Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 2

Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 2

Transcriber's Notes: Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. Ellipses match the original. Greek words that may not display correctly in all browsers are transliterated in the text like this: . Position your mouse over the line to see the transliteration. The second volume of the History of the StuartsHis Apologies for his Treatment of ReligionThe Four DissertationsThe Two Suppressed DissertationsResigns his Office of LibrarianHome's DouglasCommences the History of the TudorsWilkie's EpigoniadHume's NationalismWarburtonColonel EdmondstouneDr. RobertsonNegotiations as to Ferguson's ChairHume goes to LondonWrites letters of Fictitious and Extravagant NewsSmith's Theory of Moral SentimentsPublication of the History of the House of TudorGeneral View of the Constitutional Principles of the History. We have now followed the personal history of David Hume through nearly twenty years of authorship. We have seen him approach the tribunal of public opinion with the strongest internal assurance of success, and in a form so different from that of his predecessors, as a high reliance on his own powers could alone have prompted. Baffled in the first, and in the second, and in the third attempt, he still persevered; and while the coldness of each reception showed him that his last effort had proved a failure, it never extinguished the fire of literary ardour which he felt burning within him, or quenched the hope, that it would one day blaze forth before the world. It is only towards the termination of this long period of laborious authorship that we find the [2]philosopher's early visions of intellectual greatness beginning to be fulfilled. At the period at which we have now arrived, his name was famous over Europe. It was a fame that, once spread abroad, was not soon to die; for those to whom his name was first made known in his new popular work, speedily discovered that, in his earliest neglected effort, he had laid the foundation of a still surer claim on their admiration, and justified the sagacity with which, in the pride and strength of youthful genius, he had thrown its first fruits before the world unaided and unadvised. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 42844
Author: Burton, John Hill
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Format: eBook
Language: English