Hulk Raised and Sold
Early in July, she was raised. Her hulk was sold at public auction at New York City on 25 October 1865.
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Famous quotes containing the words hulk, raised and/or sold:
“To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one the solitary old hulk at Portsmouth, Nelson’s Victory, seems to float there, not alone as the decaying monument of a fame incorruptible, but also as a poetic approach, softened by its picturesqueness, to the Monitors and yet mightier hulls of the European ironclads.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“He raised a sigh so piteous and profound
That it did seem to shatter all his bulk
And end his being.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man—not to make any invidious comparison—is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.... Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)