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Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume I (of 2)

By John Hill Burton

2019-10-08 18:05:10

Excerpt...........These lines will, in my opinion, come nothing short of the instruction of the finest sentence in Cicero: and is more to me, as Virgil's life is more the subject of my ambition, being what I can apprehend to be more within my power. ... Read more
Excerpt...........These lines will, in my opinion, come nothing short of the instruction of the finest sentence in Cicero: and is more to me, as Virgil's life is more the subject of my ambition, being what I can apprehend to be more within my power. For the perfectly wise man, that outbraves fortune, is surely greater than the husbandman who slips by her; and, indeed, this pastoral and saturnian happiness I have in a great measure come at just now. I live like a king, pretty much by myself, neither full of action nor perturbation,—molles somnos. Less

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File size769.281 KB
Print pages524
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2016-05-23
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1318062072
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John Hill Burton
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John Hill Burton FRSE was a Scottish advocate, historian and economist. The author of Life and Correspondence of David Hume, he was secretary of the Scottish Prison Board, and Historiographer Royal....

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