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William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essay and literary criticism. Hazlitt was a prominent English literary critic, grammarian and philosopher. Hazlitt came from a branch of Irish Protestant stock that moved in the reign of George I from the county of Antrim to Tipperary. His father, also a William Hazlitt, went to the University of Glasgow (where he was contemporary with Adam Smith), from which he received a master's degree in... full article at wikipedia

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