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The Confidence- Man

By: Herman Melville

...The Confidence- Man By Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confidenc... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Ji... ...an), it might be injudicious there to lay too much polemic stress upon the doctrine of future retribution as the vindication of present impunity. For ... ...dication of present impunity. For though, indeed, to the right-minded that doctrine was true, and of sufficient so- lace, yet with the perverse the po... ... it might but provoke the shallow, though mischievous conceit, that such a doctrine was but tantamount to the one which should affirm that Providence ... ...hrong, crying out: “Mr. T ruman, Mr. T ruman! There he goes—that’s he. Mr. Truman, Mr. Truman! Con- found that steam-pipe. Mr. Truman! for God’s sake,... ...s me so. I say again, I ought to have a guardeean.” “So you ought; and Mr. Truman is your guardian to the extent you invested with him. Sorry we misse... ...ut have you tried the Omni-Balsamic Reinvigorator, sir?” “That’s what that Truman—ugh, ugh!—said I ought to take. Yarb-medicine; you are that yarb-doc...

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