Selections From William Hazlitt
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What are the publications that succeed ? Those 5 that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves, or a set of vagabonds or miscreants that should be hunted out of society. ^ Hence men of letters, losing their self-respect, become government-tools, and prosti- 10 tute their talents to the most infamous purposes, or turn dandy saibbkrs, and set up for gentlemen authors in their own defen...ce. I like the Order of the Jesuits better than this : they made themselves respected by the laity, kept their own secret, and did not prey on one another. Resume then, oh ! Learning, thy 1 5 robe pontifical ; clothe thyself in pride and purple ; join the sacred to the profane ; wield both worlds ; instead of twopenny trash and mechanics' magazines, issue bulls and decretals ; say not, let there be light, but darkness visible; draw a bandage 1 An old friend of mine, when he read the abuse and billingsgate poured out in certain Tory publications, used to congratulate himself upon it as a favourable sign of the times, and of the progressive improvement of our manners.
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What are the publications that succeed ? Those 5 that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves, or a set of vagabonds or miscreants that should be hunted out of society. ^ Hence men of letters, losing their self-respect, become government-tools, and prosti- 10 tute their talents to the most infamous purposes, or turn dandy saibbkrs, and set up for gentlemen authors in their own defen...ce. I like the Order of the Jesuits better than this : they made themselves respected by the laity, kept their own secret, and did not prey on one another. Resume then, oh ! Learning, thy 1 5 robe pontifical ; clothe thyself in pride and purple ; join the sacred to the profane ; wield both worlds ; instead of twopenny trash and mechanics' magazines, issue bulls and decretals ; say not, let there be light, but darkness visible; draw a bandage 1 An old friend of mine, when he read the abuse and billingsgate poured out in certain Tory publications, used to congratulate himself upon it as a favourable sign of the times, and of the progressive improvement of our manners.
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