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Biography of William Hazlitt
631 words, approx. 2.1 pages
 The English literary and social critic William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is best known for his informal essays, which are elegantly written and cover a wide range of subjects. Born at Maidstone, Kent, on April 10, 1778, William Hazlitt was the son of the Rever...
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Biography of William Hazlitt
15272 words, approx. 50.9 pages
 Among the notable themes in William Hazlitt's essays are the disappointments in his life. He failed in love and in social life; yet he recognized his intellectual superiority and exercised it in essays, reviews, and books throughout his fifty-two years....
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Biography of William Hazlitt
4602 words, approx. 15.3 pages
 William Hazlitt is best known to modern readers as the author of essays such as "On Going a Journey" and "Indian Jugglers." The face he presented to his contemporaries was not always as accommodating as that of the speaker in the familiar essays, however...




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Spirits of the Age
03/03/2002: 876 words, approx. 3 pages HOMO ZAPIENS By Victor Pelevin Translated from the Russian By Andrew Bromfield Viking. 250 pp. $24.95 The new Soviet Man -- remember him, Homo sovieticus? -- was supposed to have been born out of the spirit of the collective....
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 The Washington Post
Spirit of the Age
10/14/2001: 1,074 words, approx. 4 pages THE SHOWMAN AND THE SLAVE Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America By Benjamin Reiss Harvard Univ. 267 pp. $29.95 We have heard many laments these past few years about the prurient fascination with the private lives of our...
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 The New York Observer
Churchill's Blood, Sweat And Doctored Footnotes
2/20/2005: 1,110 words, approx. 4 pages How perfect, for starters, that the surname be Churchill. How many of us, in the aftermath of 9/11, to the extent we could think at all, thought of Winston Churchill during Britain's grim days and longed for his steely words.But we had our own Churchill:...
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 The New York Observer
Gad! Why Wasn\'d5t I Asked to Schwarzman Party? Hell, I Won\'d5t Grovel
2/11/2007: 964 words, approx. 3 pages Other readers of The Times of Jan. 27 were doubtless as fascinated as your correspondent by Landon Thomas Jr.’s account of the plans for a party to be held on Feb. 13 to celebrate the 60th birthday of private-equity pasha Steve Schwarzman. Fascinated, may I...


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