The Life of David Hume, EsqV. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777 - 62 pages Letter relating to Hume's last illness and death from Adam Smith to William Strahan. |
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... temper , that these disappoint- ments made little or no impref- fion , on me . I went down in 1749 , and lived two years with my brother at his country - house , for my mother was now dead . I there composed the second part of my Essays ...
... temper , that these disappoint- ments made little or no impref- fion , on me . I went down in 1749 , and lived two years with my brother at his country - house , for my mother was now dead . I there composed the second part of my Essays ...
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... temper , I have easily kept myself clear of all literary squabbles . These symptoms of a rifing reputation gave me encouragement , as I was ever more disposed to fee the favourable than unfavourable fide of things ; a turn of mind which ...
... temper , I have easily kept myself clear of all literary squabbles . These symptoms of a rifing reputation gave me encouragement , as I was ever more disposed to fee the favourable than unfavourable fide of things ; a turn of mind which ...
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... temper so perfectly friendly and affectionate . As I had written to my mother that she might ex- pect me in Scotland , I was un- der the neceffity of continuing my journey . His disease seemed to yield to exercise and change of air ...
... temper so perfectly friendly and affectionate . As I had written to my mother that she might ex- pect me in Scotland , I was un- der the neceffity of continuing my journey . His disease seemed to yield to exercise and change of air ...
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... of fome of the " prevailing systems of supersti- " tion . " But Charon would then lose all temper and decency . " You loitering rogue , that will " not happen these many hun- " dred * dred years . Do you fancy I " will 50 LETTER FROM.
... of fome of the " prevailing systems of supersti- " tion . " But Charon would then lose all temper and decency . " You loitering rogue , that will " not happen these many hun- " dred * dred years . Do you fancy I " will 50 LETTER FROM.
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... temper , indeed , seemed to be more happily balanced , if I may be allowed such an expref- fion , than that perhaps of any other man I have ever known . Even in the lowest state of his fortune , fortune , his great and necessary ...
... temper , indeed , seemed to be more happily balanced , if I may be allowed such an expref- fion , than that perhaps of any other man I have ever known . Even in the lowest state of his fortune , fortune , his great and necessary ...
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Page 33 - I have lived to see this world is made up of perturbations ; and I have been long preparing to leave it, and gathering comfort for the dreadful hour of making my account with God, which I now apprehend to be near...
Page 12 - I had always entertained a notion, that my want of success in publishing the Treatise of Human Nature, had proceeded more from the manner than the matter, and that I had been guilty of a very usual indiscretion, in going to the press too early. I therefore cast the first part of that work anew in the Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, which was published while I was at Turin. But this piece was at first little more successful than the Treatise of Human Nature.
Page 62 - 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.
Page 6 - I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when after three or four hours...
Page 48 - He said that he felt that satisfaction so sensibly, that when he was reading a few days before, Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead, among all the excuses which are alleged to Charon for not entering readily into his boat, he could not find one that fitted him; he had no house to finish, he had no daughter to provide for, he had no enemies upon whom he wished to revenge himself. 'I could not well imagine,' said he, 'what excuse I could make to Charon in order to obtain a little delay.
Page 32 - To conclude historically with my own character. I am, or rather was, — for that is the style I must now use in speaking of myself, which emboldens me the more to speak my sentiments; — I was, I say, a man of mild dispositions...
Page 6 - I went over to France with a view of prosecuting my studies in a country retreat ; and I there laid that plan of life which I have steadily and successfully pursued. I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible, except the improvement of my talents in literature.
Page 22 - But though I had been taught, by experience, that the Whig party were in possession of bestowing all places, both in the state and in literature, I was so little inclined to yield to their senseless...
Page 34 - ... to complain of calumny, I never was touched, or even attacked by her baleful tooth : and though I wantonly...
Page 34 - And therefore, where I have failed, Lord, shew mercy to me; for I plead not my righteousness, but the forgiveness of my unrighteousness, for His merits, who died to purchase pardon for penitent sinners. And since I owe thee a death, Lord, let it not be terrible, and then take thine own time: I submit to it: let not mine, O Lord! but let thy will be done.