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366 88 Schools and Schoolmasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 89 ... ...NTENTS XXXXX Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.) The pale Usher — threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see... ...ildly reminded him of his mortality. Etymology “While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale fish is to be called ... ...ly ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. 1 See subsequent chapters for something more o... .... The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earl... ...dent underwriter would insure them any more than he would a riotous lad at Yale or Harvard. They soon relinquish this turbulence though, and when abou...

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