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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.....................

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...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ......................... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 ................................ ...ther Southey held at this time his ap- pointment to the editorship of the ‘Edinburgh Annual Reg- ister.’ If he did, no doubt in the domestic section o... ..., then upon art; if upon art and science, then upon every branch of social economy his reformations and advances are equally due—due as to all, if due... ..., which Pericles created, beautified, promoted. I protest, when seeing the Edinburgh theatre’s programme, that a note dated from the Vatican would not... ...all the employments which are depen- dent in any degree upon the political economy of nations, this tendency is too obvious to have been overlooked. A... ...) in the whole evolution of the human faculties, no less than in Political Economy, the progress of society brings with it a necessity of sacrificing ...

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...Excerpt: The ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects. From her tall precipice and...

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...n Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rt Louis Stevenson E DINGBURGH PICTURESQUE NOTES by Robert Louis Stevenson EDINBURGH CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. THE ANCIENT AND FAMOUS metropolis of the... ... all the carse of Stirling, you can see the first snows upon Ben Ledi. But Edinburgh pays cruelly for her high seat in one of the vilest climates unde... ...a voyage to brighter skies. Happy the passengers who shake off the dust of Edinburgh, and have heard for the last time the cry of the 4 EDINGBURGH PI... ...their dwellings in a panic of fear, and returned to them again in a fit of economy or self- respect; when, in the black hours of a Sunday morning, the...

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...e Quincey A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...was summoned into the dining-room. In giving an account of her house- hold economy she happened to mention that she had let her apartments. Thereupon ... ... meaning, doubtless, to resume it as soon as he could afford it. The inner economy of such a man’s daily life would present a most strange picture, if... ...turned my attention to 66 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater political economy; my understanding, which formerly had been as active and restless a... ... fungus-heads to powder with a lady’s fan. At length, in 1819, a friend in Edinburgh sent me down Mr. Ricardo’s book; and recurring to my own propheti... ... derived no ben- efit from any medicine, except one prescribed to me by an Edinburgh surgeon of great eminence, viz., ammoniated tinc- ture of valeria...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who will be the new bishop? In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old Dr. Grantly, who h...

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...n Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...Roy MacGregor, at the Clachan of Balquhidder. Invernahyle chanced to be in Edinburgh when Paul Jones came into the Frith of Forth, and though then an ... ...ction, it is not unpleasant to compare it with those of the last war, when Edinburgh, besides regular forces and militia, furnished a vol- unteer brig... ...London, he proceeded on horseback, then the general mode of travelling, to Edinburgh, and from thence to Dundee, a seaport on the eastern coast of Ang... ... of the piece. This hospitality, apparently unbounded, had yet its line of economy . Some pains had been bestowed in dressing the dishes of fish, game... ..., apparently out of choice, for the liquor which was assigned to them from economy. [See Note 18.] The bagpipers, three in number, screamed, during th...

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...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house 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 ...

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... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

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...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... but one step removed; for, how came veterana by that acceptation in rural economy? 28 Memorials, and Other Papers helpers. Lord Carbery, who had rec... ...dred pounds per annum. But was it not possible that even this sum might by economy be made to meet the 96 Memorials, and Other Papers necessities of ... ...tu- ally realized and sustained for generations, in Leipsic, sup- pose, or Edinburgh, or Leyden, or Salamanca? This is the question of questions, to w... ..., they are proceeding upon a 105 Thomas de Quincey silent comparison with Edinburgh, Glasgow, Jena, Leipsic, Padua, &c.,—then are they self-exposed, ... ...ersity forms but a small part of a vast capital city, as it does in Paris, Edinburgh, Madrid, Vienna, Berlin, and Petersburg, liable to every mode of ... ...ary altar? The insti- tution of the Sabbath, again—what part of the Mosaic economy could it more plausibly have been expected that God should vindicat...

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When...

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.................................... 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY................................................................................................ 30 SECTIO...

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...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...like the elaboration of a mine of results. … Taylor led him into political economy, into the Greek and Latin accents, into antiquities, Roman roads, o... ...tributing to various magazines. He soon exchanged London and the Lakes for Edinburgh and its suburb, Lasswade, where the remainder of his life was spe... ...s suburb, Lasswade, where the remainder of his life was spent. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and its rival T att’s Magazine received a large num- ber... ...ast years he nearly completed a collected edition of his works. He died in Edinburgh on the 8th of December, 1859. II. CRITICAL REMARKS II. CRITICAL R... ...he Cæsars; (c) Speculative and Theological essays; (d) Essays in Political Economy and Politics; (e) Papers of Literary Theory and Criticism, such as ...

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...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

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...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..................................................................................................... 11 Second Paper on Murder, Considered as One of the Fine...

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...es Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...respect both to time and place, there is a fine exception in the annals of Edinburgh, (year 1805,) familiar to every child in Edinburgh, but which has... ...-hole, I ought to mention, about nine years be- fore, when an express from Edinburgh brought him the ear- liest intelligence of the Burke-and-Hare rev... ...thing like the fine thriving whole- sale concern so carelessly blown up at Edinburgh. ‘You see what comes of neglecting business,’—is the chief moral,... ... as a nation took. It was no accident, but arose out of their whole social economy. This we shall show by run- ning through the history of a Roman day... ...f this review will expose one or two important truths in ancient political economy, which have been wholly overlooked. With the lark it was that the R... ... .M., so far from being ratified by the public sense, and adopted into the economy of the day, were regarded gloomily as gross irregu- 149 larities, ...

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... CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM M...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...pulent, though not emphatically rich in a mercantile estimate—the domestic economy is pretty sure to move upon a scale of liberality altogether unknow... ...England and in Ireland. From this peculiar anomaly, affecting the domestic economy of English mer- chants, there arises a disturbance upon the usual s... ... and otherwise the most interesting, of his female aristocratic friends in Edinburgh. Lord Monboddo himself trod an eccentric path in literature and p... ...her for employing these two young girls in menial offices of the household economy. One reason for that was, that she thus indulged her dislike for th... ...world—viz., a critical edition of the. “Paradise Lost.” I observe, in the “Edinburgh Review,” (July, 1851, No. 191, p. 15,) that a learned critic supp... ...ivid with anger does not jest, and does not understand jesting. Still, the Edinburgh Reviewer is right about the proper functions of the book, though ...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...................

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...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V... ... Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ngthways and breadthways, there was not a public usage, an institution, an economy, which more profoundly slept in the sunshine of divine favor or of ... ... estima- tion. At the latter end of 1842, they summoned a convoca- tion in Edinburgh. The discussions were private; but it was generally understood th... ...te you that Mr. Hartmann is now in Hades (as I said before) rather than in Edinburgh; for, had he been in this latter place, he would have been the ru... ...nternal connection, as parts of one great pro- cess, carrying on the great economy of human improvement by many stages in many regions at one and the ... ...si- tion into the minor police of domestic life, and into petty details of economy below the majesty of his official charac- ter, even their vigilance...

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