As sinful men,it is a lesson to us all,because it is a story of the sin,hard heartedness,suddenly awakened fears, the swift punishment,repentance,prayers,and finally the deliverance and joy of Jonah.As with all sinners among men, the sin of this son...
CHAPTER 9.The Sermon. Father Mapple rose,and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense. Starboard gangway,there!side away to larboard larboard gangway to starboard!Midships!midships! There was a low rumbling of...
For I was not prepared to see Father Mapple after gaining the height,slowly turn round,and stooping over the pulpit,deliberately drag up the ladder step by step, till the whole was deposited within,leaving him impregnable in his little Quebec. I pond...
CHAPTER 8.The Pulpit. I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable robustness entered;immediately as the storm pelted door flew back upon admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing of him by all the congregation,sufficiently attested...
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF The late CAPTAIN EZEKIEL HARDY,Who in the bows of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan,AUGUST 3d,1833.THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS WIDOW. Shaking off the sleet from my ice glazed hat and ja...
In New Bedford,fathers,they say,give whales for dowers to their daughters,and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a piece. You must go to New Bedford to see a brilliant wedding;for,they say,they have reservoirs of oil in every house,and eve...
But New Bedford beats all Water Street and Wapping.In these last mentioned haunts you see only sailors; but in New Bedford,actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners;savages outright;many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh.It makes...
These reflections just here are occasioned by the circumstance that after we were all seated at the table,and I was preparing to hear some good stories about whaling; to my no small surprise,nearly every man maintained a profound silence.And not only...
Thinks I,Queequeg,under the circumstances,this is a very civilized overture;but,the truth is, these savages have an innate sense of delicacy,say what you will;it is marvellous how essentially polite they are. I pay this particular compliment to Queeq...
Instantly I felt a shock running through all my frame;nothing was to be seen,and nothing was to be heard; but a supernatural hand seemed placed in mine.My arm hung over the counterpane,and the nameless,unimaginable, silent form or phantom,to which th...
