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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original se- ries. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of y... ... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...ir young friend spoke of Dr. Primrose, of Sophia and her sister, of Squire Thornhill, &c., as real and probably liv- ing personages, who could sue and... ...ore earnestly a student than his friend Lord Massey, who had probably been educated at home un- der a private tutor. He read everything connected with... ..., in the persons of their children, meeting for study at the same schools, colleges, military academies, &c.; by what furious forgetfulness of the rea... ...apter), this noble foundation secured a number of exhibitions at Brasenose College, Oxford, to those pupils of the school who should study at Manchest... ...ing composed of those who are “noble;” the other, of families equally well educated and accomplished, but not, in the continental sense, “noble.” The ...

...motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of your individual house, the Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, according to the amplest extent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to posses...

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