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...CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER by Thomas De Quincey A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION C... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...electronic transmission, in any way. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Class... ...n originally to proceed to Westmoreland, both from the love I bore to that country and on other personal accounts. Accident, however, gave a different... ...ps His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. —Shelley’s Revolt of Islam. READER, who have thus far accompanied me, I must request your attent... ...ny effect whatever; and this at an advanced age. I have an anecdote from a country surgeon, however, which sinks Mr. Harriott’s case into a trifle; an...

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...ia State University. All the student essays contained herein were produced by students regis- tered in English 004, within the Commonwealth College of... ...nce summer began, the campground was swamped with people from all over the country. Our quiet Hobbie home was soon flooded with sounds of screaming ch... ...arby town and stayed at the campground because they enjoyed summers in the country. I made many friends with the kids who camped regularly at the camp... ...e early 1940s until the late 1960s, my maternal grandparents made ci- gars by hand. They had their own cigar fac- tory in the small two-story garage l... ... cigars, they were recognized as some of the last craftsmen to make cigars by hand. Grandpa’s picture is on display at the Historical Society of York,... ...wake of the September 11 attacks. However, that’s also the feeling of many Islamic radicals in the wake of the United States’ bombing of the al-Shifa ... ...n be refuted easily. First of all, Muslims were, and are, able to practice Islam in the United States. No law has infringed on that right, either here... ...re or abroad. The ter- rorists, however, have done much to hurt and defile Islam. The Holy Quran, in verse 4.29, warns followers not to kill them- sel... ...occurred, local news was still non-existent. Every news station around the country dedi- cated its entire broadcasts to coverage, and all assignments ...

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............................. 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE. .............................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUTHER; REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM...

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...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...ansmission, in any way. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics S... ...VIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HE... ...ar- sighted, rather sceptical Mr. T urner’s Account of his Embassy to that country, and see. They have their belief, these poor Thibet people, that Pr... ...ings was written down. On the seabord of this wild land is a rim of grassy country, where cattle can subsist, and men by means of them and of what the... ...portion along the east coast; and greatest of all, as I find, in the North Country. From the Humber upwards, all over Scotland, the Speech of the com-... ... T rue Religion.” [May 8, 1840.] LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM. F ROM THE FIRST RUDE TIMES of Paganism among the Scandinavians in th... ... veiling the Eternal Splendor. “Allah akbar, God is great;”—and then also “Islam,” That we must submit to God. That our whole strength lies in resigne...

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...The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION T... ...RONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...ectronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ...c by this proof that the mur- derer had not condescended to sneak into the country, or to abandon for a moment, under any motive of caution or fear, t... ... have felt, as a case of lu- dicrous disproportion, the contrast between a country town or village, on the one hand, and, on the other, a work more la... ...or her murder, when the alarm in the street interrupted him. 6 ‘Revolt of Islam,’ canto xii. 7 See his bitter letters to Lady Suffolk. 54 The Note ... ...disturb a judgment, but only to re-affirm it. And he returns to his native country, quartering in his armorial bearings these new trophies, as though ...

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...Life of Johnson by James Boswell Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...sgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosv... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosv... ...ld, wel- coming back its famous son to dinner and tea, or to the seat of a country squire, or ducal castle, or village tavern, or the grim but hospita... ...egance of female dress. When I found that he saw the romantick beauties of Islam, in Derbyshire, much better than I did, I told him that he resembled ... ...titious notion, which, it is wonderful to think, prevailed so long in this country, as to the virtue of the regal touch; a notion, which our kings enc... ...oswell’s Life of Johnson ing part of a summer at my parsonage house in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of Felixm... ...she thinks reasonable.’ Dr. Johnson obligingly proposed to carry me to see Islam, a romantick scene, now belonging to a family of the name of Port, bu... ...ngreve wrote his Old Bachelor. We viewed a remarkable natural curiosity at Islam; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock, not from immediat...

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................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS REVEALED BY LORD ROSSE?S TELESCOPES......... 189 MODERN SUPERSTITION ........................................................................................................ 224 COLERIDGE AND OPIUM-EATING ................................

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...n develop printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West-One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charle...

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... My dear Walkley, you once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, it...

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