Moby Dick and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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“But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture. Thou shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that democratic dignity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God Himself! The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!” (Page 52)
“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper” (Page 20)
“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.’” (Page 12)
“Somebody tried to get in, so I was laying for him.’” (Page 281)
“‘began to reason of Providence and futurity, and of everything that lies beyond human ken, and informed me that he ‘had pretty much made up his mind to be annihilated’; but still he does not seem to rest in that anticipation; and, I think, will never rest until he gets hold of a definite belief. It is strange how he persists … in wandering to-and-fro over these deserts, as dismal and monotonous as the sandhills amid which we were sitting. He can neither believe, nor be comfortable in his unbelief.’” (Page x)
- Title: Moby Dick and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Authors: Herman Melville, Mark Twain
- Edition: Second Edition
- Series: Great Books of the Western World
- Volume: 48
- Publishers: Encyclopedia Britannica, Robert P. Gwinn
- Print Publication Date: 1990
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Whaling ships › Fiction; Mississippi River › Fiction; Runaway children › Fiction
- ISBNs: 0852295316, 9780852295311
- Resource ID: LLS:GBWW48
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:11:43Z