A work undertaken in association with William Godwin. "Hazlitt personally disliked the book, but the more pedantic Godwin admired it enormously, perhaps because he had revised it extensively in the light of his own knowledge, and to Hazlitt's mild annoyance he brought out an abridged and simplified version of his own, an Outline of English Grammar, at the end of 1810" (Don Locke A Fantasy of Reason, London, 1980, p. 226).