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...E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTR... ...TOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR CT FR... ...ably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any in... ... ENGLISH EDITION THE ENGLISH EDITION THE ENGLISH EDITION THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS which I propose to lay before the public in this body of selection... ...the changes here indicated, and once in America, it may be said that these writings have been in some sense published. But publication is a great idea... ...lled, and upon principles of Roman science. From mere beds of torrents and systems of ruts, they were raised univer- sally to the condition and appear...

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...so in his visits to other baths, which might have saved him the trouble of writing at such great length now; but it is perhaps a better reason in our ... ..., so that, in order to make known his desires, he was obliged to resort to writing; and as he felt his end drawing near, he begged his wife to summon ... ... Port Royal were against him; some reprehended the licen- tiousness of his writings; others their impiety, materialism, epicureanism. Even Pascal, who... ... of- ten enough defect in such a department or such a choice; and in those systems, where ignorance and malice, favouritism, intrigue, and violence go... ...you, that their publication was deferred, upon the appearance of his other writings, under the pretext (as it was alleged yon- der at Paris) that they... ...- template their strangeness and absurdity, I have begun to commit them to writing, hoping in time to make it ashamed of itself. 87 Montaigne CHAPTER...

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...ll his life long had 6 The Duchesse de Langeais lived romances instead of writing them, a man pre-eminently a Doer, was sure to be tempted by a deed ... ...o be an aristocracy when it could only be an oligarchy— two very different systems, as any man may see for himself if he gives an intelligent perusal ...

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...ts applications were conceived. But the spiritualists have begun with tables writing for them, and spirits appearing to them, and have only later star... ...s hair cut?” Precisely at twelve o’clock, when Anna was still sitting at her writing table, Part I — Chapter 34 107 finishing a letter to Dolly, she h... ...rtraits of her parents and woman friends, and the pretty knick knacks of her writing table, that he knew so well. He walked across her boudoir to the ... ...day. But though he was taking a holiday now, that is to say, he was doing no writing, he was so used to intellectual activity that he liked to put int... ...dy Alexey Alexandrovitch walked up and down twice, and stopped at an immense writing table, on which six candles had already been lighted by the valet... ...rything bearing on it, and intended in the autumn to go abroad to study land systems on the spot, in order that he might not on this question be confr... ...man thought in that direction. This was the ultimate belief on which all the systems elaborated by human thought in almost all their ramifications rest...

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...Best of Freshman Writing 1 Best of Freshman Writing Formerly Best of Four Volume 7 Student Voices A Commonwealth Colle... ...Associate Editors Liz Wright Suzanne Harper David Russell Best of Freshman Writing is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylv... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. Best of Freshman Writing 2 Best of Freshman Writing: Student Voices is a publication of the ... ...th the writers express written permission. No portion of Best of Freshman Writing may be repro- duced in any fashion without the express written perm... ...on without the express written permission of the authors. Best of Freshman Writing wishes to offer special thanks to Dr. Sandra E. Gleason, Associate ... ...e to the advantage of the financial supporters of AIDS projects. These two systems will also solve the sec- ond most important problem: a lack of prec...

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... matters worse; and at last the breach was rendered irremediable by Pope’s writing the famous character of his rival, afterwards inserted in the Prolo... ...ongest 14 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One point. After writing a “Farewell to London,” he retired, in 1715, to T wickenham, along ... ...e fell violently in love with her, and had her undoubtedly in his eye when writing “Eloisa and Abelard,” which he did at Oxford in 1716, shortly after... ...ge. His own friends, on the other hand, hailed his work with applause,—Gay writing a most graceful and el- egant poem, in ottava rima, entitled, “Mr P... ...—so far as healthy morality and Chris- tian principle are concerned—of the writings of the Poet. PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE 2 I a... ...dge only with regard to our own system, being ignorant of the relations of systems and things, ver. 17, &c. II. That Man is not to be deemed imperfect... ...f yonder argent fields above, Why Jove’s satellites are less than Jove? Of systems possible, if ’tis confess’d That Wisdom infinite must form the best... ... with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl’d, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. ... ...n some editions— Give each a system, all must be at strife; What different systems for a man and wife? After VER. 172, in the MS.— Say, what rewards t...

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...knowledging benefits received from the former Min- ister. At Paris men are systems, whereas in the provinces sys- tems are identified with men; men, m... ...is, “it is time to send him to the King. I will spend to-morrow morning in writing to our kins- men.” “I have some acquaintance with the Ducs de Navar... ...ssed to divers mighty personages of the day; but he had spent the night in writing to an old friend of his, one of the oldest established notaries of ... ...el went straight to Josephin. Josephin unlocked the young Count’s desk and writing-table. Very luckily, the no- tary found letters which might be usef...

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...ich had always previously, even in the growth of races, empires, planetary systems, and worlds, gone so:— And even in some cases so:— And he was expla... ...The Food of the Gods the present time there is a baby—” “Shaky up and down writing. Old gentleman apparently,” said Redwood. “But it’s odd a baby—” He... ...iage, and all the essential equip- ment dated from then, the large complex writing-desk, the rotating chair, the easy chair at the fire, the rotating ... ...gue and lie down upon the little bed they had prepared for him between his writing-desk and the sinking fire in the fireplace under the great hog’s sk...

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...escribed as agricolae or yeomen, and both marksmen, (that is, incapable of writing, and therefore subscribing by means of marks,) for the payment of f... ..., who made a trade of insulting the memories of deceased authors by forged writings, that he was “among the new terrors of death.” But in the gravest ... ... TE 12. Thomas Campbell, the poet, in his eloquent Remarks on the Life and Writings of William Shakspeare, prefixed to a popular edition of the poet’s... ...rank in England, who only were ever asked in church, until the new-fangled systems of mar- riage came up within the last ten or fifteen years, during ... ...n ear and memory the name Hamnet by the dramatic name of Ham- let, that in writing his will, he actually mis-spells the name of his friend Sadler, and... ...arvey, at a time when any exaggeration was open to an easy refutation, and writing in a spirit most likely to provoke it, does not scruple to say, wit...

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... ent System of Thought; but properly the summation of sev- eral successive systems. All this of the old Norse Belief which is flung out for us, in one... ...ble. If Odin brought Letters among his people, he might work magic enough! Writing by Runes has some air of being original among the Norsemen: not a P... ...ool-learning; of the thing we call school-learning none at all. The art of writing was but just introduced into Arabia; it seems to be the true opinio... ...indeed as a book at all; and not a bewildered rhapsody; written, so far as writing goes, as badly as almost any book ever was! So much for national di... ...s at all;—still more, of living in a mere element of conscious deceit, and writing this Koran as a forger and jug- gler would have done! Every candid ... ...n the long space that now intervenes. It is five centuries since he ceased writing and living here. After all com- mentaries, the Book itself is mainl... ... rotting on the high- way but is indissoluble portion of solar and stellar systems; no thought, word or act of man but has sprung withal out of all me... ...be believed to be there. So with all beliefs whatsoever in this world,—all Systems of Belief, and Sys- tems of Practice that spring from these. If we ...

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...on between myself and the Dean, lies one reason which prompted the present writing. A sec- ond purpose of this paper is, to make the reader acquainted... ...(with Dr. Johnson’s leave) is the feeblest and least interesting of Pope’s writings, being substantially a mere versification, like a met- rical multi... ...rn approaches, had gone farther even than the opera. Addison himself, when writing a tragedy, made this viola- tion (as he would have said) of nature,... ...paper before me, it is impossible that I should save myself any la- bor of writing. The words at any rate I must invent afresh: and, as to the idea, y... ... a churlish man as, by insisting on a new one, in effect to insist upon my writing a false one. In the following paragraph, therefore, I give the subs... ... comets (according to the theory of some speculators)—to connect different systems together. No doubt there is much truth in this: a few Leibnitzes in...

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... and particularly from her teeth, which seemed to shine like pearls between her red coral lips. Her every movement seemed the accent of a sunny nature... ...them; you know that Madame’s bell can be heard at the bridge of Blois, and that consequently I shall hear it when my services are required by Madame. ... ... know the contents of this letter, no doubt?” said Gaston to Raoul. “Yes, monseigneur; M. le Prince at first gave me the message verbally, but upon re... ...then, that his majesty —” “As first minister, it belongs to the duties of our charge to know everything. And his majesty prays and implores, I presume... ... Well, monsieur, this is the whole affair.” “I am all attention, Mousqueton.” “On Wednesday —” “The day of the rustic pleasures?” “Y es — a letter arr... ... has fortified this paltry little place in this manner?” Porthos drew himself up proudly: “Did not I tell you who?” “No.” “Do you not suspect?” “No; a...

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...stle for the dollar. To do that is to follow the line of least resistance in writing about America: you have only to copy what all the other traveller... ... in the trenches will in the long run do this more surely than any amount of writing, it may nevertheless be an advantage to the newcomer to arrive wi... ...lative percentage of happy marriages in the countries where different social systems prevail. Until such a census can be taken, it is, 46 VI — THE NE...

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...gain, the work bears an interesting relation to Gogol himself. A romantic, writing of realities, he was appalled at the commonplaces of life, at findi... ...hen the French language, and then the playing of pianos—so diverse are the systems in force! None the less, I may remark that Madame Manilov— But let ... ...our chairs, a settee, and a table—the latter of which bore a few sheets of writing-paper and the book of which I have before had occasion to speak. Bu... ...d spent the night, in order to procure from his dispatch-box the necessary writing-paper. The room had now been set in order, the sumptuous feather be... ... in Moscow?” “Yes—in Moscow,” replied Chichikov without interrupt- ing his writing. “I thought so. One can get good things there. Three years ago my s... ...urnames. Indeed, frequently, on hearing the latter, he had to pause before writing them down. Especially did he halt before a certain “Peter Saveliev ... ...rescribe diets and a hunger cure as though what suits their flaccid German systems will agree with a Rus- sian stomach! Such devices are no good at al...

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... held what was called the Pythagorean philosophy. This was one of the many systems framed by the great men of heathenism, when by the feeble light of ... ... set him free, and created him a Roman citizen. Then the Archdeacon read a writing of manumission. ‘Whatever is done according to the Roman law is irr... ...d first of September, 1666; but on the 20th of November, Mr. Mompesson was writing to his uncle, in the lull after the storm. ‘The condition of this p...

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...................................... ........................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING MACHINES ............................................................. ... and subscribe right now—tomorrow it maybe too late.” He was flying to the writing desk, but Aleck stopped him and put him back in his chair. She said... ...ong drawn procession of formidable names it was! Starting with the Railway Systems, Steamer Lines, Standard Oil, Ocean Cables, Diluted Telegraph, and ... ...again; she had risked their whole fortune in a purchase of all the railway systems and coal and steel companies in the country on a margin, and she wa... ...sation—is one of the solemnest curiosities of modern life. Yesterday I was writing a deep article on a sublime philo sophical subject while such a co... ...h, anyway. Pause. What? Pause. Oh, not in the least—go right on. He’s here writing—it doesn’t bother him. Pause. Very well, I’ll come if I can. ( Asi... ...t not even you have deserved: the wanton insult of Old Age.” *** THE FIRST WRITING MACHINES From My Unpublished Autobiography SOME DAYS AGO a corres...

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...lible gust and unerring relish of what was genuinely Johnsonian in speech, writing, or action; and his own account leads to the infer- ence that he di... ...very few of his friends so accurate as that I could venture to put down in writing what they told me as his sayings.’ The faithfulness of his por- tra... ...d. But although he at different times, in a desultory manner, committed to writing many particulars of the progress of his mind and fortunes, he never... ...oy- ing his friendship for upwards of twenty years; as I had the scheme of writing his life constantly in view; as he was well apprised of this circum... ...mpare myself with some great names who have gone before me in this kind of writing. Instead of melting down my materials into one mass, and constantly... ... from Scotland, who affected to be a savage, and railed at all established systems. Johnson. ‘There is nothing surprizing in this, Sir. He wants to ma... ...aced, than she did of the difference between the Copernican and Ptolemaick systems.’ Mrs. Knowles. ‘She had the New Testament before her.’ Johnson. ‘M...

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...hey won’t try to understand our people. Their laws, and their rules, their systems are forced on a race of an opposite temper, who would get on well e... ... know the family. “Deeds not words” would serve for their motto. She hates writing, and doesn’t much love talking. Pat ‘ll lengthen her sentences for ... ...k leaned to her. ‘But if the idea in the mind of the person supposed to be writing the letter is accurately ex- pressed? Does it matter, if we call it... ...what I felt.’ ‘But it might be like discharging a bullet.’ ‘How?’ ‘If your writing in that way wounded the receiver.’ ‘Of course I should endeavour no... ... whole year of free ser- vice? Reflect on what you are undertaking.’ ‘It’s writing and accounts, no worse?’ ‘Writing and accounts all day, and music i... ...iage-feast; but avaunt new-fangled theories and howlings: old tunes, tried systems, for us, my worthy friends. Roundness admiring the growth of its gl... ...r not being the men we were. But after all, the main secret was his art of writing round English, instead of laborious Latinised periods: and the se- ...

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...ng too much in my luck, in the present instance I was engaged in a task of writing upon some points of business which could not admit of further delay... ... century, 41 Thomas de Quincey and the shattering everywhere given to old systems by the French Revolution, together with the universal energy of min... ...to it than a philosopher, or a splendid girl who showed herself capable of writing a very fair 8vo, to say nothing of her de- capitating in battle sev... ...ugh all the world had been angry, when the shrieks and yells of ex- piring systems began to reverberate all the way from the belt of Orion; and positi... ...ive him: motion subjec- tive is in collusion with motion objective; duplex systems are in collusion with fraudulent stars, having no real partner- shi... ... suddenly as thus they tilted over abysmal worlds, a mighty cry arose—that systems more mysterious, that worlds more billowy,—other heights, and other... ...in what degree he finds tolerable what heretofore was not so—the effort of writing letters, or transacting business, or undertaking a journey, or over... ...xclusively practical. But, whatever may be the im- mediate fortunes of his writings, no man of enlightened cu- riosity will regard the author himself ... ...even he usually went to his lecture-room, and from that he returned to his writing-table. Precisely at three quarters be- fore one he rose from his ch...

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...Thomas Carlyle lor, winged raggedness, present, as in legible hieroglyphic writing, their Petition of Grievances. The Chateau gates have to be shut; b... ...It is an unbelieving people; which has suppositions, hypotheses, and froth-systems of victorious Analysis; and for belief this 37 Thomas Carlyle main... ... a World round him, as victorious Analysis, with her Physiologies, Nervous-systems, Physic and Metaphysic, will never com- pletely name, to say nothin... ...element at Berlin; compiling Prussian Monarchies, Pamphlets On Cagliostro; writing, with pay, but not with honourable recognition, innumerable Des- pa... ...hat they call ‘register’ them! Such right of registering, properly of mere writing down, the Parlement has got by old wont; and, though but a Law-Cour... ...tick to Protests, to well-redacted ‘Cahiers of grievances, ’ and satirical writings and speeches. Such is partially their course in Provence; whither ... ... de Breze, Supreme Usher, Master of Ceremonies, or whatever his title was, writing about this time on some ceremonial matter, sees no harm in winding ...

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...low faces, squalor, winged raggedness, present, as in legible hieroglyphic writing, their Petition of Grievances. The Chateau gates have to be shut; b... ... World round him, as victorious Analysis, with her Physiologies, Ner- vous-systems, Physic and Metaphysic, will never completely name, to say nothing ... ...element at Berlin; compiling Prussian Monarchies, Pamphlets On Cagliostro; writing, with pay, but not with honourable recognition, innu- merable Despa... ...hat they call ‘register’ them! Such right of registering, properly of mere writing down, the Parlement has got by old wont; and, though but a Law-Cour... ...ick to Protests, to well-redacted ‘Cahiers of griev- ances,’ and satirical writings and speeches. Such is partially their course in Provence; whither ... ...e Breze, Supreme Usher, Master of Ceremo- nies, or whatever his title was, writing about this time on some ceremonial matter, sees no harm in winding ...

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...hout oil to Francis Goodchild’s stomach, produced an agreeable change in the systems of both; soothing Mr. Idle’s pain, which was sharp before, and sw... ...hed out his hand softly, opened the bag, and groped in it for his travelling writing case, in which he knew that there was a small store of matches. W... ... write it at once. Hearing this, Arthur volunteered the loan of a travelling writing case, which, he said, he had with him; and, bringing it to the be... ...clapped to again without a word of explanation. They were reading, they were writing, they were eating, they were drinking, they were talking, they we... ...thing wrong with those six old men.’ Night had come again, and they had been writing for two or three hours: writing, in short, a portion of the lazy ... ... of the lazy notes from which these lazy sheets are taken. They had left off writing, and glasses were on the table be tween them. The house was clos...

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...EF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE IN THE LATTER HALF OF 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a “War of Ideas.” A phrase, “The War to end War,”... ...was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the arma... ...ialism, and they denounced the “Krupp-Kaiser” al- liance. But against such writing and such thought we had to count, in those days, great and powerful... ...in this connection. It would be a dismaying thing to realize that one were writing 5 H.G. Wells anything here which was not the possible thought of g... ...ells tially religious end of peace on earth. And also there must be German writings upon this same topic. I mention these di- verse sources not in ord... ... political complications of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. T wo systems of monarchies, the Bourbon system and the German, then ruled Europe...

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...xtent they are our superiors. On the other hand, they can’t learn reading, writing, etc., nor any of our fine and high things, and there we have a lar... ...eat stress of mind when I first saw him, but a few hours later I found him writing steadily. “I am setting it down,” he said, “everything. It is a rel... ... intervals during that day and the next I looked in, and usually found him writing. Then on the evening of the 26th, when he knew that Jean had been l... ...d it was forever, we never sus pecting it. She lies there, and I sit here—writing, busying myself, to keep my heart from breaking. How dazzlingly the... ...wn home. “Miss Jean is dead !” It is true. Jean is dead. A month ago I was writing bubbling and hilarious articles for magazines yet to appear, and no... ...ngs, the wreck of dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of gov ernment; and their descendants have been by to hear of it a... ...ut of ten he will get just the proper 31. Let me try to illustrate the two systems in a simple and homely way calculated to bring the idea within the ... ...bt if I could do it myself. We always get at second hand our notions about systems of government; and high tariff and low tariff; and prohibition and ...

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... the Philosophic Class: nevertheless, what reader expects that, with all our writing and reporting, Teufelsdr¨ ockh could be brought home to him, till... ...p deepest while fancying our selves most awake! Which of your Philosophical Systems is other than a dream theorem; a net quotient, confidently given ... ...ath, the worst death, a spiritual. What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words. High Air castles are cunningly buil... ...her he is laughing in his sleeve at these Autobiographical times of ours, or writing from the abundance of his own fond ineptitude. For he continues: ... ...it was my favorite employment to read character in speculation, and from the Writing to construe the Writer. A certain groundplan of Human Nature and ... ...t countries, for some eighteenpence a day; but for Fantasy planets and solar systems will not suffice. Witness your Pyrrhus con quering the world, yet... ...one of three things which he can next do: Establish himself in Bedlam; begin writing Satanic Poetry; or blow out his brains. In the progress towards a... ...ten, on the insensible Earth, with his shoe soles only; and also survive the writing thereof! 104 SARTOR RESARTUS CHAPTER VII THE EVERLASTING NO U ND... ...ts new produce of leaves (Commentaries, Deductions, Philosophical, Political Systems; or were it only Sermons, Pamphlets, Journalistic Essays), every ...

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...inking myself into a mood that would hurt my feelings; for those pieces of writing, whatever may be the comment on their display, ap- pertain to the c... ...the absence of the material fact, prominent in the case of other men whose writing counts, (for good or evil)—had it not been, I say, expressive of a ... ...red so much in his lifetime. For he, too, was sensitive. Every page of his writing bears its testimony to the fatal absence of callousness in the man.... ...e. His impressionism of phrase went really deeper than the surface. In his writing he was very sure of his effects. I don’t think he was ever in doubt... ...e found so diffi- cult to define, is by no means noisy. As a mere piece of writing it may be described as being breathless itself and taking the reade... ...ciency of Europe, the inferiority of minds, of military and administrative systems, stood exposed with pitiless vividness. And there is but little cou... ...tion of general ideas. They died neither for de- mocracy, nor leagues, nor systems, nor yet for ab- stract justice, which is an unfathomable mystery. ...

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... there goes a hum of metaphysical divinity; and the whole of two divergent systems is summed up, not merely speciously, in the two first questions of ... ...e was even kind enough to remark (more than once) while in the very act of writing the document above referred to, that he did not know my face. Indee... ... Vain kindness, vain efforts. He could only sit in a still growing horror, writing nothing, ignorant of all, his mind filled with a single memory of t... ...tic dialogues, in which I played many parts; and often exercised myself in writing down conversations from memory. This was all excellent, no doubt; s... ...t, oppressed us with a kind of terror. When not abroad, he sat much alone, writing ser- mons or letters to his scattered family in a dark and cold roo... ... is no longer by words, but by the instancing of whole biographies, epics, systems of philosophy, and epochs of history, in bulk. That which is unders... ...ation to Burke. He cautioned me, with entire gravity, to be punctilious in writing English; never to forget that I was a Scotchman, that English was a...