ON THE CONDUCT OF LIFE, ETC.
Published in Literary Remains, from which it is here reprinted. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s Memoirs (1867), I. 16, where the date of the essay is fixed as 1822, when Hazlitt’s son was ten years old.
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