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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...NARRATIVE and MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Narr... ...NARRATIVE and MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Narrative and ... ...ASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...f sortilege was then coming to be thought irreligious in Christendom, as a Jewish and a Heathen mode of question- ing the dark future. She simply gues... ...her must have been painted to meet the intense interest which arose in her history subsequently amongst all the men of rank, military or ecclesiastica... ...eason why the Spanish of all nations became the most gloomily jealous of a Jewish cross in the pedigree, was because, until the vigilance of the Churc... ...ez on reaching T ucuman found no Spaniards to mix with, but instead twelve Portuguese. Catalina remembered the Spanish proverb—‘Subtract from a Spania... ...m a Spaniard all his good qualities, and the remainder makes a pretty fair Portuguese;’ but, as there was nobody else to 122 Narrative and Miscellane... ...a. Her first adventure was a bagatelle, and fitter for a jest- book than a history; yet it proved no jest either, since it led to the tragedy that fol...

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