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...s MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES...................................................................................................

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...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ....................................... 194 MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. II. .......................................................................... ...ng agitations and the un- conquerable impatience of my nervous malady. 2. “War.”** —In this paper, from having faultily adjusted its proportions in th... ... Suppose the case, therefore, that Kate’s memoirs had been thrown upon the world with no vouchers for their authen- ticity beyond such internal presum... ...ency to lawless and gigantesque ideals of adventur- ous life; under which, united with the duelling code of Eu- rope, many things would become trivial... ...(or then was) more thickly sown with aristocratic families than any in the kingdom. Many elegant and pretty women there naturally were in these partie... ...bought, to order, by one day’s common subscription of Liverpool or Glasgow merchants, students very rarely indeed have admission to its free use. What... ...ing and change of scene, as we children of modern civilization possess. No ships had then been fitted up for passengers, nor public carriages establis...