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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...gnedly insinuated by myself. My father was a merchant; not in the sense of Scotland, where it means a retail dealer, one, for instance, who sells groc... ...all accounts, something of the same kind might plausibly have been said in Scotland about the Burnetts. Lord Monboddo’s nieces, of whom one perished b... ...o all points of the compass, and too often (as must happen in such immense establishments) blundered into my room with that appalling, “Now, sir, the ... ...the best features, as to cleanliness and neatness, of well-managed private establishments. NO NO NO NO NOTES TES TES TES TES 1 It marks the rapidity ... ...w, in beauty and in power. Where- fore did he not put forth his power upon establishments that might cultivate happiness as well as knowledge? Wherefo... ...ate he had effected his escape from the pirates; and a long time after, in 1807, I believe, (I 283 Autobiographic Sketches write without books to con...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, t... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ll cease. To-morrow is the day which in England they call Sunday, which in Scotland they call by the Judaic name of ‘Sabbath.’ T o both nations, under... ... in a state of transition so sure and so rapid to the headship of domestic establishments belong- 15 Thomas de Quincey ing to themselves, that in eff... ...s generation, for anything but the ‘whistling of a name,’ the Fox of 1780- 1807 sleeps where the carols of the larks are sleeping, that gladdened the ... ...for Cholmondeley, Pomfret for Pontefract, Cicester for Cirencester; or, in Scotland, Marchbanks for Majoribanks, Chatorow for the Duke of Hamilton’s F... ...ave said, I sought his acquaintance. Coming up to London from Oxford about 1807 or 1808 I made inquiries about him; and found that he usually read the...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...time, was elegant and comfortable, but not splendid. As usual in En- glish establishments, all the appointments were complete, and carried to the same... ... forms of the English lakes, of North Yorkshire, and of Northumberland. In Scotland, it needs but a slight intercourse with the peasantry to distin- ... ...re that they had existed for centuries before the state of civilization in Scotland had allowed any opening for the foundation of col- leges or academ... ...ollege, known by the name of Univer- sity College, one of twenty-five such establishments in Ox- ford, had regularly corrected it into “gates of the U... ... of professors and students, and a point of concentration to the different establishments of implements and machinery for elaborate researches [as, fo... ...en- sible object, as a mask to its political designs, expired at Munich in 1807; but not before it had founded a successor more directly political. He...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ,... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ... of its drainage basin is as great as the combined areas of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Aus tria, Italy, an... ...y request. One day, during a ramble about the city, I visited one of the two establishments where the Govern ment keeps and watches corpses until the... ...d follow it, in parenthe ses, with some such observation as “disappeared in 1807, if I remember rightly.” In these antique interjections lay poison a...

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...TER TER, ET , ET , ET , ET , ETC. ET C. ET C. ET C. ET C. ETC. C. C. C. C. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Qu... ...re overwhelming to the Scottish use of the word; first, because already in Scotland it is a barbarism trans- planted from the filthy vocabulary of att... ... too soon, by which the Fates cut short the thread of the Whig ministry in 1807. Certainly, for a Romish or an English bishop to be a Socinian is un p... ...ike a hornet. To be a Cambridge man in those days was to be a hater of all Establishments in England; things and persons were hated alike. I hope the ... ... the contrary, to my thinking, the regular old vulgar witch of England and Scotland was but an impersonatrix of the very same superstition. Virgil exp... ...eemed in Edinburgh and Glasgow. He may be relied on. What he tells against Scotland is vio- lently against his own will, for he is intensely national,...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...taint is removed. I have somewhere read that the islanders in the north of Scotland treat the rank carcasses of the fish-eating birds in the same mann... ...ed of any other coun- try: it may be compared to the valley of Lochness in Scotland, with its chain of lakes and friths. It is about 241 Charles Darw... ...-weed grows extremely quick. — Mr. Stephenson found (Wilson’s Voyage round Scotland, vol. ii. p. 228) that a rock uncovered only at spring-tides, whic... ...in Central America, and slowly travelled southward. It reached Arequipa in 1807; and it is said that some men there, who had not been bitten, were aff... ...ace offers an example of one of the large farming, or rather sheep-grazing establishments of the colony. Cattle and horses are, however, in this case ...