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Sanveer Bindra
02-07-2015, 01:19 PM
Title says it all. I apologise if asking questions of this sort violates any forum rules.

mortalterror
02-07-2015, 02:36 PM
English obviously. He mentions in Confessions of an English Opium Eater that he knew Greek and had a good classical education, so one assumes that he'd know Latin to complement his Greek. It's been a while since I read any de Quincey, but there might be a few lines of French in his work.