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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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... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...Bible, not the little book which, in past times, came next to the Bible in European diffusion and currency, 1 viz., the treatise “De Imitatione Chris... ...s by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of the scene is the very evoker of the solemn reme... ...dealizes.] Ascend with me on this dazzling Whitsunday the Brocken of North Germany. The dawn opened in cloudless beauty; it is a dawn of bridal June; ... ...all the incalculable genera- tions that had trot this earth before us. The Parliament of living men, Lords and Commons united, what a miserable array ... ...ed, what a miserable array against the Upper and Lower House composing the Parliament of ghosts! Perhaps the Pre-Adamites would con- stitute one wing ... ...the limitation of expressions too wide or too vague, and upon the decisive election between meanings potentially double. Not in order to resist or eva... ...tually succeed so far in hoaxing the cabinets of Europe, that one third of European kings put down their names, and gave their aid, as conspirators ag... ...post- ing house so solitary, but that at all seasons, except a con- tested election, it could furnish horses without delay, and without license to dis...

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...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Comm...

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...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Haight Turk, Ph.D. A P... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ... often surrebribed; a mail-coach yard was like the hustings in a contested election; and a horse-keeper, ostler, or helper, was held by the philosophi... ...more than snakes in V on T roil’s Iceland;* except, indeed, now and then a parliamentary rat, who always hides his shame in what I have shown to be th... ...established interests, 2, a large system of new arrangements, and 3, a new parliamentary statute. But as yet this change was merely in contemplation. ... ...cept the exhaustion in the vast adja- cent county of York from a contested election, no such si- lence succeeding to no such fiery uproar was ever wit... ...f. These two roads, one of which was the great highroad between France and Germany, decussated at this very point; which is a learned way of saying th... ...y odd remark upon Thomas à Kempis: which is, that a man of any conceivable European blood—a Finlander, sup- pose, or a Zantiote—might have written Tom... ...l. VI, pp. 178-215. 64 10 LORRAINE, now in great part in the possession of Germany, is the district in which Domrémy, Joan’s birth- place, is situated...

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...MEMORIALS and OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Memorials and ... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...portraitures of our novelists, with the realities handed down to us by our Parliamentary annals), on that arena we are deal- ing with objects of pure ... ...entury, or between the privileged cities and the un- privileged country of Germany down to the Thirty Years’ War; but, for us, they are in the last de... ...ntury belonging I do not know, who had every possible bad quality known to European experience, and a solitary good one, namely, eight hundred thousan... ...En- glish, but in sounding Attic Greek. Latin is a privileged dia- lect in parliament. But Greek! It would not have been at all more startling to the ... ...onial worship, a pompous and elaborate cultus, were not brought forward in Germany until about ten or twelve years ago; whereas, my doctrine was expre... ...two birds with one stone.” It happens that the earliest book in our modern European literature, which has subsequently ob- tained a station of authori... ...ion for one and the same law. This being so, how could he possibly make an election be- tween two things which he constantly confounded and re- garded...