Category: Biographies
In this work, an attempt has been made to connect together a series of original documents, by a narrative of events in the life of him to whom they relate; an account of his literary labours; and a picture of his character, according to the representations of it preserved by h...
In this work, an attempt has been made to connect together a series of original documents, by a narrative of events in the life of him to whom they relate; an account of his lit...
2. CHAPTER I.Birth--Parentage--His own account of his Ancestors--Local associations of Ninewells--Education--Studies--Early Correspondence--The Ramsays--Specimen of his early Writings-- Essa...
3. CHAPTER II.Hume leaves Bristol for France--Paris--Miracles at the Tomb of the Abbé Paris--Rheims--La Flêche--Associations with the Abbé Pluche and Des Cartes--Observations on French Societ...
4. CHAPTER III.Letters to his friends after the publication of the first and second volume of the Treatise--Returns to Scotland--Reception of his Book--Criticism in "The Works of the Learned"-...
5. CHAPTER IV.Publication of the Essays, Moral and Political--Their Character--Correspondence with Home and Hutcheson--Hume's Remarks on Hutcheson's System--Education and Accomplishments of t...
6. CHAPTER V.Hume's Residence with the Marquis of Annandale--His Predecessor Colonel Forrester--Correspondence with Sir James Johnstone and Mr. Sharp of Hoddam--Quarrel with Captain Vincent-...
7. CHAPTER VI.Hume returns to Ninewells--His domestic Position--His attempts in Poetry--Inquiry as to his Sentimentalism--Takes an interest in Politics--Appointed Secretary to General St. Cla...
8. CHAPTER VII.Publication of the "Inquiry concerning Human Understanding"-- Nature of that Work--Doctrine of Necessity--Observations on Miracles--New Edition of the "Essays, Moral and Politic...
9. CHAPTER VIII.Sir Gilbert Elliot--Hume's intimacy with him--Their Philosophical Correspondence--Dialogues on Natural Religion--Residence in Edinburgh--Jack's Land--Publication of the "Inquiry...
10. CHAPTER IX.Appointment as keeper of the Advocates' Library--His Duties-- Commences the History of England--Correspondence with Adam Smith and others on the History--Generosity to Blacklock...
11. CHAPTER I.Birth--Parentage--His own account of his Ancestors--Local associations of Ninewells--Education--Studies--Early Correspondence--The Ramsays--Specimen of his early Writings-- Essa...
12. CHAPTER II.Hume leaves Bristol for France--Paris--Miracles at the Tomb of the Abbé Paris--Rheims--La Flêche--Associations with the Abbé Pluche and Des Cartes--Observations on French Societ...
13. CHAPTER III.Letters to his friends after the publication of the first and second volume of the Treatise--Returns to Scotland--Reception of his Book--Criticism in "The Works of the Learned"-...
14. part i. sect. 1. where it appears with no other variation than thesubstitution of the word "considerable," for mighty. It thus appears that whatever remarks Hutcheson made on the passage, they were not such as to induce the author materially t...
15. CHAPTER IV.Publication of the Essays, Moral and Political--Their Character--Correspondence with Home and Hutcheson--Hume's Remarks on Hutcheson's System--Education and Accomplishments of t...
16. CHAPTER V.Hume's Residence with the Marquis of Annandale--His Predecessor Colonel Forrester--Correspondence with Sir James Johnstone and Mr. Sharp of Hoddam--Quarrel with Captain Vincent-...
17. CHAPTER VI.Hume returns to Ninewells--His domestic Position--His attempts in Poetry--Inquiry as to his Sentimentalism--Takes an interest in Politics--Appointed Secretary to General St. Cla...
18. CHAPTER VII.Publication of the "Inquiry concerning Human Understanding"-- Nature of that Work--Doctrine of Necessity--Observations on Miracles--New Edition of the "Essays, Moral and Politic...
19. CHAPTER VIII.Sir Gilbert Elliot--Hume's intimacy with him--Their Philosophical Correspondence--Dialogues on Natural Religion-- Residence in Edinburgh--Jack's Land--Publication of the "Inquir...
20. CHAPTER IX.Appointment as keeper of the Advocates' Library--His Duties-- Commences the History of England--Correspondence with Adam Smith and others on the History--Generosity to Blacklock...