32/ …fancied broiling fowls;—though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.
42/ And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being #paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable #infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being #paid,—what will compare with it?
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44/ Finally, I always go to sea as a sailor, because of the wholesome exercise and pure air of the fore-castle deck.
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45/ For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the
#Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the#Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle.Prikaži ovu nit -
46/ He thinks he breathes it first; but not so. In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it. But wherefore it was that after having repeatedly smelt the sea as a merchant sailor, I should…
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47/ …now take it into my head to go on a whaling voyage; this the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me in some unaccountable way—he can better answer than any one else.
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48/ And, doubtless, my going on this
#whaling voyage, formed part of the grand programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago. It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances.Prikaži ovu nit -
49/ I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this: “Grand Contested
#Election for the#Presidency of the United States. “WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL. “BLOODY BATTLE IN#AFGHANISTAN.” Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage…Prikaži ovu nit -
51/ …I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the
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53/ Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the
#whale; these, with all the attending marvels of a thousand#Patagonian sights and sounds, helped to sway me to my wish.Prikaži ovu nit -
54/ With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on
#barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a#horror, and…Prikaži ovu nit -
55/ …could still be social with it—would they let me—since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one lodges in. By
#reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in…Prikaži ovu nit -
56/ …the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the
#whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.Prikaži ovu nit
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