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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.....................

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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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...roduction: Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason....

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more i...

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...the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch h...

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...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...es dying in bed, making exemplary ends and sound- ing speeches; and polite history, more servile than their instru- ments, embalming them! At last, Jo... ...sense of injury in his heart, and no more real knowledge of the beneficent history of the New Testament than if he had been bred among idolaters. Ther... ... to be waiting for some adventurous Belzoni to dig it out and discover its history; passing silent warehouses and wharves, and here and there a narrow... ...d with the debt- ors (who received them with open arms), except at certain constitutional moments when somebody came from some Of- fice, to go through... ...foreigner had a knife about him; in the second, they held it to be a sound constitutional national axiom that he ought to go home to his own country. ... ...mus did wisely to strengthen himself, and that the sole 575 Little Dorrit constitutional purpose of all places within the gift of Decimus, was, that ...

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...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the strug...

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...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...oo much to say that Mrs. Mountstuart’s little word fetched an epoch of our history to colour the evening of his arrival at man’s estate. He was all th... ... Mr. Whitford, and the consequence is you are ig- norant of your country’s history.” Miss Middleton rebuked him, enjoying his wriggle between a percep... ...craves nothing save that you continue in being—her sun: which is your firm constitutional endeav- our: and thus you have a most exact alliance; she su... ...for the drum. Dr. Middleton was tongue-tied there. Sir Willoughby gave the history of his wine in heads of chapters; whence it came to the family orig... ...er diem prognosticates disintegration, with its accompanying recklessness. Constitutionally , let me add, I bear three. I speak for posterity.” During... ...ng her upon a dejected droop of her eyelashes. “I am, I think,” said she, “constitutionally melancholy.” He murmured to her: “I believe in the existen...

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...gnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ildren’s lessons and other occupations left her free to indulge in it. The history of the travels, and the account of the discovery, were given and he... ...the first time you have tried such an examination, and boys never do learn history.” “Nor anything else in this happy town,” was the answer, accompani... ...Mr. Ogilvie had never heard them. Luckily the reading had just come to the history of the “Do as You Likes,” and the interview between the last of the... ...nd then to the depot, and only joined again after the regiment had gone to Canada, when the marriage had taken place. I may have heard the name of Mrs... ... skill; and you know an illness from a misadven- ture is not like anything constitutional.” “No; but Armine is always delicate, and my aunt has had to...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How did he get it? ?I can never bring myself to believe it, John,? said Mary Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of...

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...pe A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. 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... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...archdeacon had made a splendid matri- monial alliance—so splendid that its history was at the time known to all the aristocracy of the county, and had... ...hrow himself away, he had better go and live in the south of France, or in Canada, or where he pleases. He shan’t come here.’ ‘I hope he won’t marry t... ...e right with him, that he would remember, before it was too late, the true history of that unhappy piece of paper, and that he was rising above that h... ...ss Anne Prettyman was supposed to be specially efficient in teaching Roman history to her pupils, although she was so manifestly ignorant of the cours... ...he world beyond Barsetshire was open to him. He would take her with him to Canada, to New Zealand, or to some other far-away country , and there begin... ...time, now; it don’t. And it ain’t what I drink, nor it ain’t what I eat.’ ‘Constitutional, I suppose?’ said T oogood. ‘Look here, sir’; and Stringer s...