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Hazlitt the Dissenter

Part of the Studies in Modern History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137364432

ISBN: 978-1-349-99996-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 21, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Burley, Stephen

Pages: 1 –8

[Far away from the hustle and bustle that surrounded Hazlitt’s last days in a Soho lodging house on Frith Street, and a few weeks after his burial on 10 October 1830 in St Anne’s churchyard, just off Shaftesbury Avenue, the Unitarians of Crediton, a small and somnolent Devonshire market town,...
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Chapter 2William Hazlitt (1737–1820) and the Unitarian Controversy

Burley, Stephen

Pages: 9 –48

[One of my first attempts was a picture of my father, who was then in a green old age, with strong marked features, and scarred with the small-pox. I drew it with a broad light crossing the face, looking down, with spectacles on, reading. The book was Shaftesbury’s Characteristics, in a fine old...
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Chapter 3‘A slaughter-house of Christianity’: New College, Hackney (1786–96)

Burley, Stephen

Pages: 49 –90

[The date: 13 December 1785. The place: North’s Coffee House on King Street, Cheapside. Thirty-seven prominent nonconformists convene to address the concerns raised by the recent closure of the academies at Warrington and Hoxton. Among the delegates are distinguished Dissenting ministers and...
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Chapter 4A ‘new system of metaphysics’

Burley, Stephen

Pages: 91 –123

[The only pretension, of which I am tenacious, is that of being a metaphysician.1 Throughout Hazlitt’s studies at New College in the early 1790s he had immersed himself in the principal topics of philosophical controversy. His interest in the subject never diminished. His debut publication, An...
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Chapter 5Retrospective Radicalism: Pitt, Patriotism, and Population

Burley, Stephen

Pages: 124 –163

[If Hazlitt’s philosophical writings, ultimately, find their origin in his deep-seated antipathy to the ethics of self-love, his political writings are defined by a sustained and impassioned opposition to the theory of the divine right of kings (itself the ultimate political manifestation of...
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Chapter 6Conclusion: ‘A sublime humanity’

Burley, Stephen

Pages: 164 –167

[The aim of this book has been to explore some of the ways in which Hazlitt’s work seeks to recover the lost cultural, intellectual, and political legacies that were central to his identity as a Dissenter. The antiquarian scholar who introduces The Eloquence of the British Senate is thus a...

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