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THE

SPIRIT OF THE AGE,

OR

CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS.

BY

WILLIAM HAZLITT.

THIRD EDITION.

Gdited by his Son.

LONDON: C. TEMPLEMAN,

GREAT PORTLAND STREET.

MDCCCLVIII.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY C. W. REYNELL,

LITTLE PULTENEY ST.

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THE

SPIRIT OF THE AGE.

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HORNE TOOKE.

MR HORNE TOOKE was one of those who may be considered as connecting links between a former period and the existing generation. His education and accomplishments, nay, his political opinions, were of the last age; his mind, and the tone of his feelings were modern. There was a hard, dry materialism in the very texture of his understanding, varnished over by the external refinements of the old school. Tooke had great scope of attainment, and great versatility of pursuit; but the same shrewdness, quickness, cool self-possession, the same literalness of perception, and absence of passion and enthusiasm, characterised nearly all he did, said, or wrote. He was without a rival (almost) in private conversation, an expert public

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