Excerpt from Essays: Including the Confessions of an Opium Eater; Richard Bentley; Letters to a Young Man; John Paul Richter, Etc. Etc London after his entrance at the university, opium was suggested to him as an alleviator of rheumatic pains, from which he was acutely suffering. He took the lulling dose - and every reader of the Conv fessions will know the ecstatic manner in which he praises the wonder-working drug. Divine enjoyment; keys of paradise; these are what he won from laudanum. What he gained afterwards was an Iliad of woes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.