Lecture IV. of the series. Cf. the essay on ‘Self-Love and Benevolence (A Dialogue)’ printed in vol. XII. pp. 95 et seq., and An Essay on the Principles of Human Action (vol. VII. pp. 383, et seq.), from which a great part of the present Lecture is taken.
[133]. ‘Wise saws and modern instances.’ As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7. [136]. ‘Mutual interest,’ etc. Jonathan Wild, Book I. Chap. 4. [139]. Shaftesbury or Hutcheson. Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), author of the Characteristics (1711), and Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746), a supporter of Shaftesbury’s ethics. [140]. ‘Pity is only,’ etc. See Hobbes’s Human Nature, Chap. IX. Sect. 10. [147]. ‘The jealous God,’ etc.
‘Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.’
Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 75–6.
‘Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.’
Pope, An Essay on Man, l. 218.
MADAME DE STAËL’S ACCOUNT OF GERMAN PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE
Madame de Staël’s De l’Allemagne, published in London in 1813, had been reviewed, possibly by Hazlitt, in The Morning Chronicle for Nov. 13, 1813, and the four papers here reprinted and signed ‘An English Metaphysician’ are ostensibly a continuation of that review, though they contain very little about German philosophy and nothing at all about German literature. They are, in fact, merely fragments in letter form of the course of lectures which Hazlitt had recently delivered at the Russell Institution. See ante, pp. 25 et seq. and notes. Hazlitt was a regular contributor to The Morning Chronicle during 1813 and 1814. Some of his contributions on politics, the stage, and the fine arts will be found in vols. III., VIII. and IX. of the present edition; and he gives an account of his relations with James Perry, the editor, in the essay ‘On Patronage and Puffing’ (see vol. VI. p. 289). None of the Chronicle papers included in the present volume have been republished before.
[162]. The article in The Edinburgh Review. Vol. XXII. p. 198. The review was by Jeffrey. [164]. ‘They were made fierce,’ etc. Cf. ante, note to p. 27. [165]. ‘Four champions fierce,’ etc. Cf. ante, note to p. 28.