# The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II

Author: De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859; Masson, David, 1822-1907 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42909

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## Summary

It was in winter, and in the wintry weather of the year 1803, that I first entered Oxford with a view to its vast means of education, or rather with a view to its vast advantages for study. A ludicrous story is told of a young candidate for clerical orders--that, being asked by the bishop's chaplain if he had ever "been to Oxford," as a colloquial expression for having had an academic education, he replied, "No: but he had twice been to Abingdon": Abingdon being only seven miles distant. In the same sense I might say that once before I had been at Oxford: but _that_ was as a transient visitor with Lord W----,[2] when we were both children. Now, on the contrary, I approached these venerabl...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-collected-writing-of-thomas-de-quincey-vol-ii-42909/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-collected-writing-of-thomas-de-quincey-vol-ii-42909/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-collected-writing-of-thomas-de-quincey-vol-ii-42909/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-collected-writing-of-thomas-de-quincey-vol-ii-42909/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-collected-writing-of-thomas-de-quincey-vol-ii-42909/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-collected-writing-of-thomas-de-quincey-vol-ii-42909/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-collected-writing-of-thomas-de-quincey-vol-ii-42909/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-collected-writing-of-thomas-de-quincey-vol-ii-42909/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-collected-writing-of-thomas-de-quincey-vol-ii-42909/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-collected-writing-of-thomas-de-quincey-vol-ii-42909/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-collected-writing-of-thomas-de-quincey-vol-ii-42909/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-collected-writing-of-thomas-de-quincey-vol-ii-42909/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-collected-writing-of-thomas-de-quincey-vol-ii-42909/chapters/13/index.md)