Hume, Volume 7Macmillan, 1902 - 216 pages |
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... French wars of Henry V. and VI . and was killed at the battle of Verneuil . Joseph Hume died when David was an infant , leaving him- self and two elder children , a brother and a sister , to the care of their mother , who is described ...
... French wars of Henry V. and VI . and was killed at the battle of Verneuil . Joseph Hume died when David was an infant , leaving him- self and two elder children , a brother and a sister , to the care of their mother , who is described ...
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... French in 1753 , and again in 1754 , they conferred a European reputation upon their author ; and , what was more to the purpose , influenced the later French school of economists of the eighteenth century . By this time , Hume had not ...
... French in 1753 , and again in 1754 , they conferred a European reputation upon their author ; and , what was more to the purpose , influenced the later French school of economists of the eighteenth century . By this time , Hume had not ...
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... , he was appointed to the embassy ; with the promise of the secretaryship , and , in the mean- 1 Letter to Clephane , 3rd September , 1757 . while , performing the duties of that office . At D 2 11. ] 35 SECRETARY OF THE FRENCH EMBASSY .
... , he was appointed to the embassy ; with the promise of the secretaryship , and , in the mean- 1 Letter to Clephane , 3rd September , 1757 . while , performing the duties of that office . At D 2 11. ] 35 SECRETARY OF THE FRENCH EMBASSY .
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... French society , a new sensation was worth anything , and it mattered little whether the cause thereof was a philosopher or a poodle ; so Hume had a great success in the Parisian world . Great nobles fêted him , and great ladies were ...
... French society , a new sensation was worth anything , and it mattered little whether the cause thereof was a philosopher or a poodle ; so Hume had a great success in the Parisian world . Great nobles fêted him , and great ladies were ...
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... French and English . You cannot be much mistaken in transferring to the former most of the observa- tions which you have made with regard to the latter . Man- kind are so much the same , in all times and places , that history informs us ...
... French and English . You cannot be much mistaken in transferring to the former most of the observa- tions which you have made with regard to the latter . Man- kind are so much the same , in all times and places , that history informs us ...
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Page 138 - The original of them all, is that which we call SENSE, for there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath not at first, totally or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense.
Page 145 - So that, upon the whole, we may conclude that the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity. And whoever is moved by faith to assent to it is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person which subverts all the principles of his understanding and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
Page 122 - Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe.
Page 137 - Secondly, the other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception * of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without...
Page 131 - ... on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts that we took a wrong course, and that, before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with.
Page 203 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Page 124 - Believe it, my good friend, to love truth, for truth's sake, is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues ; and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as ever I met with in any body.
Page 79 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Page 177 - Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity to discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. If they find what they seek, and they seldom fail, they think it more wise to continue the prejudice, with the reason involved, than to cast away the coat of prejudice, and to leave nothing but the naked reason...
Page 57 - Tis evident that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and that however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. Even mathematics, natural philosophy, and natural religion are in some measure dependent on the science of man, since they lie under the cognizance of men and are judged of by their powers and faculties.