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abstract thought
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of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- But most humble though he was, and far from furnishing an example of the high, humane abstraction; the Pequod's carpenter was no duplicate; hence, he now comes in person on this stage.Chapters 106-108 — Ahab's Leg; The Carpenter; Ahab and the Carpenter (29% in)
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- He was a stript abstract; an unfractioned integral; uncompromised as a new-born babe; living without premeditated reference to this world or the next.Chapters 106-108 — Ahab's Leg; The Carpenter; Ahab and the Carpenter (48% in)
- Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.Chapters 106-108 — Ahab's Leg; The Carpenter; Ahab and the Carpenter (27% in)
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