John Lancaster Spalding vs. William Hazlitt
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
John Lancaster Spalding
1840 – 1916
John Lancaster Spalding was an American Catholic author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of Peoria in Illinois from 1877 to 1908. He was also a co-founder of the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. and a co-creator of the Baltimore Catechism.
"There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels."
William Hazlitt
1778 – 1830
William Hazlitt was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He is also acknowledged as the finest art critic of his age.
"We all wear some disguise — make some professions — use some artifice to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have so…"
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