...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... 1 Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 The Carpet Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 The... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...ock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 96 The Try Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 97 The Lamp... ...outh of a whale.” Holy War. “That seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream.” Paradise Lost. —— “There ... ..., and indeed many other Nantucketers, was a Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to this day its inhabitants in general... ...ious things the veriest of all trifles — Cap tain Bildad had not only been originally educated according to the strictest sect of Nantucket Quakerism,... ... taken private measures of his own touching all that matter. Until Archy’s published discovery, the sailors had little foreseen it, though to be sure ... ...n, again, in 1825, Bernard Germain, Count de Lacepede, a great naturalist, published a scientific systemized whale book, wherein are several pictures o...

...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 o...

...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Sermon, 51 -- 10 A Bosom Friend, 59 -- 11 Nightgown, 63 -- 12 Biogra...