...MEMORIALS and OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Memorials and ... ...nd the expan- sion of horror attending them, had risen to the dignity of a national interest. I may add that this interest benefited also by the myste... ...mple, for accession of territory which adds noth- ing to the security of a frontier), and still more when it is fought simply as a gladiator’s trial o... ...ontier), and still more when it is fought simply as a gladiator’s trial of national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our Br... ...esses the fathers even more urgently in the rear than this presses them in front; 173 Thomas de Quincey any author posterior to Christianity, who sho... ...nd became Christians in the reign of that emperor’s grandfather, Basil the Macedonian. They are, and over have been, robbers by profession; robbers by... ...less bodies. The insurrection next spread to Thessaly; and at last even to Macedonia, from the premature and atrocious violence of the Pacha of Saloni... ...n battle, rather than to his rank and ability to pay; so that the terms of liberation were made ludicrously easy to the T urkish chiefs. These eight w... ...Some exulted in the great victory of the imperialists, and the approaching liberation of Klosterheim. Some, who were in the secret, anticipated with h...