Thomas de quincy biography of abraham

homas de Quincey was born in Manchester on 15 August 1785, the second son and fifth of eight children born to a successful and wealthy linen merchant, Thomas Quincey.

de Quincey initially was educated at Salford but in 1792, de Quincey's father died and his mother took the family to live in Bath.

Biography.

The papers included in this volume, like those in the last, were written at different points of De Quincey's life, and are culled from different periodicals.

Online Books by Thomas De Quincey (De Quincey, Thomas, ) Online books about this author are available, as is a Wikipedia article.

Yet, surely they forget that, if simply to come too early was the fatal bar to their claims in the case, Abraham, the father of the faithful, could not benefit.

Chronology, Frenchand English Manners,.

de Quincey was educated in schools at Salford, Bath and Winkfield; at the age of 15 he began to attended Manchester Grammar School from which he ran away eighteen months later. After spending time wandering in Wales, de Quincey arrived in London in November 1802 where he struck up a friendship with a young prostitute called Ann.

Reconciled with his family, de Quincey was persuaded to go to university and in 1803 was registered as a student at Worcester College, Oxford.

It appears that he spent little time at university and never graduated. He was a very solitary student who read widely and absorbed the Classics readily. Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821) contains many classical