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...es which you have already rendered me; namely, 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...

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...MEMORIALS and OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION M... ...e new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original se- ries. But at all events, goo... ...ouse, the Messrs. TICKNOR & FIELDS, according to the amplest extent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or cust... ...of human nature. But, on the contrary, the Peace Societies would, if their power kept pace with their guilty purposes, work degradation for man by dra... ...he islands of the East. The subject of the torment in that case as a woman who had been charged with some act of infidelity to her husband. And the lo... ...s too commonly abused the patience and long- suffering of Young England, I took a post-chaise to Laxton. The distance was but nine miles, and the post... ...eclined the requisition, and would furnish only four, on the plea that the leaders would only embarrass the other horses; but one at Bangor, from whom... ...o large- boned horses, usually taken from the plough, were harnessed on as leaders. By main force they hauled our wicked wheel- ers into the right dir... ...made by that brutal horse; and I, therefore, being a passenger on the box, took a note of the case; and on a proper occasion I may be induced to publi...

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...quent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin cast upo...

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is... ...he ‘unusual combination.’ A witty woman is a treasure; a witty Beauty is a power. Has she actual beauty, actual wit? —not simply a tidal material beau... ...he judged. But Dorset Wilmers was a political opponent of the eminent Peer who yields the second name to the scandal, and politics in his day flushed ... ...d add no yapping to the spectacle. Thousands have reflected on a Diarist’s power to cancel our Burial Service. Not alone the cleric’s good work is ups... ...t aching for mankind sought a nest for itself. At this point Lady Dunstane took the lead. Diana had to be tugged to follow. She could not accept a ‘pe... ... She remembered long afterward the sweet simpleness of her feelings as she took in the scent of wild flowers along the lanes and entered the woods jaw... ...our hope. The middleaged are hard and fast for existing facts. We pick our leaders on the slopes, the incline and decline of the moun- tain—not on the... ...tion of bread.’ ‘It involves many other questions.’ ‘And how clearly those leaders put their case! They are ad- mirable debaters. If I were asked to w...

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

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...C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A... ...e new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good ... ... Messrs. TICKNOR, REED, & FIELDS, accord- ing to the amplest extent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or cust... ...r grounds of separation, must, at the very threshold, by warning off those who dis- sent from them, so far operate to limit your audience. To take my ... ...e motives to self-restraint, cannot be confidential— have it not in their power to lay aside reserve; and many, again, cannot be so with particular p... ...es in that direction. I never heard that the woman accused of this cruelty took it at all to heart, even after the event which so immediately succeede... ... brother very naturally despised me; and, from his exceeding frankness, he took no pains to conceal that he did. Why should he? Who was it that could ... ...d them; you see a soldier step out from the ranks to assume this dangerous leadership; the party moves rapidly forward; in a few minutes it is swallow... ...nce was not very extensive amongst the clerical body. But of these the two leaders, as regarded public consideration, were Mr. 120 Thomas de Quincey ...

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...nic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsy... ... and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their enemy, whe... ...elopment of strength, in population, wealth, and military and commer- cial power, as no age had ever witnessed. De Tocqueville had a special inquiry t... ...d been recently written in the blood of men and women of great distinction who were his progenitors; and had witnessed the agitations and terrors of t... ...e- gan his studies of Democracy in America. It was a bold ef- fort for one who had no special training in government, or in the study of political eco... ...ith all their official entou- rage, aligned themselves in their places and took up the pow- ers and duties of local government in perfect order and wi... ...urch, and the being who as a serf must have vegetated in perpetual bondage took his place as a priest in the midst of nobles, and not infrequently abo... ...e pure morality, quiet habits, af- fluence, and talents fit them to be the leaders of the sur- rounding population; their love of their country is sin... ...class which headed the insur- rection in the South, and furnished the best leaders of the American revolution. 66 Democracy in America At the period ...

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...eciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude; and not many--if we except the cities of Greece, none at all--in the grandeur of ar...

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...DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...aculate from the arms of Sylla and of Marius. But, if it were Caius Julius who deflowered Rome, if under him she forfeited her dowery of civic purity,... ...ld be permanently relied on in a serious trial of strength between the two powers. The kings of Parthia, therefore, were far enough from being regarde... ...forces to the majesty of Rome. And, these withdrawn from the com- parison, who else was there—what prince, what king, what potentate of any denominati... ...ined, and thus imperishable, argues a transcendent in the basis of radical power. Broad and deep must those foundations have been laid, which could su... ...nt; and of whom, and the motions of whose will, the very prophets of Judea took cognizance. No nation, and no king, was utterly divorced from the coun... ...erial pursuit. If he went down to the sea, there he met the emperor: if he took the wings of the morning, and fled to the uttermost parts of the earth... ... times over staked as the prize, had sever- ally brought upon the defeated leaders a ruin which was total, absolute, and final. One hour had seen the ... ...was believed to have framed plans for removing all his enemies at once—the leaders of the rebellion, by appointing successors to their offices, and se...

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...shed on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the Great Saint-Bernard, and the valley of Aosta....

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...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...is the Isere; Cochard, a learned Lyonnais, calls it the Drome, and for all who have eyes to see there are between Scoras and Scrivia great geographica... ... full of such obscurities that we are ignorant of the real name of the man who navigated a vessel by steam to Barcelona at the period when Luther and ... ...general, who dis- tinguished himself at the battle of Agincourt, and there took prisoner the Duc d’Alencon, captured, in 1420, the town of Montereau, ... ... to annihilate the monarchy, without friends, aware of treachery among the leaders of the Catholic party, foreseeing a republic in the Calvinist party... ... the republican insurrection at Saint-Merri and the rue T ransnonnain. All power, legitimate or illegitimate, must defend itself when attacked; but th... ... that where the people are held heroic in their victory over the nobility, power is called murderous in its duel with the people. If it succumbs after... ...ng itself, as it was formerly forced to do to remain in communicable form, took on a multitude of garments and became, as it were, the people itself, ... ...divined except by de Thou, l’Hopital, and minds of that calibre, or by the leaders of the two parties who were coveting or defending the throne, and b...

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...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ... ...ord Melbourne, might have prevented them in part. But Lord Aberdeen has no power to stifle a conflagration once thoroughly kindled. That must depend i... ...ompt a murmur against it. But the wise and intelligent approved; and those who had the appropriate—that is, the religious interest—confessed that it w... ...cessful. From whom, then, came the attempt to change? Why, from those only who had an alien interest, an indirect interest, an interest of ambition in... ...creep in—nominated the incumbent. In a spiritual sense, the church had all power: by refusing, first of all, to ‘license’ unqualified persons; sec- on... ... in the English church, 19 Thomas de Quincey as men more highly educated, took a direct interest in the Scottish clergy, upon general principles of l... ...cy. And a thing not less memorably strange is, that even yet the ambitious leaders were not disturbed; what they had gained was viewed by the public a... ...e court below. In the other case of Marnoch, the presbytery of Strathbogie took precisely the opposite course. So far from abetting the unjust congreg... ...one of the expostulations addressed to the Record by some of the Secession leaders. It spares us, indeed, all necessity of quoting the vile language u...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none the less true....

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity... ...Gothic. The larger part of the nave and aisles was left for the townsfolk, who came and went and heard mass there. The choir was shut off from the res... ... whose life had been, as it were, but one series of poems in action, a man who all his life long had 6 The Duchesse de Langeais lived romances instea... ...g to the small number of things which it is not lawful to utter; words are powerless to express them; like death, God, eternity, they can only be real... ...d persis- tent efforts made by men who brought great influence and unusual powers to bear upon the search had failed to find her. The suspicion arouse... ...rry out his plans. The General, nothing if not “catholic and monarchical,” took occasion to inform himself of the hours of the services, and manifeste... ...d the grey parlour walls. T umultuous as the General’s feelings were, they took something of the melancholy of the place. He grew calm in that homely ... ... tinctions, and art and science were all the rage. But the nar- row-minded leaders of a time of great intellectual progress all of them detested art a... ...ng the Frenchwomen of that day had the abil- ity to create a salon whither leaders of fashion might come to take lessons in taste and elegance. Their ...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- v... ...in most other points they are the contemporaries of our tattooed ancestors who drove their chariots on the wrong side of the Roman wall. We have passe... ...r death. T o address these demigods is quite a branch of knowledge, and he who goes to visit a high chief does well to make sure of the competence of ... ... the thing we are not so sure of. And the process of election to the chief power is a mystery. Certain provinces have in their gift certain high title... ...s is significant; it brings not only 7 Robert Louis Stevenson dignity but power, and the holder is secure, from that mo- ment, of a certain following... ...y after, relatives 11 Robert Louis Stevenson came to him upon a visit and took a fancy to his new posses- sion. “We have long been wanting a boat,” s... ...urels; and the mainspring and headpiece of this great concern, until death took him, was a certain remarkable man of the name of Theodor Weber. He was... ...to surprise and seize Mulinuu. The timely dis- covery averted all; and the leaders hastily withdrew towards the south side of the island, leaving in t... ...s were detained in Mulinuu; the commons trooped to the bush under inferior leaders. A camp was chosen near Faleula, threat- ening Mulinuu, well placed...

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...ens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to express, in the purest French then spoken ...

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... ... ...ssertation among themselves upon the disadvan- tages of hawking, they returned to their occupations; one only of the curious party, a stout, stubby, c... ...n- tages of hawking, they returned to their occupations; one only of the curious party, a stout, stubby, cheerful lad, hav- ing demanded how it was th... ... Now, on the part of the citizens of Blois this was a cul- pable piece of disrespect, for Monsieur was, after the king — nay, even, perhaps before the... ... had been tolerably busy in the course of his life. A man cannot allow the heads of a dozen of his best friends to be cut off without feeling a little... ...glorious spouse was, remarked this distraction of the page. “Well?” exclaimed she. “Well!” repeated Monsieur; “what is going on then?” M. de Saint-Rem... ...nowledgment from the princess. “You know the contents of this letter, no doubt?” said Gaston to Raoul. “Yes, monseigneur; M. le Prince at first gave m... ...ns are indifferent citizens.” “Oh!” cried La Fontaine, “if we become bad citizens, it is not through following the maxims of our master. Listen to one... ...say so? Come, Conrart, be frank.” “He says so, that is true.” “Well, that is a doctrine of Epicurus.” “Yes; but that is a little seditious, observe.” ...

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...The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...h, pooh!” replied the colonel, interrupting his sister, “I’ll name you ten who cannot and ought not to come. First,” he said, beginning to count on hi... ...me; for if there is a man in the department of the Aube whose voice is all-powerful it is assuredly you. In 1815—” “In 1815,” said the little old man,... ...owerful it is assuredly you. In 1815—” “In 1815,” said the little old man, who was wonderfully well preserved, “I did not have to speak; I simply wrot... ... he best loved roses. His hands were brown as those of a real gardener; he took care himself of his beds. Constantly in conference with his work- ing ... ...ast two years, with the life of others; of whom, indeed, he saw little. He took but one meal with the family, namely, his dinner; for he rose too earl... ...resented suddenly certain difficulties to overcome. Since the accession to power of the bourgeois class, Arcis had felt a vague desire to show itself ... ...ned the house topsy-turvy to receive the friends on whose independence the leaders of the movement counted. Simon Giguet, the native-born candidate of... ...e, called the Avenue of Sighs. Is that to the honor or to the blame of the leaders of the town? This singular ambibology is no doubt a stroke of nativ...

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... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sit... ...ances that I might produce, I will cite one. Ask of any person whatsoever, who is not previously prepared for the demand by a knowledge of perspective... ...ve, and chancing to walk near the course through which it passed, has felt powerfully, in the silence and desertion of the streets and in the stagnati... ...which inflicts the fatal blow is not more deeply imbrued in blood that his who sits and looks on: neither can he be clear of blood who has countenance... ...a hyæna,) and, coming to the Elbe, either at Gluckstadt or at Hamburgh, he took shipping for East Friezland: what 18 he could want in East Friezland ... ...he could want in East Friezland no man has ever discovered; and perhaps he took this into consideration himself; for, on reaching Embden, he resolved ... ...ight to make the least resistance; for, according to himself, irresistible power creates the very highest species of right, so that it is rebellion of... ...y original thinkers, whom mod- ern France has produced, one of the reputed leaders is M. Michelet. All these writers are of a revolutionary cast; not ... ... where ex- pressed for the suffering enemy. She forwarded to the En- glish leaders a touching invitation to unite with the French, as brothers, in a c...

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...e Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. DRACULA by Bram Stoker 1897 edition CHAPTER 1 Jonathan Harker’s Journal 3 May. B... ... splen did bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turk ish rule. 3 We left in pretty good... ... our own Ordance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well known place. I shall enter here some ... ...tinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys... ... the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for w... ... and it certainly shows marks of it. Fifty years ago a series of great fires took place, which made ter rible havoc on five separate occasions. At th... ... we threw off the Hungarian yoke, we of the Dracula blood were amongst their leaders, for our spirit would not brook that we were not free. Ah, young ... ...ance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere “modernity” cannot kill. Later: The morni... ...aw his strong hand grasp the slender neck of the fair woman and with giant’s power draw it back, the blue eyes transformed with fury, the white teeth ...

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...s A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...n better ordered, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they t... ...most mastered by this white passion of statecraft, and in nearly every one who reads and thinks you could find, I suspect, some sort of answering resp... ...se correspondence with Dionysius of Syracuse has perished; or to Confucius who travelled China in search of a Prince he might instruct, with lapses an... ...cades before him, saw only one method by which a thinking man, himself not powerful, might do the work of state building, and that was by seizing the ... ...er intensive cul- ture a singularly desolate and disorderly appearance. He took steps towards the diversion of our house drain under the influence of ... ...th suitably high-minded and sor- rowful varieties of conifer. A stonemason took one of the earlier villas with a front garden at the end of the High S... ...cature of him as an artful rabbit-witted person intent only on keeping his leadership, in spite of the vigor- ous attempts of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain t... ... be- longed was very ignorant of the traditions and qualities of our older leaders, and quite out of touch with the mass of the party. For a time Parl...

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... Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NORRIS RRIS RR... ... he herewith acknowl- edges his unmeasured obligation and gratitude to Her Who Helped the Most of All. F. N. NEW YORK June 4, 1901. 5 Frank Norris I ... ...d, while waiting, found a vague amusement in counting the number of people who filtered in single file through the wicket where the tickets were prese... ...ut nevertheless Laura did not move, and another five minutes went by. Page took advantage of the interval to tell Laura about Jadwin. He was very rich... ...ot a member of the Board of T rade, he nevertheless at very long intervals took part in a “deal” in wheat, or corn, or provisions. He believed that al... ...d drill leaped to the assault of veins of anthracite, moved by her central power. Her force turned the wheels of harvester and seeder a thousand miles... ...at the Heart of the Nation, whence inevita- bly must come its immeasurable power, its infinite, infi- nite, inexhaustible vitality. Here, of all her c... ...rld over had helped the decline. No one was willing to buy wheat. The Bear leaders were strong, unassailable. Lower and lower sagged the price; now it... ...ushels in fact, and a visible supply of less than forty millions. The Bear leaders promptly set to work to discount this news. They showed how certain...

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...PRINCE OTTO A Romance 1905 edition by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Prince Otto – A Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905 Edition) is a publication of the Penn- sylv... ... by the banks of a river in the Flowery Land; – and in particular the Scot who was then sick apparently unto death, and whom you did so much to cheer ... ...ded. It was a patch of hilly country covered with thick wood. Many streams took their beginning in the glens of Grunewald, turning mills for the inhab... ...nd duchy, among the number. On the south it marched with the comparatively powerful kingdom of Seaboard Bohemia, celebrated for its flowers and mounta... ...hich I make you freely welcome; for, sir,’ he added with a bow, ‘it is God who sends the guest.’ ‘Amen. And I most heartily thank you,’ replied Otto, ... ...omfortable promise of a wine barrel. It was homely, elegant, and quaint. A powerful youth hurried out to attend on the grey mare; and when Mr. Killian... ...uick temper, up with his whip and thrashed him, they do say, soundly. Kuno took it as best he could, but at last he broke out, and dared the Prince to... ...nds were indeed fanciful,’ returned the Baron. ‘It was conceived among the leaders that a territorial army, drawn from and returning to the people, wo...

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...ections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library....

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...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Haight Tu... ... au- thor—to make clear his facts and to bring home his ideas in all their power and beauty. Introductions and notes are only means to this end. T eac... ...for students to forget it. That teacher will have rendered a great service who has kept his pupils alive to the real aim of their studies,—to know the... ...duct in general and of child rear- ing in particular were very strict. She took Thomas out of Bath School, after three years’ excellent work there, be... ...d income. Here, we are told, “he came to be looked upon as a strange being who associ- ated with no one.” During this time he learned to take opium. H... ...s married in 1816, and soon after, his patrimony having been exhausted, he took up literary work in earnest. In 1821 he went to London to dispose of s... ...y bear witness alike to the diversity of his knowledge and the penetrative power of his intellect. The wide range of his sub- jects, however, deprives... ...il; even the sheriff cannot do that. And an extra touch of the whip to the leaders (no great matter if it grazes the sheriff) at any time guarantees y... ... dread- ful word shone by its own light; before us it went; high above our leaders’ heads it rode, and spread a golden light over the paths which we t...

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...The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION T... ...drawn from my audience in high displeasure, there remains a large majority who are loud in acknowledging the amusement which they have derived from a ... ...reatment is applied to murders. After the first tribute of sorrow to those who have perished, but, at all events, after the personal interests have be... ...ere indeed been any act of one solitary insulated indi- vidual, armed with power so appalling over the hearts of men, as that exterminating murder, by... ...s a philosopher, and threw him into a profound reverie upon the tremendous power which is laid open in a moment to any man who can reconcile himself t... ...nformation. On the Sunday se’ennight (Sun- day the octave from the event), took place the funeral of the Marrs; in the first coffin was placed Marr; i... ...rsday next but one succeeding to the Marr murder that this second atrocity took place; and many people thought at the time, that in its dramatic featu... ...were not merely contemporary with the great civil war, but actors and even leaders in its principal scenes—there is hardly one which does not exhibit ... ... tence:—the writer is addressing the reformers of 1793, amongst whom—’both leaders and followers,’ he says, ‘may together reflect—that, upon speculati...

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...Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ... with their servants and families: very likely they are right. But persons who think otherwise, and are of a lazy, or a benevolent, or a sarcastic moo... ...-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour. A black servant, who 5 Thackeray reposed on the box beside the fat coachman, uncurled his b... ...s Swartz; and the orphan little Laura Martin (who was just in round-hand), took her friend’s hand and said, look- ing up in her face wistfully, “Ameli... ...to Miss Pinkerton, Becky!” said Miss Jemima to a young lady of whom nobody took any notice, and who was coming downstairs with her own bandbox. “I sup... ..., quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascination, as any coquette in the world. Downstairs, then, they... ...herself. And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can’t resist them, if they do. Let them show ever so lit... ... Dukes, Ambassadors, artists, fiddlers, monsignori, young bears with their leaders—every rank and condition of man. His halls blazed with light and ma...