...tions, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Autobiographic... ...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... ...approximated by the utmost anxieties of man. Not the Bible, not the little book which, in past times, came next to the Bible in European diffusion and... ...,” has yet in any generation been re- ally published. Where is the printed book of which, in Coleridge’s words, it may not be said that, after all eff... ... publication of any book which interests them is secured at once; and this publishing influ- ence passes downwards; but rare, indeed, is the inverse p... ...remarked, that, in this remanufactured form, the title might be said to be japanned; alluding to this fact, that amongst insular sovereigns, the only ... ...e known to Christian diplomacy by the title of emperor is the Sovereign of Japan. 4 For the sake of those who are no classical scholars, I ex- plain:... ...- lantly threw themselves upon the most trying services in ad- vance. Some companies of the Donegal militia, not muster- ing above 200 men, marched im...

...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 di...

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