Life and Correspondence of David Hume: From the Papers Bequeathed by His Nephew to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Other Original Sources, Band 2W. Tait, 1846 - 534 Seiten |
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... knowledge I pretend to in history , and human affairs , I had not so bad an opinion of men as to expect that candour , disinterestedness , and humanity , could entitle me to that treatment . Yet such was my fate . After a long interval ...
... knowledge I pretend to in history , and human affairs , I had not so bad an opinion of men as to expect that candour , disinterestedness , and humanity , could entitle me to that treatment . Yet such was my fate . After a long interval ...
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... knowledge , taste , elegance , and morals , for a tutor to his son . " 1 " I am obliged to you for your good intentions , with regard to my cousin ; but you must express your- self otherwise , than by saying that you will concur with ...
... knowledge , taste , elegance , and morals , for a tutor to his son . " 1 " I am obliged to you for your good intentions , with regard to my cousin ; but you must express your- self otherwise , than by saying that you will concur with ...
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... knowledge of the author , were very much raised , and I consider it as a work of uncommon merit . I know that he has employed himself with great diligence and care in collecting the facts his style is lively and entertaining ; and he ...
... knowledge of the author , were very much raised , and I consider it as a work of uncommon merit . I know that he has employed himself with great diligence and care in collecting the facts his style is lively and entertaining ; and he ...
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... knowledge of the great works of sculpture , architecture , and painting , by which that age was chiefly distinguished ? Are you versed in all the anecdotes of the Italian literature ? These questions I heard proposed in a company of ...
... knowledge of the great works of sculpture , architecture , and painting , by which that age was chiefly distinguished ? Are you versed in all the anecdotes of the Italian literature ? These questions I heard proposed in a company of ...
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... knowledge . I believe I have mentioned to you already , Helvetius's book " De l'Esprit . " It is worth your reading , not for its philosophy , which I do not highly value , but for its agreeable composition . I had a letter from him a ...
... knowledge . I believe I have mentioned to you already , Helvetius's book " De l'Esprit . " It is worth your reading , not for its philosophy , which I do not highly value , but for its agreeable composition . I had a letter from him a ...
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Seite 388 - Or friends by him self-banished ; for his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary, and chose For its own cruel sacrifice the kind, ' Gainst whom he raged with fury strange and blind.
Seite 236 - I have begun to write a book in order to pass away the time: you may believe I have very little to do.
Seite 450 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Seite 71 - I was now callous against the impressions of public folly, and continued very peaceably and contentedly in my retreat at Edinburgh, to finish, in two volumes, the more early part of the English History, which I gave to the public in 1761, with tolerable', and but tolerable success.
Seite 165 - ... formerly known in England; I was become not only independent, but opulent. I retired to my native country of Scotland, determined never more to set my foot out of it; and retaining the satisfaction of never having preferred a request to one great man, or even making advances of friendship to any of them.
Seite 196 - I wish it were still in my power to be a hypocrite in this particular. The common duties of society usually require it ; and the ecclesiastical profession only adds a little more to an innocent dissimulation, or rather simulation, without which it is impossible to pass through the world.
Seite 63 - I had a letter from him a few days ago, wherein he tells me that my name was much oftener in the manuscript, but that the Censor of books at Paris obliged him to strike it out. • Voltaire has lately published a small work called Candide, ou VOptimisme.
Seite 390 - ... place, not richer, but with much more money, and a much larger income, by means of Lord Hertford's friendship, than I left it; and I was desirous of trying what superfluity could produce, as I had formerly made an experiment of a competency. But in 1767 I received from Mr. Conway an invitation to be under-secretary ; and this invitation, both the character of the person, and my connexions with Lord Hertford, prevented me from declining.
Seite 186 - All this attention and panegyric was at first oppressive to me ; but now it sits more easy. I have recovered, in some measure, the use of the language, and am falling into friendships, which are very agreeable ; much more so than silly, distant admiration. They now begin to banter me, and tell droll stories of me, which they have either observed themselves, or have heard from others ; so that you see I am beginning to be at home. It is probable, that this place will be long my home. I feel little...
Seite 339 - My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man?" JOHNSON. "Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been. Three or four nations have expelled him; and it is a shame that he is protected in this country.