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...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...says and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ........................................................... 108 LORD CARLISLE ON POPE....................................................................... ... of ‘presentation’ as an obstacle too formidable to be separately attacked on its own account, made their stand upon one of the two acts which lie nex... ...of the scale on which our modern contributions proceed for the purposes of missions to barbarous nations, of circulating the Scriptures, (whether thro... ...vowed itself in their words. The case began Jacobinically, for it began in attacks upon the rights of property. But since the defeat of this faction b... ...that sup- ply the most curious illustrations of classical antiquity. Their attacks are not confined to those who approach the premises of which they a... ...allowed for a few Frenchmen carried of necessity into foreign lands by the diplomatic concerns of so vast a country, and for a few art- ists travellin...

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