FLASK, BOTTLE, AND DEMIJOHN
[NOTE.—This chapter, in its first shape, was given some currency under the title of "The Evil Beast." I have, however, so revised and added to that Lecture, that, as here…
THE HOUSE OF BLACKNESS OF DARKNESS
Men like to hear the frailties and faults of others chastised. With what blandness and placidity they sit and hear the religious teacher excoriate the ambition of Ahab, the treachery…
THE GUN THAT KICKS OVER THE MAN WHO SHOOTS IT OFF
Blasphemy is a crime that aims at God, but does its chief harm to the one that fires it off. So I compare it to a piece of imperfect firearms…
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LIES: WHITE AND BLACK
There are ten thousand ways of telling a lie. A man's entire life may be a falsehood, while with his lips he may not once directly falsify. There are those…
A GOOD TIME COMING
As on some bitter cold night, while threshing our hands about to keep our thumbs from freezing, we have looked up and seen the northern lights blazing along the sky,…