William Hazlitt English writer We ask you, humbly, to help. Hi reader in Canada, it seems you use Wikipedia a lot; that's great! Maybe later Thank you! Close William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. During his lifetime he befriended many people who are now part of the 19th-century literary canon, including Charles and Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats.[8] Contents Life and works[edit] Background[edit] Childhood, education, young philosopher (1778–1797)[edit] Childhood[edit] House in Wem, Shropshire where the Reverend William Hazlitt and his family lived between 1787 and 1813 William, the youngest of the surviving Hazlitt children, was born in Mitre Lane, Maidstone, in 1778. Education[edit] Hazlitt was educated at home and at a local school. Changes were taking place within the young Hazlitt as well. The young philosopher[edit] The itinerant painter[edit] In "Mr.
Letters_and_Social_Aims_Scholar_s_Choice Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844–1900) Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ( NEE-chə, NEE-chee,[10] German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈniːtʃə] i or [ˈniːtsʃə];[11][12] 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer, whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. Life[edit] Youth (1844–1868)[edit] Born on 15 October 1844, Nietzsche[13] grew up in the town of Röcken (now part of Lützen), near Leipzig, in the Prussian Province of Saxony. Nietzsche attended a boys' school and then a private school, where he became friends with Gustav Krug and Wilhelm Pinder, all three of whom came from highly respected families. In 1854, he began to attend the Domgymnasium in Naumburg. While at Schulpforta, Nietzsche pursued subjects that were considered unbecoming. In 1865, Nietzsche thoroughly studied the works of Arthur Schopenhauer. Philosophy[edit] Works[edit]
oll.libertyfund The perception of matter is made the common sense, and for cause. This was the cradle, this the go-cart, of the human child. We must learn the homely laws of fire and water; we must feed, wash, plant, build. But whilst we deal with this as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here; that we must be making ready to go;—a warning that this magnificent hotel and conveniency we call Nature is not final. This hint, however conveyed, upsets our politics, trade, customs, marriages, nay, the common-sense side of religion and literature, which are all founded on low nature,—on the clearest and most economical mode of administering the material world, considered as final. Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against, any more than against the current of Niagara. for the universe is full of their echoes.
Albert O. Hirschman Albert Otto Hirschman[1] (born Otto-Albert Hirschmann; April 7, 1915 – December 10, 2012) was an influential economist and the author of several books on political economy and political ideology. His first major contribution was in the area of development economics.[2] Here he emphasized the need for unbalanced growth. Because developing countries are short of decision making skills, he argued that disequilibria should be encouraged to stimulate growth and help mobilize resources. Key to this was encouraging industries with a large number of linkages to other firms. His later work was in political economy and there he advanced two simple but intellectually powerful schemata. In World War II, he played a key role in rescuing refugees in occupied France. Life[edit] Soon thereafter, Hirschman volunteered to fight on behalf of the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War. Hirschman helped develop the hiding hand principle in his 1967 essay 'The principle of the hiding hand'. Books[edit] 1945.
The_Complete_Works_of_Ralph_Waldo_Emerso Jean-Jacques Rousseau Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712–1778) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, [1][2] French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought.[3] Biography[edit] Youth[edit] Rousseau was born in Geneva, which was at the time a city-state and a Protestant associate of the Swiss Confederacy (now a canton of Switzerland). Rousseau was proud that his family, of the moyen order (or middle-class), had voting rights in the city. Geneva, in theory, was governed "democratically" by its male voting "citizens". There was much political debate within Geneva, extending down to the tradespeople. Rousseau's father, Isaac Rousseau, followed his grandfather, father and brothers into the watchmaking business. Early adulthood[edit]
en.m.wikipedia Nahum Tate's 1681 adaptation of King Lear Facsimile of the first edition, 1681 The History of King Lear is an adaptation by Nahum Tate of William Shakespeare's King Lear. It first appeared in 1681, some seventy-five years after Shakespeare's version, and is believed to have replaced Shakespeare's version on the English stage in whole or in part until 1838.[1] Unlike Shakespeare's tragedy, Tate's play has a happy ending, with Lear regaining his throne, Cordelia marrying Edgar, and Edgar joyfully declaring that "truth and virtue shall at last succeed." Regarded as a tragicomedy, the play has five acts, as does Shakespeare's, although the number of scenes is different, and the text is about eight hundred lines shorter than Shakespeare's. The tragic ending was briefly restored by Edmund Kean in 1823. Comparison with Shakespeare[edit] Shakespeare's version[edit] Kent, returning in disguise, offers himself in service to Lear, and is accepted. Tate's version[edit] Background and history[edit] Ha!
Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623–1662) Blaise Pascal ( pass-KAL, -KAHL, PASS-kəl, -kal, pahs-KAHL;[3][4][5][6][7] French: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer. Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement within Catholicism known by its detractors as Jansenism.[10] Following a religious experience in late 1654, he began writing influential works on philosophy and theology. Throughout his life, Pascal was in frail health, especially after the age of 18; he died just two months after his 39th birthday.[13] Life Early life and education In 1631, five years after the death of his wife,[2] Étienne Pascal moved with his children to Paris. Essay on Conics Particularly of interest to Pascal was a work of Desargues on conic sections. Pascaline
The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838-1842 - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Google Books Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig (/zwaɪɡ, swaɪɡ/;[1] German: [tsvaɪk]; 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world.[2] Biography[edit] Stefan Zweig (standing) in Vienna with his brother Alfred, circa 1900 Zweig was born in Vienna, the son of Moritz Zweig (1845–1926), a wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer, and Ida Brettauer (1854–1938), a daughter of a Jewish banking family.[3] He was related to the Czech writer Egon Hostovský, who described him as "a very distant relative";[4] some sources describe them as cousins. The Zweigs' house in Brazil was later turned into a cultural centre and is now known as Casa Stefan Zweig. Work[edit] Zweig's memoir,[24][25][26] The World of Yesterday, was completed in 1942 one day before he committed suicide. Surviving copy of Zweig's novel Amok (1922) burned by National Socialists Bibliography[edit] Fiction[edit]
www.galaxie Journal: Bibliotheca SacraVolume: BSAC 050:197 (Oct 1893)Article: Edwin P. Whipple, As An English EssayistAuthor: T. W. Hunt BSac 50:197 (Oct 1893) p. 30 Edwin P. Professor T. Mr. Born in Gloucester, Mass., March 8th, 1819, his comparatively uneventful life ran its serene and even course on to the date of his death, in the city of Boston, June 16th, 1886. BSac 50:197 (Oct 1893) p. 31 saw the same handkerchief enclose the four more volumes asked for, but of Hawthorne in person I could never obtain even a glimpse.” At Boston, in 1837, he again illustrates the suggestive union of business and literature in his character, as Banking House Clerk and Superintendent of the Merchant’s Exchange News Room; as a member of the Mercantile Library Association and of a literary club known, at that time, as the “Attic Nights.” visitor : : uid: ()