Thomas de Quincey 
Confessions of an English Opium Eater 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude; and, even in the choice of a grave, will sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the church-yard, as if declining to claim fellow ship with the great family of man, and wishing (in the affecting language of Mr. Wordsworth)