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3289021Table-Talk — Volume 11821William Hazlitt

TABLE-TALK;


OR,


ORIGINAL ESSAYS.

BY WILLIAM HAZLITT.

LONDON:

JOHN WARREN, OLD BOND-STREET.


MDCCCXXI.




LONDON:

PRINTED RY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.


ADVERTISEMENT.




It may be proper to observe, that the Essays “On the Pleasure of Painting” and “On the Ignorance of the Learned,” in this Volume, have already appeared in periodical publications.


CONTENTS.





Page
Essay I.—On the Pleasure of Painting 1
Essay II.—The same Subject continued 23
Essay III.—On the Past and Future 43
Essay IV.—On Genius and Common Sense 65
Essay V.—The same Subject continued 91
Essay VI.—Character of Cobbett 113
Essay VII.—On People with one Idea 135
Essay VIII.—On the Ignorance of the Learned 159
Essay IX.—The Indian Jugglers 179
Essay X.—On Living to one’s-self 209
Essay XI.—On Thought and Action 235
Essay XII.—On Will-making 265
Essay XIII.—On certain Inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses 287
Essay XIV.—The same Subject continued 311
Essay XV.—On Paradox and Common-place 347
Essay XVI.—On Vulgarity and Affectation 373


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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