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Category : Great Britain
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Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters
Author: William HazlittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Political Essays
Author: William HazlittPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters
Author: William HazlittPolitical essays, with sketches of public characters
Author: William HazlittPOLITICAL ESSAYS
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Political Essays
Author: William HazlittPublisher: Forgotten Books
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Excerpt from Political Essays: With Sketches of Public Characters I AM no politician, and still less can I be said to be a party-man: but I have a hatred of tyranny, and. A contempt for its tools; and this feeling I have ex pressed as often and as strongly as I could. I cannot sit quietly down under the claims of barefaced power, and I have tried to expose the little arts of sophistry by which they are defended. I have no mind to have my person made a property of, nor my under standing made a dupe of. I deny that liberty and slavery are convertible terms, that right and wrong, truth and falsehood, plenty and famine, the comforts or wretchedness of a people, are matters of perfect indifference. That is all I know of the matter; but on these points I am likely to remain incorrigible, in spite of any arguments that I have seen used to the contrary. It needs no sagacity to discover that two and two make four; but to persist in maintain ing this obvious position, if all the fashion, authority, hypocrisy, and venality of mankind were arrayed against it, would require a considerable effort of personal courage, and. Would soon leave a. Man in a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters
Author: William HazlittAuthors and Their Works with Dates
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
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Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters
Author: William HazlittPublisher: Sagwan Press
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