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William Hazlitt.
From a miniature on ivory Executed by John Hazlitt about 1784
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF
WILLIAM HAZLITT
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| A REPLY TO MALTHUS’S ESSAY ON POPULATION | 1 |
| THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE | 185 |
| PREFACE, ETC., FROM AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE LIGHT OF NATURE PURSUED | 369 |
| PREFACE FROM A NEW AND IMPROVED GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH TONGUE | 387 |
| NOTES | 397 |
A REPLY TO THE ESSAY ON POPULATION BY THE REV. T. R. MALTHUS
In a Series of Letters. To which are added, Extracts from the Essay, with Notes
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Published anonymously in one 8vo vol. of 378 pages (1807) with the followingtitle-page: ‘A Reply to the Essay on Population, by the Rev. T. R. Malthus.In a Series of Letters. To which are added, Extracts from the Essay; withnotes. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, PaternosterRow. 1807.’ The volume was printed by Arliss and Huntsman, 32 GutterLane, Cheapside.
ADVERTISEMENT
The three first of the following letters appeared originally in Cobbett’sWeekly Political Register. There are several things, in which theymay seem to require some apology. First, some persons, who wereconvinced by the arguments, have objected to the style as too flowery,and full of attempts at description. If I have erred in this respect,it has been from des