Excerpt from Twenty-Two Essays of William Hazlitt: Selected and Edited These twenty-two essays are chosen with the main purpose of illustrating the prose style of William Hazlitt and of furnish ing material for its fruitful study by those who are teach ing or learning the difficult art of using the English tongue in written discourse. For this reason, certain of Hazlitt's important activities, such as criticism and lectures, are imperfectly displayed, as they have little direct appeal to the average student; while other aspects of his mind, represented by his autobiographical and reflective essays, are very fully represented, because experience has Shown that here he joins hands familiarly with the veriest tyro in self-expression and readily becomes a guide and an example. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.