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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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... By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publicati... ...te Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, t... ... under the mixed hats and turbans of men whose past was untraceable to any European eye, it is well known that the navy (especially, in time of war, t... ...been growing in bulk by the incorporation of juvenile essays (such as his ‘European Settlements,’ his ‘Essay on the Sublime,’ on ‘Lord Bolingbroke,’ &... ...mmercial body, none receive an elabo- rate, and what is meant by a liberal education, except those standing by their connections in the richest classe... ...n- formed, not having had the benefits when young of a regu- lar classical education, find (upon any accident bringing up such subjects) a deficiency ... ...e upon a jessamine flower. His countenance was striking, and expressed the union of benignity with philosophic habits of thought. In such health had h...