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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...om a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;’ at the same time proving the sincerity of their praise by one hesi- tating ... ... of exertion is very lim- ited, and is soon filled by regular professional people, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a fire which i... ...ain rob her mistress of a night’s rest. And she well knew that, with three people all 19 Thomas de Quincey anxiously awaiting her return, and by this... ...V oltaire selected those who were still called great, and their respective schools.’ Pope’s men, it seems, never had 83 Thomas de Quincey been famous... ...ut madame was a poor sneaking fellow, fit only for the usher of a boarding-school. All this, however, argues Schlosser’s two-fold ignorance—first, of ... ...’—and, finally, let it not be forgotten, that Samuel Clarke Burnet, of the Charterhouse, and Sir Isaac Newton, did not wholly escape tasting the knout... ...om- mercial class of readers: amongst the aristocracy all are thor- oughly educated, excepting those who go at an early age into the army; of the comm...

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Man and Superman a Comedy and a Philosophy

By: George Bernard Shaw

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...s by criticisms which the traditions of the paper do not allow you to sign at the end, but which you take care to sign with the most extravagant flour... ...tient, consistent, apologetic, laborious person, with the temperament of a schoolmaster and the pursuits of a vestryman. No doubt that literary knack ... ...it. But my con- science is the genuine pulpit article: it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on mak... ...love and must accordingly marry or perish at the end of the play, or about people whose relations with one another have been complicated by the marria... ... and com- promising to his newly acknowledged position as the founder of a school. Instead of pretending to read Ovid he does actu- ally read Schopenh... ... brimming with crude vitality, who are neither intelligent nor politically educated enough to be Socialists. So do not misunderstand me in the other d... ... medieval poesy than Scribe after Ibsen. As I sat watching Everyman at the Charterhouse, I said to myself Why not Everywoman? Ann was the result: ever... ...y, you observe. Y ou would tell me to draw it mild, But this chap has been educated. What’s more, he knows that we haven’t. What was that board school...

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