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...MERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..................................................................................... 6 CHAPTER I: THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD ................................................................ 16 CHAPTER II: IN...

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...L ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL.... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...L ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM- EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL... ..., there was another act open to the congregation which was not so. For the English reader must now understand, that over and above the passive and les... ... then, that a ‘call’ should sink into a pure fiction of ceremony, like the English conge-d’elire addressed to a dean and chapter, calling on them to e... ...9—did much to unsettle the religious tone of public morals. Historians and satirists ascribe a large effect in this change to the personal influence o...

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...with applause of the boys and girls of both ages in this land; and all the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our nationa... ...was pencilling upon letters perused. ‘Skepsey’s craze: regeneration of the English race by box- ing—nucleus of a national army?’ ‘To face an enemy at ... ...t be a privilege to dine with him—to know him. I know what he has done for English Commerce, and to build a colossal fortune: genius, as I said: and h... ...it in such a way, then Mr. Durance must be right when he called the social English the most sheepy of sheep:— and Nesta could not consent to the cruel... ...c severity in ethics is easily overlooked by the enthusiast for things old English. She was consciously ahead of them in the knowledge that her father... ...is unclean- ness. And when Strength is not exercising, you are sure to see Satirists jump on his back. Dozens, foreign and domes- tic, are on the back... ...tany of sinfulness. He was near a truth; and he had the heat of it on him. Satirists in their fervours might be near it to grasp it, if they could be ...

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...casined 9 Melville squaws; Northern speculators and Eastern philosophers; English, Irish, German, Scotch, Danes; Santa Fé traders in striped blankets... ...eak from fifteen years’ experience; five and thirty boys; American, Irish, English, German, African, Mulatto; not to speak of that China boy sent me b... ..., but who, nevertheless, would seem Entitled to the Esteem of that Eminent English Moralist who said He Liked a Good Hater “COMING TO MENTION the man ... ...to the worthy bridge not to do so. Man is a noble fellow, and in an age of satirists, I am not displeased to find one who has confidence in him, and b... ...tic. Come, why did you warn me? Put it, I beseech, in few words, and those English.” “I warned you against him because he is suspected for what on the...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...“the most original of geniuses in French literature, the foremost of prose satirists; inexhaustible in details of manners and customs, a word- painter... ...ce then it has passed through many editions, finally receiving an adequate English translation at the hands of Bayle St. John, who has been careful to... ...land, then a refugee in France, had advised the King to give battle to the English fleet. Joined to that of Holland it was very superior to the sea fo... ... He did so. Many of his ships were burnt, and the vic- tory was won by the English. A courier entrusted with this sad intelligence was despatched to t... ...even taken, all richly freighted. This cam- 34 Saint-Simon paign cost the English and Dutch dear. It is believed their loss was more than thirty mill...

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...g student publication project to bring classi cal works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and ... ... entreaties, to his antagonist to desist from pursuing her blows; in plain English, he only begged her with the utmost earnestness to hear him; but be... ...ough I say it, is frequented by gentry of the best quality, both Irish and English. I defy anybody to say black is my eye, for that matter. And, as I ... ...en I am fighting with him! To bear malice is more like a Frenchman than an Englishman.” He then proposed a libation as a necessary part of the cerem... ... thieves and ruffians are awake, and honest watchmen fast asleep; in plain English, it was now midnight; and the company at the inn, as well those who... ...prevails among the vulgar, who, borrowing their opinion from some ignorant satirists, have affixed the char acter of lewdness to these times. On the ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... corner of some old country-house library. You are led to suppose that the English aristocracy of 1820 did dance and caper in that way, and box and dr... ...hem there were in the wild, coarse, reckless, ribald, generous book of old English humor! How savage the satire was—how fierce the assault— what garba... ... confiding smiles of our children. Among the vet- erans, the old pictorial satirists, we have mentioned the famous name of one humorous designer who i... ...indly, pure-minded artist, humorist, moralist! It was he first who brought English pictorial humor and children acquainted. Our young people and their... ...ackeray comed amongst his new friends the great; though, like the good old English gentleman of the song, he does not forget the small. He pats the he...

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...smond and The Newcomes, he gave a name eminent, sin- gular, and beloved to English fiction. Charges of cynicism are common against all satirists, Thac... ...and beloved to English fiction. Charges of cynicism are common against all satirists, Thackeray had to bear with them. The social world he looked at d... ... plain good soul to whom he was affectionate in the unhysterical way of an English father patting a son on the head. He described his world as an accu... ...d is closing its first fytte for the singer, and with such result as those Englishmen who have some knowledge of their fellows foresaw. There are suff... ...is Egyptian policy was from step to step a mis- reading of the will of the English people. He went forth on this campaign, with the finger of Egypt no... ...tively lev- elled against him a second time. Nevertheless he does read his English; he has, too, the fatal tendency to the bringing forth of Bills in ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ions, of course: my father was not a man to underrate the bearing of Latin satirists or Greek dra- matists on the attainment of an aristocratic positi... ...y reverse of my own. I shall call him Charles Meunier; his real surname—an English one, for he was of English extraction—having since become celebrate... ...to select a musical box, and other purchases rigorously demanded of a rich English- man visiting Geneva. He was one of the most punctual of men and ba...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...act, men do derive from social life much more convenience than injury. Let satirists then laugh their fill at hu- man affairs, let theologians rail, a...