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Confessions of an English Opium-eater - Page 72
by Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 49 pages
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...above all, of their mythologies, &c. — is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...that have flowed apart, and refused to mix, through some immemorial tracts of time ; nor can any man fail to be awed by the sanctity of the Ganges, or...
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The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed ..., Volumes 3-4

Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...institutions, histories, modes of faith, &c. , is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity of гл-itee that have flowed apart, and refused to mix, through such immemorial tracts of time; nor can...
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Readings in English literature, prose

English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...histories, and above all of their mythologies, is so impressive that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...tracts of time ; nor can any man fail to be awed by the sanctity of the Ganges, or the very name of the Euphrates. It contributes much to these feelings that...
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The Pacific Coast First [-fifth] Reader, Volume 5

Readers - 1875 - 324 pages
...institutions, histories and modes of faith is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...young Chinese seems to me an antediluvian man renewed. 3. Even Englishmen, though not bred in any knowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the...
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Confessions of an English Opium-eater, and Kindred Papers

Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1876 - 654 pages
...institutions, histories, modes of faith, &c., is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...sublimity of castes that have flowed apart, and refused to mir, through such immemorial tracts of time ; nor can any man fail to be awed by the names of the Ganges,...
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Confessions of an English Opium-eater, and Kindred Papers

Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1876 - 640 pages
...institutions, histories, modes of faith, &c., is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity of rastes that have flowed apart, and refused to mir, through such immemorial tracts of time ; nor can...
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Chambers's national reading-books, Book 6

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...above all, of their mythologies, &c., is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...tracts of time ; nor can any man fail to be awed by the sanctity of the Ganges, or by the very name of the Euphrates. It contributes much to these feelings,...
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Confessions of an English opium eater

Thomas De Quincey - 1878 - 350 pages
...above all, of their mythologies, &c., is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...tracts of time; nor can any man fail to be awed by the sanctity of the Ganges, or by the very name of the Euphrates. It contributes much to these feelings,...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...institutions, histories, modes of faith, etc., is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...have flowed apart, and refused to mix through such ¡inmemorial tracts of time ; nor can any man fail to be awed by the names of the Cîanges or the Euphrates....
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Darwin, Carlyle, Dickens, the Fools, Jesters, and Comic Characters in ...

Samuel Davey - English literature - 1879 - 302 pages
...histories, above all, of their mythologies, is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...Chinese seems to me an antediluvian man renewed. Even an Englishman, though not bred in any knowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic...
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