THE

PLAIN SPEAKER:

OPINIONS ON BOOKS, MEN, AND

THINGS:

BY

WILLIAM HAZLITT.

Second Edition.

EDITED BY HIS SON.

VOL I.

LONDON: TEMPLEMAN,

GREAT PORTLAND STREET.

MDCOCLI.

270.0.130.

By Permission.

TO THE

RT. HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, M.P.,

FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY,

THE PATRIOT WHO HAS FOSTERED, THE WRITER

WHO HAS ENUNCIATED, THE STATESMAN WHO HAS ESTABLISHED,

THOSE PRINCIPLES OF RATIONAL LIBERTY,

WHICH, AGAINST FOES WITHOUT, OR TRAITORS WITHIN,

CONSTITUTE THE ABIDING BULWARK OF ENGLAND,

THIS WORK

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

BY

THE SON OF THE AUTHOR.