 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1867 - 142 pages
...thousands of years, the part of the earth most swarming with human life ; the great officina gentium. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also,...am terrified by the modes of life, by the manners, and the barrier of utter abhorrence, and want of sympathy, placed between us by feelings deeper than... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1867 - 140 pages
...thousands of years, the part of the earth most swarming with human life ; the great officina gentium. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also, into which the enormous population of Asia ha• always been cast, give a further sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental names... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...thousands of years, the part of the earth most swarming with human life, the great officina gentium. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires,...barrier of utter abhorrence placed between myself and them, by counter-sympathies deeper than I can analyse. I could sooner live with lunatics, with vermin,... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...the earth most swarming with human life; the great officina gentium. Man is a weed in those region«. ing as a hair-pin, have you, countess? for I slept...is quite respectable?" " He isgcntleman-in-waiting »bove what it ha-s in common with the rest of South ern Asia, I am terrified by the modes of life,... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...swarmmg with human life, the great qfficina gentium. Man is a weed in these regions. The vast empires into which the enormous population of Asia has always...to the feelings associated with all oriental names and usages. In China, over and above what it has in common with the rest of southern Asia, I am terrified... | |
 | Readers - 1875 - 324 pages
...Asia is, and has been for thousands of years, the part of the earth most swarming with human life. 4. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also,...am terrified by the modes of life, by the manners, and the barrier of utter abhorrence, and want of sympathy, placed between us by feelings deeper than... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1876 - 640 pages
...thousands of yeais. the part of the earth most swarming with human life, the great officina gentium. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires,...am terrified by the modes of life, by the manners, and the barrier of utter abhorrence, and want of sympathy, placed between us by feelings deeper than... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1876 - 654 pages
...part of the earth most swarming with human life, the great offirina gentium. Man is a weed in thos« regions. The vast empires, also, into which the enormous...am terrified by the modes of life, by the manners, and the barrier of utter abhorrence, and want of sympathy, placed between us by feelings deeper than... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...thousands of years, the part of the earth most swarming with human life, the great officina gentium. 1 Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires, also, into which the enor1 ' Manufactory of nations.' mous population of Asia has always been cast, give a further sublimity... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English essays - 1878 - 346 pages
...thousands of years, the part of the earth most swarming with human life, the great officina gentium. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires,...barrier of utter abhorrence placed between myself and them, by counter-sympathies deeper than I can analyse. I could sooner live with lunatics, with vermin,... | |
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Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires, also, into which the enormous population of Asia has always been cast, give a further sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental names or images. In China... 
