Fifteenthly, that the writer in all which went before had adhered, and
was at present adhering to the philosophy of Dr. Dove, was shown in
relation to a beautiful stanza that had been quoted from a poem by Mr.
Charles Lloyd; which becoming applicable as a motto because it seemed
to be inapplicable, was applied, after some curious facts concerning
the Greenland fishery had been stated, on the authority of Captain
Scoresby, who was introduced in consequence of a wish concerning
Whales having been expressed; which was associated, it has not yet
appeared how, with the feeling in which the Reader was called upon to
consider the good and the evil connected with those one million, eight
hundred and twenty thousand goose quills, the entry of which was
entered in that place, because the Reader had hit the _But_, when he
answered the question which the writer propounded, after it had been
observed that Grammarians have maintained many and mysterious opinions
concerning the nature of the word _But_, with which Goosey-Loosey
ended her speech abruptly and significantly, after Chick-Pick, and
Hen-Pen, and Cock-Lock, and Duck-Luck, and Turkey-Lurkey, and
Goosey-Loosey, being consulted, confirmed the opinion of the
Biographer and Disciple of Dr. Dove, that Aristotle was not altogether
right, when he held that domesticated animals were benefitted by their
connection with man.
Sixteenthly, an assertion of Captain Scoresby's that Whales were
created for man was brought forward when it had been shown that the
writer in all which went before had adhered, and was at present
adhering to the philosophy of Dr. Dove, in relation to a beautiful
stanza that had been quoted from a poem by Mr. Charles Lloyd, which
becoming applicable as a motto because it seemed to be inapplicable,
was applied, after some curious facts concerning the Greenland fishery
had been stated on the authority of Captain Scoresby, who was
introduced in consequence of a wish concerning Whales having been
expressed, which was associated, it has not yet appeared how, with the
feeling in which the reader was called upon to consider the good and
the evil connected with those one million, eight hundred, and twenty
thousand goose quills, the entry of which was entered in that place
because the Reader had hit the _But_, when he answered the question
which the writer propounded, after it had been observed that
Grammarians have maintained many and mysterious opinions concerning
the nature of the word _But_, with which Goosey-Loosey ended her
speech, abruptly and significantly, after Chick-Pick, and Hen-Pen, and
Cock-Lock, and Duck-Luck, and Turkey-Lurkey, and Goosey-Loosey, being
consulted, confirmed the opinion of the Biographer and Disciple of Dr.
Dove, that Aristotle was not altogether right, when he held that
domesticated animals were benefitted by their connection with man.
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