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All the arts are expressible in "oughts"; and if there is a more authoritative and categorical nature to moral laws than there is, for example, to the aesthetic laws that art-study reveals, it is because aesthetics deals with only one aspect of human good and ethics with its totality.
"Do you see that mainmast there?" pointing to the ship; "well, that's the figure one; now take all the hoops in the Pequod's hold, and string along in a row with that mast, for oughts, do you see; well, that wouldn't begin to be Fedallah's age. Nor all the coopers in creation couldn't show hoops enough to make oughts enough."
"Why, I towld him av he guv the boys a promise, he oughts never to go back from his word." "That is to say, you endeavoured to persuade him to go?" "By-dad, I don't know about persuading; it warn't for the likes of me to persuade him." "On your oath, sir, didn't you endeavour to induce the prisoner to go to Mrs. Mulready's?" "I towld him he ought to be as good as his word."
"Yes, yes; four three oughts twelve I remember." "That's right," admitted the other. "Present your ticket at the local branch office as soon as possible the address is printed on the back of the ticket and you'll receive a check on our bank for five thousand dollars. Your number will have to be verified on our official list, but there's hardly a chance of a mistake. I congratulate you."
"Oughts are noughts, onless they've strokes to 'em," declared Billy. "'Tis a poor lookout, for he'm the sort as buys experience in the hardest market. Then, when it's got, he'll be a pauper man, with what he knaws useless for want o' what's spent gettin' it. Theer's the thought o' Miss Phoebe, tu, Mrs. Blanchard, I should say. Caan't see her biding up to Newtake nohow, come the hard weather."
"We don't know anything about 'oughts, Milly, darling, you and I. God knows, we trust, and that helps many people who love God to be patient when they are in trouble or pain. But think if it had been poor mischievous little Tiza who had been hurt, how she would have fretted.
A child should be brought up with its parents, if it is to think them infallible when it grows up. 'But though it may know that there must be faults, replied Molly, 'it ought to cover them over and try to forget their existence. 'It ought. But don't you see I have grown up outside the pale of duty and "oughts." Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better.
"Not much," said Mr. Beale; "if I goes I goes, and if I stays away I stays away. It's just the not being able to make me mind up." "If he's there," said Dickie, "don't you think you ought to go, just on the chance of him being there and wanting you?" "If you come to oughts," said Beale, "I oughter gone 'ome any time this twenty year. Only I ain't. See?" "Well," said Dickie, "it's your lookout.
"Never you mind, Duster," muttered the scout. "Did you ever see a skunk-trap? Oughts is for mush-rats, and number ones is mostly used for 'coons and 'possums, and I guess they'd do for a skunk. But you and we'll call this here trap a number two, Duster, for the skunk I'm after is a big one. All you've to do is to act natural."
"Do you see that mainmast there?" pointing to the ship; "well, that's the figure one; now take all the hoops in the Pequod's hold, and string 'em along in a row with that mast, for oughts, do you see; well, that wouldn't begin to be Fedallah's age. Nor all the coopers in creation couldn't show hoops enough to make oughts enough."
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