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... course of our remarks . Of the others , it is sufficient to point out these two , that he neither completed any one great work , nor enjoyed the advantage of being represented by any great periodical ; a circumstance which has sometimes ...
... course under the control of the elder brother , who directed Thomas's movements upon the flank or rear of the enemy , sometimes planting him in ambush and sometimes as a corps of observation , as the exigencies of the case required ...
... course from sheer faintness ) , demanding wine in its stead ; and , finally , putting the crown to his audacity by asking him to back a bill for two hundred pounds . How- ever , all honour to the young Etonian - who , says De Quincey ...
... course , aggravate his apprehensions of the morrow . Be that as it may , he fairly took to his heels , and so lost the chance , which , with every draw- back , must have been an extremely good one , of figuring in the same class - list ...
... year by near four months when he expired at Edinburgh on the 8th of De- cember , 1859 . In speaking of his early infirmities we allude , of course , pri- marily to bis use of opium , but subordinately to marily 14 Thomas De Quincey .