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Athenian orator and politician. A bitter enemy to Demosthenes, he supported Philip II of Macedon, and after the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC) secured an honourable peace. In 332 BC, after Antipater had crushed a revolt against Macedonian rule, ***** procured the death of Demosthenes and his followers, but was himself executed by Cassander, the son of Antipater.

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• 1967 Death of Sir Victor Gollancz (b.1893 in London), publisher, writer, and philanthropist.

• 1834 [27 January Old Style] Birth of Dmitiri Mendeleyev in Tobolsk, Russia (d.1907), chemist, who devised the periodic table of chemical elements (1869).

• 1999 Death of Dame Iris Murdoch (b.1919 in Dublin, Ireland), novelist and philosopher, whose books include The Philosopher's Pupil (1983).

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Hazlitt, William (1778–1830)
English essayist


Mr Wordsworth's genius is a pure emanation of the Spirit of the Age. Had he lived in any other period of the world, he would never have been heard of.

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