The Spirit of the Age
Mr. Gifford has no pretensions to be thought a man of genius, of taste, or even of general knowledge. He merely understands the mechanical and instrumental part of learning. He is a critic of the last age, when the different editions of an author, or the dates of his several performances were all...
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Mr. Gifford has no pretensions to be thought a man of genius, of taste, or even of general knowledge. He merely understands the mechanical and instrumental part of learning. He is a critic of the last age, when the different editions of an author, or the dates of his several performances were all that occupied the inquiries of a profound scholar, and the spirit of the writ
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ISBN:
9780854175482 (0854175482)
Publisher: Scolar Press
Pages no: 238
Edition language: English
[These notes were made in 1983:]. From this book, which took me some weeks to get through, I learned chiefly that Mr. Hazlitt was a Whig, at a time when Whigs were well out of power, and that he had an extremely vituperative pen for all his political opponents. His chief complaint is of something c...
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