"Rackets and Tea":
The Life and Writings of William Hazlitt (1778-1830).

Hazlitt was to observe of Mr. Tooke that he had "the mind of a lawyer, a rigid and constant habit of attending to the exact import of every word and clause in a sentence. ... Mr. Tooke, in fact, treated words, as the chemists do substances; he separated those which are compounded of others from those which are not decompoundable. He did not explain the obscure by the more obscure, but the difficult by the plain, the complex by the simple." (Spirit Of The Age, "Mr. Horne Tooke.")

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Ch. 1 -- America (22k)

Ch. 2 -- Bentham, Godwin and The French Revolution of 1789. (27k)

Ch. 3 -- The Times -- 1791-95. (21k)

Ch. 4 -- The Times -- 1796-97. (15k)

Ch. 5 -- Hazlitt Meets Coleridge, 1798. (31k)

Ch. 6 -- Off To London To Become a Painter -- 1799. (15k)

Ch. 7 -- The Times -- 1800-01. (17k)

Ch. 8 -- Hazlitt In Paris -- 1802-03. (18k)

Ch. 9 -- An Escapade At Grasmere -- 1803. (18k)

Ch. 10 -- From Painting To Writing -- 1805-6. (15k)

Ch. 11 -- Hazlitt Marries -- 1808. (23k)

Ch. 12 -- Napoleon and Games of Whist -- 1806-10 (24k)

A Hazlitt Sampler.

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