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A review by ipb1
On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt
4.0
What could be more relevant or apt for C21 than Hazlitt's "On the Pleasure of Hating". A great little 'taster' selection of his essays.
For all the vivid 19thC colour and detail a lot of Hazlitt's sensibility is strikingly modern. I wonder if anyone else has noticed? Oh - [b:William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man|5761153|William Hazlitt The First Modern Man|Duncan Wu|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1349040568l/5761153._SX50_.jpg|5932884]. Well, there you go then.
P.S. could we preface every political column, broadcast, speech, show with;
For all the vivid 19thC colour and detail a lot of Hazlitt's sensibility is strikingly modern. I wonder if anyone else has noticed? Oh - [b:William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man|5761153|William Hazlitt The First Modern Man|Duncan Wu|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1349040568l/5761153._SX50_.jpg|5932884]. Well, there you go then.
P.S. could we preface every political column, broadcast, speech, show with;
"All power is but an unabated nuisance, a barbarous assumption, an aggravated injustice, that is not directed to the common good: all grandeur that has not something corresponding to it in personal merit and heroic acts, is a deliberate burlesque, and an insult on common sense and human nature."