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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... ...TION TION TION TION SOME TWENTY OR MORE YEARS before I matriculated at Ox- ford, Mr. Palmer, at that time M.P . for Bath, had accom- plished two thing... ...ly called Fi Fi. A revolution of this same Chinese character did young Ox- ford of that era effect in the constitution of mail-coach soci- ety. It was... ... plans of our enemy, but still more from its keeping alive through central Europe the sense of a deep- seated vulnerability in France. Even to tease t... ...r some years as the most masterly of mail- coachmen. He was the man in all Europe that could (if any could) have driven six-in-hand full gallop over A... ...the extraordinary diseases, the insurrections of the peasantry up and down Europe—these were chords struck from the same mysterious harp; but these we...

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