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...Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...and the quarrel which led to it, have never been cor- rectly stated in any history of the period in which it took 13 Sir Walter Scott place, I am ind... ...uence of your having, in the second series of your admirable T ales on the History of Scot- land, adopted Wishart’s version of the transaction, and be... ...ory of my ancestor, before it shall come to be consid- ered as a matter of History. That he was a man of violent passions and singular temper, I do no... ...ant’s bosom against this cruel disappointment. “He would go,” he said, “to Canada to his kinsfolk, where they had named a Transatlantic valley after t... ...ination, which, probably from the cir- cumstances preceding his birth, was constitutionally de- ranged, with all the wild and terrible superstitions s... ...rful to see a mind, naturally generous and affectionate, afflicted by this constitutional malady.” As she spoke in a low and confidential tone, Lord M...

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...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...BLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE ...................... 54 SCHLOSSER’S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE .... ................................................ 137 FALSIFICATION OF ENGLISH HISTORY ...................................................................... ...g to maturity that were not likely to be met by commensu- rate sales. Yet, constitutionally, he was a sanguine hoper. At this time he was a stout, fre... ...upon their voices, previously so loud. The tragic drama read aloud its own history, and the succession of its several steps—few and summary. The murde... ... and Calvin as he did ridicule them, Swift could not be thought other than constitutionally incapable of religion. Even a Pagan philosopher, if made t... ...copal throne? This argues, beyond a doubt, that Swift was in that state of constitutional irreligion, irreligion from a vulgar temperament, which im- ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to th...

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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...f more, if not of profounder, study than at any former pe riod of English history, it may be useful that there should be some record of an education ... ... and was 4 Autobiography the eldest son of James Mill, the author of the History of British India . My father, the son of a petty tradesman and (I b... ...ut he, with these bur dens on him, planned, commenced, and completed, the History of India ; and this in the course of about ten years, a shorter tim... ...y felt in the mere wars and conquests of the Romans. I dis cussed all the constitutional points as they arose: though quite ignorant of Niebuhr’s res... ...n the trying position of sole teacher, and add to this that his temper was constitutionally irritable, it is impossible not to feel true pity for a fa... ...at variance with their principles, such as the Irish Coercion Bill, or the Canada Coercion in 1837, they came forward manfully, and braved any amount ...

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