Literary Reminiscences V2

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666258298
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Literary Reminiscences, Vol. 2 of 2 written by Thomas De Quincey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Literary Reminiscences, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater General thoughts failing him; and the consciousness of this retreat, by inspiring confidence, makes it much less probable that they should fail. But, in Parliament, where the advantage of a case with given facts and circum stances, or the details of a statistical report, does not offer itself once in a dozen times that a member has occasion to speak - where he has to seek unpremeditated argu ments and reasonings of a general nature, from the im possibility of wholly evading the previous speeches that may have made an impression upon the House; - this necessity, at any rate a trying one to most people, is doubly so to one who has always walked in the leading strings of a case always swam with the help of bladders, in the conscious resource of his facts. The reason, there fore, why a lawyer succeeds ill as a senator, is to be found in the sudden removal of an artificial aid. Now, just such an artificial aid is furnished to timid or to unready men by a dinner-table, and the miscellaneous attentions, courtesies, or occupations which it enjoins or permits, as by the fixed memoranda of a brief. If a man finds the ground slipping from beneath him in a discussion - if, in a tide of illustra tion, he suddenly comes to a pause for want of matter he can make a graceful close, a self-interruption, that shall wear the interpretation of forbearance, or even win the rhetorical credit of an aposiopesis, (according to circum stances, ) by stopping to perform a duty of the occasion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.