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As De Quincey is remarkable, even among English writers, for discursiveness and allusiveness, and as his writings, with ail their excellencies in style and thought, are not qui te free from blemishes, it bas been tbe^ object of the présent édition to give the student ail ncccssary help with regard to difficulties in language and phraseology, and at tb'î same tiine to give a caution against tbe dangers of slavish imitation and indiscriminating admiration. — Préface.