...Y A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...a successful flight, and, there- fore, for the following revolution in the romance of his own abominable life. He had in his pockets above a hundred p... ...s of years. 5 Let the reader, who is disposed to regard as exaggerated or romantic the pure fiendishness imputed to Williams, recol- lect that, excep... ...ar more playful and genial than Swift’s; something of this is shown in his romance of ‘Idris,’ and oftentimes in his prose. But what the world knows W... ...d, upon principles of fidelity under political suffer- ing, with the Roman Catholics, to say little in his own de- fence. That defence, and any revers... ... at the age of twenty-four. Except that he favored the claims of the Irish Catholics, his policy was pretty uniformly that of Mr. Pitt. He supported t...

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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...................... 5...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ..., as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Mid... ...ity of life, he dreamed awake, he saw with his eyes the fantastic world of romances he had read in his idle hours. Any Parisian leaving, as he did, th... ...d rose amid the appointments of modern luxury and the choice appliances of English “com- fort,” he remembered the details of his visit to that cloiste... ...om the confidence expressed in the house of Mongenod was not a wound. Like English houses, the Mongenods made no external display of luxury. They live... ...t the matter. “How old is she?” he began to ask himself; and a vision of a romance in the rue Chanoinesse came to him. “She certainly has an air of no... ... in its entirety. He grew impatient to enter the inner lives of these pure Catholics. In that small company of faithful souls, the majesty of practica... ...lime friendship of these five persons, wondering in his heart to find true Catholics, true Chris- tians of the early Church, in the Paris of 1836. VI ...

...pare with it in the capital of ideas. We feel ourselves on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis-Philippe. Vestiges are before us of all those sovereignties, in monuments that recall...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Copy... ... equal opportunity University. Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER I... ...s History of England by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left ha... ... cient Britons, fifty five years before the birth of Our Saviour, when the Romans, under their A Child’s Histroy of England 12 great General, Julius ... ... and he died in Rome, or whether he ever returned to his own dear country. English oaks have grown up from acorns, and withered away, when they were h... ...he streets, crying for bread; and that this beggar woman was the poisoning English queen. It was, in deed, Edburga; and so she died, without a shel ... ...to England she began to be the centre of plots and miseries. A rise of the Catholics in the north was the next of these, and it was only checked by ma... ...th to consent to his marriage with Mary and to repeal the laws against the Catholics, he was re committed to the Tower and brought to trial. He was fo... ...e. This dull creature was made to be lieve by his mother and other fierce Catholics about him that the Huguenots meant to take his life; and he was p...

...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED..........................

...g student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...tion To Don Michele Angelo Cajetani, Prince of Teano. It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representa- tive of the illustrious house of Cajet... ...uthor of some strange tales indeed, who left us the splendid collection of romances whence Shakespeare derived many of his plots and even com- plete c... ...at of a perfect lover dy- ing for his mistress. In the same way, these two romances form a pair, like twins of opposite sexes. This is a literary vaga... ...assion of this character, marked by eccentricities— a word invented by the English to describe the craziness not of the asylum, but of respectable hou... ...an of the past; now and again the Frenchman wakes up and kicks against his English-made casing; but ambition stifles him, and he submits to be smother... ...knees before Adeline, took up the hem of her dress and kissed it, as pious Catholics kiss the holy relics of a martyr. “Nay, get up, Hortense,” said t...

...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator ...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and ... .................................................... .................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ..................................................... ...tunate. I have examined many fine and apparently self sacrificing deeds in romances and biographies, but— O.M. Under searching analysis the ostensible... ...alists? And why were the Congregationalists not Baptists, and the Baptists Roman Catholics, and the Roman Catholics Buddhists, and the Buddhists Quake... ...? And why were the Congregationalists not Baptists, and the Baptists Roman Catholics, and the Roman Catholics Buddhists, and the Buddhists Quakers, an... ... can come within a split hair of guessing the complexion of his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italia... ...; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And wh... ...m. Both of these men have been Presbyterians, Uni versalists, Methodists, Catholics—then Presbyterians again, What Is Man and Other Essays 74 then M... ...tant Church retorts in kind about the confessional and other matters which Catholics hold sacred; then both of these irreverencers turn upon Thomas Pa...

...LIAM DEAN HOWELLS ............................................................................................................................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ............................................................................................................................ 156 A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET.....................................................

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ............................................................ 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................. ...cey PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE T T T T TO O O O O THE ENGLISH EDITION THE ENGLISH EDITION THE ENGLISH EDITION THE ENGLISH EDITION... ...sible read- ers, “as good as manuscript”? Not to insist, however, upon any romantic rigor in constructing this idea, and abiding by the ordinary stand... ...n a saintly scheme of ethics; but where is the scheme of mediation? In the Roman church, there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to... ... there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to suspect the romance of “Essenismus.” And I am not sure that the knowledge of this fact ... ..., a haughty petition was addressed to the throne, on behalf of the Ro- man Catholics, by an association that arrogated to itself the style and title o... ...the whole line of this retreat, they continued to burn the cabins of Roman Catholics, and often to massacre, in cold blood, the unoffending inhabit- a... ...nd the spirit of massacre! What did that mean? It meant this: Some Ro- man Catholics had pleaded, and pleaded truly, as a reason for special indulgenc...

...MERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..................................................................................... 6 CHAPTER I: THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD ................................................................ 16 CHAPTER II: IN...

...The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a sple... ... such consideration and was the most characteristic object in the peculiarly English picture I have attempted to sketch. It stood upon a low hill, abo... ...ne of these was a remarkably well made man of five and thirty, with a face as English as that of the old gentleman I have just sketched was something e... ... nothing about bills; but even as a child she thought her grandmother’s home romantic. There was a covered piazza behind it, furnished with a swing wh... ...enth year) she had been neither frightened nor ashamed, but had thought it a romantic episode in a liberal education. Her father had a large way of lo... ... was tall, strong and somewhat stiff; he was also lean and brown. He was not romantically, he was much rather obscurely, handsome; but his physiognomy... ... he had evoked and seemed greatly pleased with it. And then he went on: “The Catholics are very wise after all. The convent is a great institution; we...

...this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...t from mouth and nose, have remained even till our own times to show how a Roman soldier did his duty. In like manner the last of the old Spanish infa... ...ul medi- cine, except at a price far beyond their means, and heard that an English traveler had offered a large price for a pair of eaglets. The only ... ...show. Y et, it was paralleled in the time of the Indian Mutiny, when every English man and woman was flying from the rage of the Sepoys at Benares, an... ...f those very native corps who were advancing to massacre him. This was the Roman sentry’s firmness, more voluntary and more glorious. Nor 10 A Book o... ...devotion of one man has been the saving of an army. Such, according to old Roman story, was the feat of Horatius Cocles. It was in the year B.C. 507, ... ...in the year 1631, in the midst of the long Thirty Years’ Was between Roman Catholics and Protestants, which finally decided that each state should hav...

...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsy... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylva- nia State Univ... ...g student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ty is an equal opportunity university. 3 Hawthorne The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Two Volumes Volume One CHAP... ...ludes the pointed ears! O, it is impossible, of course,” she continued, in English, “with a real and commonplace young man like Donatello; but you see... ...her country. By still another account she was the lady of 17 Hawthorne an English nobleman; and, out of mere love and honor of art, had thrown aside ... ...oves and the angels for your nearest neighbors. I should not wonder if the Catholics were to make a saint of you, like your namesake of old; especiall...

...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsy... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylva- nia State Univ... ...g student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ty is an equal opportunity university. 3 Hawthorne The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Two Volumes Volume One CHAP... ...ludes the pointed ears! O, it is impossible, of course,” she continued, in English, “with a real and commonplace young man like Donatello; but you see... ...her country. By still another account she was the lady of 17 Hawthorne an English nobleman; and, out of mere love and honor of art, had thrown aside ... ...oves and the angels for your nearest neighbors. I should not wonder if the Catholics were to make a saint of you, like your namesake of old; especiall... ...e being a crucifix in one corner, and a multitude of holy emblems, such as Catholics judge it necessary to help their devotion withal. Several ugly li... ...its irresistibles might against ugly Evil, appealed as much to Puritans as Catholics. Suddenly, and as if it were done in a dream, Hilda found herself...

...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni: Volume Two by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication o... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni: Volume Two by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylvania ... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... equal opportunity university. 3 Hawthorne The Marble Faun Vol. II or The Romance of Monte Beni By Nathaniel Hawthorne CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIV CHA... ...e interest which some of you Forestieri take in them. A year or two ago an English signore, with a venerable white beard—they say he 34 The Marble Fa... ...e being a crucifix in one corner, and a multitude of holy emblems, such as Catholics judge it necessary to help their devotion withal. Several ugly li... ...nd farther responses, at various distances along the valley; for, like the English drumbeat around the globe, there is a chain of convent bells from e... ...its irresistibles might against ugly Evil, appealed as much to Puritans as Catholics. Suddenly, and as if it were done in a dream, Hilda found herself... ...n for aught that is narrow and selfish. Methinks it is this that makes the Catholics so delight in the worship of saints; they can bring up all their ...

...L 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 VOL. II. OL. II. OL.... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...L 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 VOL. II. OL. II. OL... ...lf with snake-like folds about the legal es- tablishment; surmount it as a Roman vinea surmounted the fortifications which it beleaguered; and which, ... ...u published a translation of Bottiger’s ‘Sabina,’ a learned account of the Roman toilette. I here send you a companion to that work—not a direct trans... ... Bottiger remarks, that, even in the age of Augustus, the morning dress of Roman ladies when at home was nothing more than this very tunic; which, if ... ...n secretly foremost in the recent outbreak of fanaticism against the Roman Catholics; but unfortunately it happened that, although not hating the Low ...

...upon them. I hope I am not likely to be misunderstood by Professors of the Roman Catholic faith, on account of anything con tained in these pages. I ... ... sanctity of all Priests and Friars; I do no more than many conscientious Catholics both abroad and at home. I have likened these Pictures to shadows... ... themes I have now in my mind, without inter ruption: and while I keep my English audience within speak ing distance, extend my knowledge of a noble... ...h the first chapter of a Middle Aged novel is usually attained—but when an English travelling carriage of considerable proportions, fresh from the sha... ... Meurice in the Rue Rivoli at Paris. I am no more bound to explain why the English family travelling by this carriage, inside and out, should be start... ... lorn surprise; and returning to my villa: the Villa Bagnerello (it sounds romantic, but Signor Bagnerello is a butcher hard by): have sufficient occu... ...ng with a clasp knife, his own personal property, something smaller than a Roman sword. The whole party on board were made merry by these un expected... ...rger than life and which is constantly having its great toe kissed by good Catholics. You cannot help seeing that: it is so very prominent and popular... ...m happy to know that it is not considered immaculate, by some who are good Catholics, and who are behind the scenes, from what was told me by the near...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... of the particulars, consisted of a sufficient quantity of linen, and some English thin stuffs, for clothing the Span- iards that I expected to find t... ...his being written down, they gave to the Spaniards (two of them understood English well enough): nor did they refuse to ac- commodate the Spaniards wi... ...e out of the ship’ s crew whom I took up at sea. It is true this man was a Roman, and perhaps it may give offence to some hereafter if I leave anythin... ... sir, the essence of the sacrament of matrimony” (so he called it, being a Roman) “consists not only in the mutual consent of the parties to take one ... ...he answered, with abundance of candour, thus: “Sir, I am a Catholic of the Roman Church, and a priest of the order of St. Benedict, and I embrace all ... ...ight principles; and as he thought that the like charity would make us all Catholics, so I told him I believed, had all the members of his Church the ... ...p us company with any pleasure.” – “Oh,” says he, “you may perhaps be good Catholics in time; my business here is to convert heathens, and who knows b...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... the quotations, which were in a most corrupt state, and of which Cotton’s English versions were singularly loose and inexact, and for the zeal with w... ...t, and for the zeal with which he has co-operated with me in collating the English text, line for line and word for word, with the best French edition... ...ys: Book the First what is left of the Temple of Concord, along the ‘Forum Romanum’, of which the fall seems quite recent, like that of some huge moun... ... out of the ruins of the theatre of Marcellus. He believed that an ancient Roman would not recognise the place again. It often happened that in diggin... ...al, with difficulty speaks.”—Æneid, iii. 306.] Besides the examples of the Roman lady, who died for joy to see her son safe returned from the defeat o... ...ur consciences in the commotions we are now in concerning religion, is the Catholics dispensing so much with their belief. They fancy they appear mode... ...UX TLE OF DREUX TLE OF DREUX TLE OF DREUX [December 19, 1562, in which the Catholics, under the com- mand of the Duc de Guise and the Constable de Mon...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... birth, Scotch by extraction; and became, as he himself did, es- sentially English by long residence and habit. Of John him- self Scotland has little ... ... Bristol Channel, and far off, the Hills of Devonshire, for boundary,—the “English Hills,” as the natives call them, visible from every eminence in th... ...t of these two Universities, Cambridge is decidedly the more catholic (not Roman catholic, but Human catholic) in its tendencies and habitudes; and th... ...ch of Sterling’s and ours. A world all rocking and plunging, like that old Roman one when the measure of its iniquities was full; the abysses, and sub... ...in camps and coun- cil-rooms, in presence-chambers and in prisons. He knew romantic Spain;—he was himself, standing withal in the vanguard of Freedom’... ...sincerity and splendor that there once was in the semi-paganism of the old Catholics comes out in St. Peter’s and its dependencies, almost as grandly ...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...sted with the grace of poetry, and the driest statistics with the charm of romance. Western emigration seemed commonplace and prosaic till M. de Tocqu... ...ot turned to the advantage of equality. The Cru- sades and the wars of the English decimated the nobles and divided their possessions; the erection of... ...es of the Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlantic Ocean where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of... ...the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 150, he t... ...the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 150, he t... ...en who professed a democratic and republican Christianity – Arrival of the Catholics – For what reason the Catholics form the most democratic and the ... ... pour a Catholic population into the United States; on the other hand, the Catholics of America made proselytes, and at the present moment more than a... ...ing the truths of the Church of Rome are to be met with in the Union.* The Catholics are faithful to the observances of their religion; they are ferve...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ed, that Ithacus, the most wise of the Greeks, acquired his renown, as the Roman poet hath assured us, by visiting states and men, I reply to the Zoil... ...ture after the fa- tigues of my school. It is true, I taught his five sons English and Latin, writing, book-keeping, with a tincture of math- ematics,... ...f Queen Anne, the reign- ing sovereign. Godolphin, then at the head of the English administration, foresaw that there was no other mode of avoiding th... ... the coarse, rough-hewn stamp, with which a painter would equip a giant in romance; to which was added the wild, ir- regular, and peculiar expression,... ...quences of his OR, were he the most cruel father that ever was recorded in romance, to fill up the alternative.” “And what if he threatened you with a... ...t the bottom o’ the haill villainy! Ye see he’s leagued wi’ the Cumberland Catholics; and that agrees weel wi’ what Elshie hinted about Westburnflat, ... ...rily looked for. Several of the gentlemen who took part in this divan were Catholics, and all of them stanch Jacobites, whose hopes were at present at...

...g student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...validate my assumption that if we go back only to the closing years of the Roman Republic, we go back to an age in which nearly every person living wi... ... which nearly every person living within the confines of what was then the Roman Empire who left living offspring must have been ancestral to every pe... ...erty as such, sensibilities can be hardened to endure the life led by the “Romans” in Dartmoor jail a hundred years ago (See “The Story of Dartmoor Pr... ... be- longs. The religious marriage is considered the only one bind- ing by Catholics, and the civil ceremony is respected merely because the State has... .... Wells thing of the sort has indeed happened to both the Catholic and the English Protestant churches. We have the intellec- tual and moral guidance ... ...ere not the case that Socialists, Individualists, high Anglicans and Roman Catholics are ALL against Marriage and the Family as these institutions exi...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ly,” added the young man with a melancholy smile, “to make war against the English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like everybody else.”... ...re arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long stre... ... some accident, — he read: — “This treasure, which may amount to two... of Roman crowns in the most distant a... of the second opening wh... declare t... ...s of the Holy See, and Caesar Spada, one of the noblest and richest of the Roman nobility; both felt the high honor of such a favor from the pope. The... ... and his famous bre- viary. All these he bequeathed to me, with a thousand Roman crowns, which he had in ready money, on condition that I would have a... ... reason for so publicly announcing all this is, that all good and faithful Catholics may offer up their prayers for the unfortunate culprits, and, abo...