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xiii "The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inward bruise."

"Very like a whale."

"Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful calm trouble the ocean till it boil."

"What spermacetti is, men might justly doubt, since the learned Hosmannus in his work of thirty years, saith plainly, Nescio quid sit."

"By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or State—(in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man."

"Silly Mansoul swallowed it without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale."