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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ...ollection, it is my wish to place at your disposal as soon as possible, in order that you may make what use of them you see fit, be it little or much.... ...amount duty to himself, which was three- fold. First, it seems that I owed military allegiant to him, as my commander-in-chief, whenever we “took the ... ... it may be fancied that, since all the relations between us as independent sovereigns (whether of war, or peace, or treaty) rested upon our own repres... ...he reader’s sight and from my own, necessarily at the same moment worked a permanent revolution in the character of my daily life. Two such changes, a... ...ip of Gibraltar; Hon. G. F ., on going out as secretary to the governor of Malta,” &c. This sketch, too hastily made up, is founded upon a base of a v... ...ertain that the society was obeyed, in a de- gree which astonished neutral observers, all over Ireland. The same society, by a printed proclamation, c...

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...Contents Volume One ..................................................................... 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ....................................................................................

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