...country as the celebrated Enquiry concerning Political Justice. Tom Paine was considered for the time as a Tom Fool to him ; Paley an old woman ; Edmund Burke...its abode ; and these were the oracles of thought. « Throw aside your books of chemistry,' said Wordsworth to a young man, a student in the Temple, 'and...

...country as the celebrated Enquiry concerning Political Justice. Tom Paine was considered for the time as a Tom Fool to him ; Paley an old woman ; Edmund Burke a flashy sophist '. But Hazlitt's essay has not sufficed to alter the prevailing impression that Godwin was merely one...

...for the time as a Tom Fool to him ; aley an old woman ; Edmund Burke a flashy sophist. Truth, oral truth, it was supposed, had here taken up its abode ; and these ere the oracles of thought. ' Throw aside your books of chemistry,' lid Wordsworth to a young man,...

...country as the celebrated Enquiry concerning Political Justice. Tom Paine was considered for the time as a Tom Fool to him, Paley an old woman, Edmund Burke a flashy sophist.1 When Godwin's principal treatise appeared in 1793 it was avidly read by young intellectuals...

...gave such a blow to the philosophical mind of the century.. .Tom Paine was considered for the time as a Tom Fool to him; Paley an old woman; Edmund Burke a flashy sophist." Twenty-five years later, however, "Mr. Godwin's person is not known.. .his opinions are not asked.....

...country as the celebrated Enquiry concerning Political Justice. Tom Paine was considered for the time as a Tom Fool to him; Paley an old woman; Edmund Burke...truth, it was supposed, had here taken up its abode. . . . 'Throw aside your books of chemistry,' said Wordsworth to a young man, a student in the Temple,...

...country as the celebrared Enquity concerning Political justice, Tom Paine was considered for the time as a Tom Fool to him, Paley an old woman, Edmund Burke a flashy sophist' (Hazlirt 1954, 20). This was because Godwin's philosophical treatise was not a shot from the hip but...

...Justice," William Hazlitt observed retrospectively in 1825; "Tom Paine was considered for the time as a Tom Fool to him, Paley an old woman, Edmund Burke...taken up its abode; and these were the oracles of thought."1 With a pen of steel Godwin unrolled his principles towards the Temple of Reason — without...