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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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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...r of mine, that paper I should wish to cancel. So that, upon the whole, my new and revised edition is likely to differ by very consid- erable changes ... ...at quadrata rotundis,) it is my purpose to enlarge this edition by as many new papers as I find available for such a station. These I am anxious to pu... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ...ith The Mount V ernon Hotel at Cape May, N. J., (meant, I suppose, for New Jersey,) which advertises itself in the “New York Herald,” of April 12, 185... ...d this Jesuitical guide,—as if it had been some new Pompeii, some Luxor or Palmyra, that he had unexpectedly lit upon amongst the undiscovered parts o...

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...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...makes great cities, and commerce has refused to back the general’s choice. New York and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great a... ...e distance, and you will think that you approach the ruins of some western Palmyra. If you are a sportsman, you will desire to shoot snipe within sigh... ... by one might, 7 Trollope perhaps, have done for the skeleton sketch of a new city. Less than half that would contain much more than the present popu... ...e names of the respective States. At the Capitol, Pennsylvania Avenue, New Jersey Avenue, Delaware Avenue, and Maryland Av- enue converge. They come f... ...to one journeying through the desert places of the city gives that idea of Palmyra which I have before mentioned. Nevertheless, and in spite of all th... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ... the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and that at Ciudad Rodrig... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ... of berths in the ship’s cabin in which the wounded were to be conveyed to New York. Still thrilling with the suffering of being carried from the fiel... ...a lady of his own choice, and gives the veiled Alcestis back to him as the new bride. Later Greeks tried to explain the story by saying that Alcestis ... ...ion worthy to be recorded with that of Eustache de St. Pierre. The City of Palmyra, in Tennessee, one of the Southern States of America, had been occu... ...he imagination than any other. Listen to a story of the King’s birthday in Jersey ‘sixty years since’—in 1804, when that 4th of June that Eton boys de...

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...ed about the lattice side-work and the iron roof of the railway-line, hung from invisible staging under the bellies of the girders, clus- tered round ... ...contractors by the half-hundred—fitters and riv- eters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white and half-caste subo... ...nd so brought to ruin at least half an acre of calculations—and Hitchcock, new to disappointment, buried his head in his arms and wept; the heart-brea... ... who had saved the girder of Number Seven pier from de- struction when the new wire rope jammed in the eye of the crane, and the huge plate tilted in ... ...he big gong had brought the dinghy back at racing speed, and Peroo and his people were stripped to the waist, working for the honour and credit which ... ...pling grow as fat as myself. And I, who am Ganesh of Good Luck, I bless my peoples.” “They have changed the face of the land-which is my land. They ha... ... them than to the untravelled Englishman—the flat, red India of palm-tree, palmyra-palm, and rice—the India of the picture-books, of “Little Harry and... ...es. They’ll be askin’ me to haul a vestibuled next!” “They made you in New Jersey, didn’t they?” said Poney. “Thought so. Commuters and truck-wagons a... ... a curious, husky voice from a corner. “Who’s that?” 007 whispered to the Jersey commuter. “Compound-experiment-N.G. She’s bin switchin’ in the B. & ...

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...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ...ng they will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERIC... ...ountered a ferocious dog that frightened the horses and made them run. The new animal kicked at every jump he made. I got the horses stopped, however,... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ... rebels at a point on the Hannibal and St. Joe Railroad some miles west of Palmyra, in Missouri, and I was ordered to proceed with all dispatch to the... ...ned to think both sides got frightened and ran away. I took my regiment to Palmyra and remained there for a few days, until relieved by the 19th Illin... ...n to the army about Richmond. After visiting Baltimore and Burlington, New Jersey, I arrived at City Point on the 19th. On the way out to Harper’s Fer...

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......................................................................... 301 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ......................................................................... 315 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ... all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, w... ...n riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from indi- vidual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our ... ...ormation in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a v... ...nd decorum of their dance. Thus of the genius of 12 Essays one remarkable people we have a fourfold representa- tion: and to the senses what more unl... ... from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things. In Thebes, in Palmyra, his will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they. He carr... ...s to die upon, nor the Syrian sunshine. He lies very well where he is. The Jerseys were handsome ground enough for Washington to tread, and London str...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ... necessities of public business coming back in a torrent upon the official people after this momentary interruption, forbade them to indulge any furth... ...d has at the moment of restoration literally the force and liveliness of a new birth—the very same pang, and no whit feebler, as that which belonged t... ...o sudden life on our first awaking, and is to all in- tents and purposes a new and not an old affliction—one which brings with it the old original sho... ...ordingly, in a few weeks after this, whilst Lord Lindsay had gone to visit Palmyra, Mr. Ramsay died at Damascus. This was a case exactly corresponding... ... injury, in a more aggravated shape, is perpe- trated from time to time by Jersey upon ourselves, and would, upon a larger scale, right itself by war.... ... a larger scale, right itself by war. Convicts are costly to maintain; and Jersey, whose national revenue is limited, be- ing too well aware of this, ...

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...eConcordandMerrimackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and h... ...imackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and headlands appear... ... pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies, Here, in pine houses, built of new fallen trees, Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell.” ... ...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...rass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concor... ...hich causeth their meadows to lie much covered with water, the which these people, together with their neighbor town, have several times essayed to cu... ...of the homesteads of the Huguenots, on Staten Island, off the coast of New Jersey. The hills in the interior of this island, though comparatively low,... ..., months, and years away; From hoary rock and aged tree, From proud Palmyra’s mouldering walls, From Teneriffe, towering o’er the sea, F...