On the Pleasure of Hating

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) had many talents. He was a painter, a writer, a journalist, a literary critic and a philosopher of sort. His essays have formed a thought-provoking collection of observations on human nature. The themes of the essays in this book touch on different subjects from the philosophical contemplations to the political observations. They all have in common one thing the insightful eloquence of William Hazlitt.