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... entire practicability of his own release from what has been the burden and the curse of his existence . The entire object of the compilation will have been attained , if the narratives given in these pages shall be found to serve the ...
... entire practicability of his own release from what has been the burden and the curse of his existence . The entire object of the compilation will have been attained , if the narratives given in these pages shall be found to serve the ...
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... entire disuse of opium . I had failed , however , to observe that a few pages preced- ing this detailed statement the writer had given a faint inti- mation that the experiment had been a more protracted one than was indicated by the ...
... entire disuse of opium . I had failed , however , to observe that a few pages preced- ing this detailed statement the writer had given a faint inti- mation that the experiment had been a more protracted one than was indicated by the ...
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... entire time employed in his experiment occasioned me much and needless suffering . I thought that if another could descend , without the experience of greater misery than De Quincey records , from one hundred and thirty drops of ...
... entire time employed in his experiment occasioned me much and needless suffering . I thought that if another could descend , without the experience of greater misery than De Quincey records , from one hundred and thirty drops of ...
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... entire day's painful and unrelieved abstinence from the accustomed indulgence . The first three days from the commencement of this grain by grain descent was marked by obviously increased impatience with any thing like contradiction or ...
... entire day's painful and unrelieved abstinence from the accustomed indulgence . The first three days from the commencement of this grain by grain descent was marked by obviously increased impatience with any thing like contradiction or ...
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... entire week from Christmas to New Year's the prog- ress in abandonment of opium was but a single grain . I am sure there was no want of resolution at this trying time . Day by day I exhausted all my resources in the vain endeav- or to ...
... entire week from Christmas to New Year's the prog- ress in abandonment of opium was but a single grain . I am sure there was no want of resolution at this trying time . Day by day I exhausted all my resources in the vain endeav- or to ...
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Page 103 - I have called the tyranny of the human face began to unfold itself. Perhaps some part of my London life might be answerable for this. Be that as it may, now it was that upon the rocking waters of the ocean the human face began to...
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Page 99 - An additional compositor was retained, for some days, on this account. The work was even twice advertised : and I was, in a manner, pledged to the fulfilment of my intention. But I had a preface to write ; and a dedication, which I wished to make a splendid one, to Mr. Ricardo. I found myself quite unable to accomplish all this. The arrangements were countermanded : the compositor dismissed : and my Prolegomena rested peacefully by the side of its elder and more dignified brother.
Page 100 - ... what he believes possible, and feels to be exacted by duty ; but his intellectual apprehension of what is possible infinitely outruns his power, not of execution only, but even of...
Page 164 - I feel for the first time a soothing confidence it will prove) I should leave you restored to my moral and bodily health, it is not myself only that will love and honour you; every friend I have (and thank God ! in spite of this wretched vice, I have many and warm ones, who were friends of my youth and have never deserted me) will thank you with reverence.