...Ganges, or by the very name of the Euphrates. It contributes much to these feelings that South-eastern Asia is, and has been for thousands of years, the...enormous population of Asia has always been cast give a further sublimity to the feelings associated with all oriental names or images. In China, over and...

...qualities of English Take this passage of De Quincey : " It adds much to these considerations that Southern Asia is and has been for thousands of years...officina gentium. Man is a weed in those regions." This is Beaudelaire's French version, almost a word for word translation : millante de la vie humaine,...

...Ganges. or by the very name of the Euphrates. It contributes much to these feelings that South-eastern Asia is, and has been for thousands of years, the...most swarming with human life, the great officina gentìum. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires, also, into which the enormous population...