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  1. A quotation from Hazlitt

    The least pain in our little finger gives more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

    William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
    Essay (1829-10), “American Literature — Dr. Channing,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 50, No. 99, Art. 7

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  2. A quotation from Hazlitt

    The least pain in our little finger gives more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

    William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
    Essay (1829-10), “American Literature — Dr. Channing,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 50, No. 99, Art. 7

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hazlitt-william/1423…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hazlitt #williamhazlitt #compassion #concern #discomfort #pain #perspective #pity #scale #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selffocus #selfimportance #selfpity #selfishness

  3. A quotation from Hazlitt

    The least pain in our little finger gives more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

    William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
    Essay (1829-10), “American Literature — Dr. Channing,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 50, No. 99, Art. 7

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hazlitt-william/1423…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hazlitt #williamhazlitt #compassion #concern #discomfort #pain #perspective #pity #scale #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selffocus #selfimportance #selfpity #selfishness

  4. William Hazlitt (Maidstone, 10 de Abril de 1778 – Soho, Londres, 18 de Setembro de 1830), ensaísta, crítico dramático e literário, pintor e filósofo inglês.

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    William Hazlitt, pelo seu irmão John Hazlitt, 1830.

    #art #williamhazlitt #johnhazlitt

  5. @purplepadma

    TWO. Learning is its own exceeding great reward. - #WilliamHazlitt (1778 – 1830) The Plain Speaker (1826)

  6. @purplepadma

    TWO. Learning is its own exceeding great reward. - #WilliamHazlitt (1778 – 1830) The Plain Speaker (1826)

  7. @purplepadma

    TWO. Learning is its own exceeding great reward. - (1778 – 1830) The Plain Speaker (1826)

  8. William Innell Clement (pic: c1780-1852) was a patron of boxing & newspaper proprietor who purchased #TheObserver in 1814, The Morning Chronicle in 1821, & Bell’s Life in London in 1824. Contributors to The Morning Chronicle include #WilliamHazlitt & #CharlesDickens

    #HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

  9. William Innell Clement (pic: c1780-1852) was a patron of boxing & newspaper proprietor who purchased #TheObserver in 1814, The Morning Chronicle in 1821, & Bell’s Life in London in 1824. Contributors to The Morning Chronicle include #WilliamHazlitt & #CharlesDickens

    #HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

  10. William Innell Clement (pic: c1780-1852) was a patron of boxing & newspaper proprietor who purchased #TheObserver in 1814, The Morning Chronicle in 1821, & Bell’s Life in London in 1824. Contributors to The Morning Chronicle include #WilliamHazlitt & #CharlesDickens

    #HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

  11. William Innell Clement (pic: c1780-1852) was a patron of boxing & newspaper proprietor who purchased #TheObserver in 1814, The Morning Chronicle in 1821, & Bell’s Life in London in 1824. Contributors to The Morning Chronicle include #WilliamHazlitt & #CharlesDickens

    #HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

  12. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2022/1 #WilliamHazlitt #utilitarianism Hazlitt was well aware that a tone is a power position. Our sounds are territorial. As Hazlitt noted in another essay, On Egotism, the man who comes into a room and announces that he ‘hates’ poetry puts the person who doesn’t at a momentary disadvantage. The statement of dislike seems to be a considered and superior judgment.

  13. he “strangers” in the texts of the European enlightenment, the Persians, Chinese and African kings – they are not only there to be strangers. They are there to show how strange the Europeans – or the European elites - really are. #WilliamHazlitt #AfricanKing limitedinc.blogspot.com/2022/1