Selected Essays of William Hazlitt 1778 to 1830Read Books Ltd, 18 apr 2013 - 830 pagina's Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
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... habits. At the outset of his career he experienced successive disappointments. Hard work seemed always to result only in failure, and he was writer, painter, and again writer, painter, before deciding finally to be writer. Afterwards he ...
... habits. At the outset of his career he experienced successive disappointments. Hard work seemed always to result only in failure, and he was writer, painter, and again writer, painter, before deciding finally to be writer. Afterwards he ...
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... habit and imagination. In short, the question, whether life is accompanied with a greater quantity of pleasure or pain, may be fairly set aside as frivolous, and of no practical utility; for our attachment to life depends on our ...
... habit and imagination. In short, the question, whether life is accompanied with a greater quantity of pleasure or pain, may be fairly set aside as frivolous, and of no practical utility; for our attachment to life depends on our ...
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... habit of supplying our ideas from foreign sources “enfeebles all internal strength of thought,” as a course of dramdrinking destroys the tone of the stomach. The faculties of the mind, when not exerted, or when cramped by custom and ...
... habit of supplying our ideas from foreign sources “enfeebles all internal strength of thought,” as a course of dramdrinking destroys the tone of the stomach. The faculties of the mind, when not exerted, or when cramped by custom and ...
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... habits, and pursuits through life. The greater or less degree of animal spirits,—of nervous irritability,—the complexion of the blood, —the proportion of “hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce that strive for mastery,”—the ...
... habits, and pursuits through life. The greater or less degree of animal spirits,—of nervous irritability,—the complexion of the blood, —the proportion of “hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce that strive for mastery,”—the ...
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... habits and actions as any theory of moral sentiments taught in the schools. Rules and precautions may, no doubt, be applied to counteract the excesses and overt demonstrations of any such characteristic infirmity; but still the disease ...
... habits and actions as any theory of moral sentiments taught in the schools. Rules and precautions may, no doubt, be applied to counteract the excesses and overt demonstrations of any such characteristic infirmity; but still the disease ...
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abstract admiration Æschylus appearance beauty Beggar’s Opera better Burke Burke’s caput mortuum character circumstances Coleridge colours common commonplace conversation Correggio death delight effect English Essay expression face fancy favour favourite feeling French French Revolution friends genius give habit hand Hazlitt heart House of Commons human humour idea imagination impression indifference interest Job Orton Lamb laugh learned less live look Lord Lord Byron Lord Keppel man’s manner means mind Molière nature Nether Stowey never object one’s opinion ourselves pain painter painting pass passion perhaps person picture pleasure poet poetry portrait prejudice pretensions principle prose reason Rembrandt seems sense sentiment Shakespear shew sort sound speak spirit style supposed talk taste things thought Titian truth turn understanding vanity virtue vulgar William Hazlitt Winterslow wish words write