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William Hazlitt On the ignorance of the learned. For the more languages a man can speak, His talent has but sprung the greater leak: And, of the industry he has spent upon’t, Must full as much some other way discount. The Hebrew, Chaldee,and the Syriac, Do, like their letters, set men’s reason back, And turn their wits that strive to.The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.On-class presentation about William Hazlitt's On the Ignorance of the Learned.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance: for as our actual knowledge falls short of our desire to know, or curiosity and interest in the world about us, so must we be tempted to decide upon a greater number of things at a venture; and having no check from reason or inquiry, we shall grow more obstinate and bigoted in our conclusions, according as we have been rash and presumptuous.William Hazlitt Me Book Yesterday New Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
INTRODUCTION WILLIAM HAZLITT I. Hazlitt characterized the age he lived in as “critical, didactic, paradoxical, romantic.” It was the age of the Edinburgh Review, of the Utilitarians, of Godwin and Shelley, of Wordsworth and Byron—in a word of the French Revolution and all that it brought in its train.
