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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...book to me; he reads in the afternoons, maybe when the warm sun is in our western windows, maybe at the pergola, if it is pleasant. Sometimes, when ... ...indow faced the street. You remember that street, of course. Lodi Street. Western exposure. Hot in summer. Dusty. But my apartment was on the fourth ... ...’s tour. How vividly I remember that smoky inn—the crowd, the torches. In Chester, my lines once more escaped me: utterly perturbed, I gaped at the ... ...ce, second floor, a narrow room with a pair of elegant brass spittoons, a Pennsylvania wood burning stove. High on the wall, above my desk, hung an ... ...pt at it, learning, unlearning. For every stick of wood we burned in that Pennsylvania stove we had an ardent opinion. Billy and I earned about $3,...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..............

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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...TION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ...ain of inspired truth every where sealed up; but a whisper ran through the western nations of Europe that the work of Tho- mas à Kempis contained some... ...h regarded my sister’s memory, in one hour I received a new heart. Once in Westmoreland I saw a case resembling it. I saw a ewe suddenly put off and a... ...xact title,) a large folio written by the ingenious Dr. Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, 10 and published early in the reign of Charles II., a folio which... ...of speaking the Ziph remains unimpaired. I forget whether in the Bishop of Chester’s account of this cryptical language the consonant intercalated be ...

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...ication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...te, in ate, in ate, in ate, in M M M M Macbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth FROM MY BOYISH DAYS I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Ma... ...e human mind, and the most to be distrusted; and yet the great majority of people trust to nothing else; which may do for ordinary life, but not for p... ...uses on each side of a street, as seen by a person looking down the street from one extremity. Now in all cases, unless the person has happened to obs... ... corresponding improve- ment. Practice and theory must advance pari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine m... ...at- ever was yet known in the art, and gradually transferred it to 16 the Western World. Indeed the Jewish school was always re- spectable, even in t... ...ration himself; for, on reaching Embden, he resolved to sail instantly for West Friezland; and being very impatient of delay, he hired a bark, with a ... ... is the great En- glish Prince, Regent of France. There is my Lord of Win- chester, the princely Cardinal, that died and made no sign. There is the Bi...

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...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...g the last half of the twelfth century, it received its great est impulse from Crestien de T roies, the most distinguished of the trouvères. The met... ...year of his birth or of his death, but we know that he lived approximately from 1100 to 1175. Practically all our information about his life is what h... ...im that I am Wace of the isle of Jersey, which lies in the sea, toward the west, and is a part of the fief of Normandy. In the isle of 5 Wace Jersey ... ...ything, or see everything … God distributes differ ent gifts to different people. Each man should show his worth in that which God has given him.” He... ...cations of the Modern Language Asso ciation of America, XX, 231 ff.; J.L. Weston, as above (p. xv.), pp. 883 ft. EX EX EX EX EXCURSUS III.—THE HOP CU... ...nicles:Roman De Brut king named Constant—he caused to be nourished at Win chester, and there he made him to be vowed a monk. The second son was calle... ...sed Constantine to be slain. Great was the sorrow the lords and all honest people made above their king, for the realm had now no prince, save only th... ...ester were lords and con stables of the seventh legion. Earl Curfalain of Chester and Earl Urgain of Bath held the eighth legion as their bailly; for...

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...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...r 27, 1863. In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Win- chester, V a. At the time, it was under General Milroy as im- mediate comm... ... with General Schenck in the opinion that the force should be kept at Win- chester at least until the approach of danger, but he disobeyed 4 The Writ... ... have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three communications, all similar in import and identical in... ... attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. Y ... ...not comprehend the object of your dispatch. I do not often decline seeing people who call upon me, and probably will see you if you call. A. LINCOLN.... ...n, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 21... ... EXECUTIVE MAN- SION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., November 23, 1863. E. P. EV ANS, West Union, Adams County, Ohio: Y ours to Governor Chase in behalf of John ... ... or other civil obligation on the ground of alienage. In common with other Western powers, our relations with Japan have been brought into serious jeo...

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