THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE; OR, CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS. BY WILLIAM HAZLITT. To know another well, were to know one's-self." VOL. II. PARIS, PUBLISHED BY A. AND W. GALIGNANI, AT THE ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, GERMAN AND SPANISH 1825. THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE. The du REV. MR. IRVING. THIS gentleman has gained an almost unprecedented, and not an altogether unmerited popularity as a preacher. As he is, perhaps, though a burning and a shining light, not "one of the fixed," we shall take this opportunity of discussing his merits, while he is at his meridian height; and in doing so, shall "nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice." Few circumstances show the prevailing and VOL. II. I |