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... By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publicati... ...te Book of an English Opium-Eater 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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, t... ...E ...................... 54 SCHLOSSER’S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE .............................. ... the same whom you had lost sight of. Never, through the course of a whole century, could there be a night expected more propitious to an escaping cri... ... that might be mentioned), the rule evidently acted upon by the Founder of Christianity was this—Given the purifica- tion of the well-head, once assum... ...character of their thoughts and expectations. He that in the early days of Christianity should have proclaimed the true theory of the solar system, or... ...gth of religious principle somewhat exceeding the ordinary standard of the 19th century. But, however palli- ated, their bigotry is not to be denied; ...

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...ORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the ... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsyl... ...agem often proves furthersome, his Majesty announces a Royal Hunt, for the 19th of Novem- ber next; and all whom it concerns are joyfully getting thei... ...-legged unfeathered game! At eleven in the morning of that Royal-Hunt day, 19th of No- vember 1787, unexpected blare of trumpetting, tumult of chariot... ...ushed back into its dim depths, and the streets are swept clear. Not for a century and half had Rascality ventured to step forth in this fashion; not ... ...g thee forth stepdamelike, a Distrac- tion into this distracted Eighteenth Century? Work is appointed thee there; which thou shalt do. The Three Hundr... ... Thing is then ours, and can be dealt with. Now surely not realization, of Christianity, or of aught earthly, do we discern in this Reign of Terror, i...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

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...dited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnish... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...quisitely wrought, of Johnson amid widely various set- tings of Eighteenth-Century England. And sub- ject and setting are so closely allied that each ... ...n was, undoubtedly, much formed upon that of the great writers in the last century, Hooker, Bacon, Sanderson, Hakewell, and others; those ‘Giants,’ as... ... for the Sabbath, yet without that attention to its religious duties which Christianity requires; ‘1. To rise early, and in order to it, to go to slee... ... a Deist; for no man could be so after a fair examination of the proofs of Christianity.’ I named Hume. Johnson. ‘No, Sir; Hume owned to a clergyman i... ...ctober 24, 1780. ‘SIR, ‘I have this moment received your letter, dated the 19th, and returned from Bath. ‘In the beginning of the summer I placed one ...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second translated by Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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...Contents CHAPTER I OF THE INCONSTANCY OF OUR ACTIONS ...................................................... 5 CHAPTER II OF DRUNKENNESS .............................................................................................. 14 CHAPTER III A...

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...Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Second T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1... ...tion ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second trans. Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publicati... ...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Penn- sylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Second trans. Charles Co... ...llel betwixt them, that fortune brought them into the world about the same century: they were both tutors to two Roman em- perors: both sought out fro... ...sed against us. “He was,” says Eutropius, my other wit- ness, “an enemy to Christianity, but without putting his hand to blood.” And, to return to his... ... “Nec viriliter Iners senile penis extulit caput.” [(The 19th or 20th century translators leave this phrase untranslated and with no... ... “Nec viriliter Iners senile penis extulit caput.” [(The 19th or 20th century translators leave this phrase untranslated and with no explanation....