Name: Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume II (of 2)
Author: John Hill Burton
ISBN: 978-1313683883

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

By John Hill Burton 8 Oct, 2019

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Excerpt........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 fr ... Read more

Excerpt........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. Less

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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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