...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP... ...UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ON... ...says and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ch of bishops bound and compromised by the audacity of any one amongst its members? Certainly not. But yet such an act, though it should be that of a ... ...ciples; we refer, not to those who were born, but to those who have become members of the Church of Rome.’ What is the name of those people? And where... ...ot show itself—and the station of a syllable shall cloud the judgment of a council. Nay, even an ambiguous empha- sis falling to the right-hand word, ... ...are at any time moving. They are always kept up au courant of the interior councils and ultimate ob- jects of the most national, and, in one sense, th... ...s of the queen’s physicians only coming forward? Why not call in the whole Privy Council?—or the Lord Mayor and Common Council of London—the Sheriffs ...

...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FO...

... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...arrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... the present quitted us: and once more Agnes, Hannah, and I, the shattered members of a shattered family, were thus gathered together in a house of ou... ...he wrong side the Cordilleras. He took three steps back for one upwards. A council of war being held, the small army resolved to slaughter their horse... ... make a very important alteration in the constitution of the Kalmuck State Council, which in effect reorganized the whole politi- cal condition of the... ... the Kalmuck 145 Thomas de Quincey language called Sarga—there were eight members, called Sargatchi; and hitherto it had been the custom that these e... ...ting the character of the man,) by that very new modelling of the Sarga or Privy Council, which he had used as a principal topic of abuse and maliciou...

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

...ir Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...s Publication Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ished race were suifficient to have accounted for the dignities which many members of the family attained, without any supernatural assistance. But th... ...ir parents in Edinburgh during the sessions of the Scottish Parliament and Privy Coun- cil, at other times in the old Gothic castle of Ravenswood, to ... ...ty, had applied to the 32 Bride of Lammermoor Lord Keeper, as the nearest privy councillor, for a warrant to prevent its being carried into effect; s... ...d applied to the 32 Bride of Lammermoor Lord Keeper, as the nearest privy councillor, for a warrant to prevent its being carried into effect; so that... ...erest the various preparations of dress, etc., etc., which the differ- ent members of the family had prepared for the occasion. The morning dawned bri...

...Excerpt: Introduction to the bride of Lammermoor. The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing ...

...uis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the ... ...rds of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... and several other lesser places. 5 Records of a Family of Engineers were members of Parliament for Peebles, Stirling, Pittenweem, Kilrenny, and Inve... ...ot quite so genteel, but still in public life, Hugh was Under-Clerk to the Privy Council, and liked being so extremely. I gather this from his conduct... ...te so genteel, but still in public life, Hugh was Under-Clerk to the Privy Council, and liked being so extremely. I gather this from his conduct in Se... ...of success; rose to distinction in his calling, grew to be the familiar of members of Parliament, judges of the Court of Session, and ‘landed gentleme... ...2-3. John Rennie was afterwards, at my grandfather’s suggestion, called in council, with the style of chief engineer. The precise meaning attached to ...

Excerpt: Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson.

................ 4 CHAPTER I ? DOMESTIC ANNALS...........................................................................................11 CHAPTER II ? THE SERVICE OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS I ......................................... 32 CHAPTER III ? THE BUILDING OF THE BELL ROCK ....................................................... 57...

...ics Series Publicaation Hard Times by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furn... ... Series Publicaation Hard Times by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furnish... ...ty. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ed fingers. He had worked his stony way into Her Majesty’s most Honourable Privy Council’s Schedule B, and had taken the bloom off the higher branches... ...gers. He had worked his stony way into Her Majesty’s most Honourable Privy Council’s Schedule B, and had taken the bloom off the higher branches of ma... ...e these. You saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful. If the members of a religious persuasion built a 21 CHARLES D ICKENS chapel there... ...of a religious persuasion built a 21 CHARLES D ICKENS chapel there—as the members of eighteen religious persua sions had done—they made it a pious w... ...ur man.’ After a few dashes in the public meeting way, Mr. Gradgrind and a council of political sages approved of Jem, and it was resolved to send him...

...ts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Fa...

...tion Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...n Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...with no knowledge even of the com- mon daily tone and habits of the common members of the free community who are not shut up in prisons; born and bred... ...n, the pewter-pots, glasses, pipes, tobacco- ashes, and general flavour of members, were still as that con- vivial institution had left them on its ad... ...uble door, in which the Circumlocution Sages appeared to be as- sembled in council, and out of which there was an imposing coming of papers, and into ... ... that Lord Decimus had bought his picture, and had asked the President and Council to dinner at a blow, and had said, with his own magnificent gravity... ...do anything.’ This was the first intimation he had ever given, that he was privy to the fact that they did something for a livelihood. He was still jo...

...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being r...

...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...

...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...s Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...with no knowledge even of the com- mon daily tone and habits of the common members of the free community who are not shut up in prisons; born and bred... ...n, the pewter-pots, glasses, pipes, tobacco- ashes, and general flavour of members, were still as that con- vivial institution had left them on its ad... ...uble door, in which the Circumlocution Sages appeared to be as- sembled in council, and out of which there was an imposing coming of papers, and into ... ... that Lord Decimus had bought his picture, and had asked the President and Council to dinner at a blow, and had said, with his own magnificent gravity... ...do anything.’ This was the first intimation he had ever given, that he was privy to the fact that they did something for a livelihood. He was still jo...

...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being r...

...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...