The Life of David HumeClarendon Press, 2001 - 709 Seiten Mossner's Life of David Hume remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer. First published in 1954, and updated in 1980, it is now reissued in paperback in response to increased interest in Hume. E. C. Mossner was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.'Mossner's work is a quite remarkable scholarly achievement; it will be an indispensable tool for Hume scholars and a treasure-trove of information for all students of the intellectual and literary history of the eighteenth century' Richard H. Popkin in the Philological Quarterly |
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... human life 456 475 33 THE PHILOSOPHES The seiks in the Rue Royale 34 EMBASSY SECRETARY I am now possess'd of an Office of Credit 35 JEAN - JACQUES ROUSSEAU 489 507 This nice little man 36 UNDER - SECRETARY OF STATE 533 I am now , from a ...
... human life 456 475 33 THE PHILOSOPHES The seiks in the Rue Royale 34 EMBASSY SECRETARY I am now possess'd of an Office of Credit 35 JEAN - JACQUES ROUSSEAU 489 507 This nice little man 36 UNDER - SECRETARY OF STATE 533 I am now , from a ...
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... HUMAN NATURE 117 Never literary Attempt was more unfortunate . . . . It fell dead - born from the Press 11 ESSAYS MORAL AND POLITICAL 134 I very soon recovered the Blow , and prosecuted with great Ardour my Studies in the Country PART ...
... HUMAN NATURE 117 Never literary Attempt was more unfortunate . . . . It fell dead - born from the Press 11 ESSAYS MORAL AND POLITICAL 134 I very soon recovered the Blow , and prosecuted with great Ardour my Studies in the Country PART ...
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Ernest Campbell Mossner. PART II : OBSERVER OF HUMAN NATURE , 1744-1749 12 ACADEMIC ILLUSION Such a popular Clamour has been raisd against me in Edinburgh , on account of Scepticism , Heterodoxy & other hard Names . . . that my Friends ...
Ernest Campbell Mossner. PART II : OBSERVER OF HUMAN NATURE , 1744-1749 12 ACADEMIC ILLUSION Such a popular Clamour has been raisd against me in Edinburgh , on account of Scepticism , Heterodoxy & other hard Names . . . that my Friends ...
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BOYHOOD AT NINEWELLS | 20 |
STUDENT DAYS AT EDINBURGH | 35 |
617 | 48 |
LAW VERSUS LITERATURE | 52 |
DISEASE OF THE LEARNED | 66 |
RECOVERY THROUGH CATHARSIS | 81 |
TRANQUILLITY IN FRANCE | 92 |
FEVER OF PUBLICATION | 106 |
FOUR DISSERTATIONS | 319 |
DRUM ECCLESIASTIC | 336 |
SCOTLANDS AUGUSTANS | 370 |
ESSAYS MORAL AND POLITICAL 134 | 379 |
THE INDIFFERENCE OF ENGLAND | 390 |
SCOTLAND FOR EVER? | 409 |
THE CALL OF FRANCE | 423 |
THE ADULATION OF FRANCE | 441 |
A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE | 117 |
ACADEMIC ILLUSION | 155 |
THE UNFORTUNATE TUTOR | 163 |
SPECTATOR TO A REBELLION | 179 |
A MILITARY CAMPAIGN | 187 |
A MILITARY EMBASSY | 205 |
ACHIEVEMENT OF AMBITION | 223 |
LEISURE AND LAUGHTER | 232 |
CITIZEN OF EDINBURGH | 240 |
POLITICAL DISCOURSES | 257 |
PAX ECCLESIASTICA | 272 |
THE OPPOSITION GATHERS | 286 |
William Warburton | 289 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND | 301 |
THE COMTESSE DE BOUFFLERS | 456 |
THE PHILOSOPHES | 475 |
EMBASSY SECRETARY | 489 |
JEANJACQUES ROUSSEAU | 507 |
UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE | 533 |
AUTUMNAL SERENITY | 559 |
DISTURBERS OF THE PEACE | 577 |
DEATH COMES FOR THE PHILOSOPHER | 589 |
THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE | 604 |
A Humes My Own Life | 611 |
Rankenian Club | 617 |
Textual Supplement | 628 |
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