1. Billy Budd (Full)
  2. Chapter 7
  3. leaf 203
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4 1 72 84 It was ^ The said convictions were as a dyke serving to resist those
invading angry impetuous waters of new-fangled novel opinion
social and political ^ and otherwise, which carried
away as in a deluge torrent no few minds
in those days, minds by nature not
inferior to his own. While other members
of that aristocracy to which ^ by birth he belonged
were incensed at the innovaters
mainly because the their theories advocated
were inimical to the ir interests as a privileged class classes ,
not alone Captain Vere / disinterestedly intellectually ^ disinterestedly opposed
them not alone as ^ in great part impracticable but
so far partaking of the unsound as
to border on the insane. cracked It was from France
that was came the tempest then
sweeping the greater part of Christendom;
4 1 72 84 It was ^ The said convictions were as a dyke serving to resist those
invading angry impetuous waters of new-fangled novel opinion
social and political ^ and otherwise, which carried
away as in a deluge torrent no few minds
in those days, minds by nature not
inferior to his own. While other members
of that aristocracy to which ^ by birth he belonged
were incensed at the innovaters
mainly because the their theories advocated
were inimical to the ir interests as a privileged class classes ,
not alone Captain Vere / disinterestedly intellectually ^ disinterestedly opposed
them not alone as ^ in great part impracticable but
so far partaking of the unsound as
to border on the insane. cracked It was from France
that was came the tempest then
sweeping the greater part of Christendom;

Transcribed by: John Bryant