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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... passed over ; but it is also part of his history , that he repented of the act at the last available moment , and suppressed the publication . 2 That after the ghastly scene which he witnessed twenty years earlier , he should have ...
... passed over ; but it is also part of his history , that he repented of the act at the last available moment , and suppressed the publication . 2 That after the ghastly scene which he witnessed twenty years earlier , he should have ...
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... passed his trials , above four months ago , for a lieutenantcy . He always behaved well in all his service , which has been very long ; and , almost from his infancy , he has had the good - will , and even friendship , 28 1757 . THE ...
... passed his trials , above four months ago , for a lieutenantcy . He always behaved well in all his service , which has been very long ; and , almost from his infancy , he has had the good - will , and even friendship , 28 1757 . THE ...
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... passing thoughts , no trace has been found.2 Several of these letters , written while Robertson's work was at press , have relation to minor historical questions , which have subsequently been settled . The following extracts are given ...
... passing thoughts , no trace has been found.2 Several of these letters , written while Robertson's work was at press , have relation to minor historical questions , which have subsequently been settled . The following extracts are given ...
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... passed in Queen Elizabeth's days , who , that has not the best opportunities of informing himself , could venture to relate any recent transactions ? I must , therefore , have abandoned altogether this scheme of the English history , in ...
... passed in Queen Elizabeth's days , who , that has not the best opportunities of informing himself , could venture to relate any recent transactions ? I must , therefore , have abandoned altogether this scheme of the English history , in ...
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... passed the evening in a company where he heard it extolled above all books in the world . The Duke of Argyle is more decisive than he uses to be in its favour . I suppose he either considers it as an exotic , or thinks the author will ...
... passed the evening in a company where he heard it extolled above all books in the world . The Duke of Argyle is more decisive than he uses to be in its favour . I suppose he either considers it as an exotic , or thinks the author will ...
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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.