William Hazlitt

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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

William Hazlitt

On Going on a Journey

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Purpose of travel Travel

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William Hazlitt

Source

On Going on a Journey Table Talk (Hazlitt)

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1822 1820s 19th century

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Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 2, London: H. Colburn.

Current Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 6, Routledge, 2020.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is stuck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

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Laughter Crying The human condition

Author

William Hazlitt

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English

Time

1818 1810s 19th century

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Hazlitt, William. "On Wit and Humour." Lectures on the English Comic Writers. c. 1818, Surrey Institution, London, England, UK.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern-why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

William Hazlitt

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Fear of death

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William Hazlitt

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English

Time

1822 1820s 19th century

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Hazlitt, William. "On the Fear of Death." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 2, London: H. Colburn.

Current Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On the Fear of Death." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 6, Routledge, 2020.

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

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Chess Great men

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William Hazlitt

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English

Time

1821 1820s 19th century

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Hazlitt, William. "The Indian Jugglers." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 1, London: John Warren, 1821.

Current Citation

Hazlitt, William. "The Indian Jugglers." The Spirit of Controversy and Other Essays, edited by Jon Mee and James Grande. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Hamlet is a name: His speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.

William Hazlitt

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Power of literature

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William Hazlitt

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English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

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Hazlitt, William. "Hamlet." Characters of Shakespear's Plays. London: Rowland Hunter and Charles Ollier and James Ollier, 1817.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

William Hazlitt

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Humor Good conversation Conversation

Author

William Hazlitt

Source

On Wit and Humour

Medium

Lecture

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English

Time

1819 1810s 19th century

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Hazlitt, William. "On Wit and Humour." Lectures on the English Comic Writers. c. 1818, Surrey Institution, London, England, UK.

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn, and laughter.

William Hazlitt

The Indian Jugglers

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School of hard knocks Learning from adversity

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William Hazlitt

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The Indian Jugglers Table Talk (Hazlitt)

Language

English

Time

1821 1820s 19th century

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Hazlitt, William. "The Indian Jugglers." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 1, London: John Warren, 1821.

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Hazlitt, William. "The Indian Jugglers." The Spirit of Controversy and Other Essays, edited by Jon Mee and James Grande. Oxford University Press, 2021.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

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Learning from the past Judging the past The past

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William Hazlitt

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On Reading New Books

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Essay

Language

English

Time

1827 1820s 19th century

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Hazlitt, William. "On Reading New Books." Monthly Magazine, July 1827.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Reading New Books." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt. Vol. 9, Routledge, 2020.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

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Nicknames Names

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William Hazlitt

Source

On Nicknames

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Essay

Language

English

Time

1839 1830s 19th century

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Hazlitt, William. "Nicknames." Sketches and Essays. London: John Templeman, 1839.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

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Uniqueness of each person

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William Hazlitt

Source

Characteristics

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Essay

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English

Time

1823 1820s 19th century

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Hazlitt, William. Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims. London, 1823, no. 305.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

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Love of freedom Freedom Love of power Power Loving others

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William Hazlitt

Source

The Times Newspaper

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Essay

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English

Time

1819 1810s 19th century

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Hazlitt, William. "The Times Newspaper." Political Essays. London: William Hone, 1819.

Current Citation

Hazlitt, William. "The Times Newspaper." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 4, Routledge, 2020.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

William Hazlitt

On Prejudice

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Overthinking

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William Hazlitt

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On Prejudice

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English

Time

1839 1830s 19th century

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Hazlitt, William. "On Prejudice." Sketches and Essays. London: John Templeman, 1839.

Comedy naturally wears itself out-destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

William Hazlitt

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Humor Cynicism

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William Hazlitt

Source

On Modern Comedy

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Essay

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English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

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Hazlitt, William. The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and Manners. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1817, no. 7.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey, but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

William Hazlitt

On Going on a Journey

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Travel Man and nature

Author

William Hazlitt

Source

On Going on a Journey Table Talk (Hazlitt)

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1822 1820s 19th century

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Original Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 2, London: H. Colburn.

Current Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 6, Routledge, 2020.