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...mely, 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 participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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...ntents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES..............................................................................................

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ... difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous de- pression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in hav... ... 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... ...s, it is painful to witness the childish state of feeling which the French people manifest on every possible question that connects itself at any poin... ... 1789, lost his father in early life. Inheriting from him a good estate in Aberdeenshire, and one more con- siderable in Jamaica, he found himself, at... ...st advantages of a finished education, studying first at the University of Aberdeen, and afterwards for two years at Oxford; whilst he had previously ...

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...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ...ther. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor would fade from the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, th... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ... into a spacious and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third dow... ...e few more are of the list. I am told that one gentle- man in the shire of Aberdeen, viz. Sir Archibald Grant, has planted above fifty millions of tre... ...ff.”’ Johnson. ‘Knitting of stockings is a good amusement. As a freeman of Aberdeen I should be a knitter of stockings.’ He asked me to go down with h...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to the bride of Lammermoor. The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circum...

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...MMERMOOR THE AUTHOR, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occu... ...oor, the Author feels himself now at liberty to tell the tale as he had it from connexions of his own, who lived very near the period, and were closel... ...t purchased the tem- 4 Bride of Lammermoor poral prosperity of her family from the Master whom she served under a singular condition, which is thus n... ...sation of that clamour to which it had so lately echoed. But its space was peopled by phantoms which the imagination of the young heir conjured up bef... ...ings are arming, T aste not when the wine-cup glistens, Speak not when the people listens, Stop thine ear against the singer, From the red gold keep t... ..., when the yeoman’s song had died on the wind, “ever served the Ravenswood people, that he seems so much interested in them? I suppose you know, Lucy,... ...ght comes from, and where, as I judge, they are now singing ‘Cauld Kail in Aberdeen,’ ye may do your master’s errand about the venison, and I will do ... ...ike to be cauld eneugh too,” he reflected, as the chorus of “Cauld Kail in Aberdeen” again reached his ears. The minister—he had got his presentation ...

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... by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different di...

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...LUME OF PAPERS, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of mea... ...one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should... ...th particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects,... ...cular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and off... ...ny different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black ... ...h and Glasgow, or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the world, but at home we still prese... ...re is one country, for instance – its frontier not so far from London, its people closely akin, its language the same in all essentials with the Engli... ... Rock, in the fog, when the Smeaton had drifted from her moorings, and the Aberdeen men, pick in hand, had seized upon the only boats, and he must sto...