 | 1821 - 724 pages
...the last. For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher : from my...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days. If opium-eating be a sensual pleasure, and if I am bound to confess that... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1847 - 270 pages
...the last. For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher : from my...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days. If opiumeating be a sensual pleasure, and if I am bound to confess that... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1850 - 324 pages
...the last. For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher : from my...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my schoolboy days. If opium-eating be a sensual pleasure, and if I am bound to confess that... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 pages
...the last. For my own part, without breach of truth or '^modesty, I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher : from my...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my schoolboy days. If opium-eating be a sensual pleasure, and if I am bound to confess that... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 290 pages
...the last. For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even, from my school-boy days, If opium-eating be a sensual pleasure, and if I am bound to confess... | |
 | Christianity - 1855 - 1394 pages
...I was made an intellectual creature,' our author tells us, in the work we have just quoted irom ; ' and intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my schoolboy days.' The first autobiographical sketch introduces our author to us before... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1867 - 142 pages
...the last. \ For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life •of a philosopher : from...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days. If opium-eating be a sensual pleasure, and if I am hound to confess that... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1867 - 140 pages
...part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the We •of a philosopher : from my birth I was made an...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days. If opium-eating be a sensual pleasure, and if I am bound to confess that... | |
 | Horace B. Day - Opium abuse - 1868 - 508 pages
...to the last. For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm that my life has been on the whole the life of a philosopher ; from my birth...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days. If opium.eating be a sensual pleasure, and if I am bound to confess that... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1876 - 636 pages
...the last. For my own part, without breach sf truth or modesty, I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher : from my...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days. If opium-eating be a sensual pleasure, and if I am bound to confess that... | |
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I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth I was made an intellectual creature : and intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days. 
