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- catalog abstract "This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays, Moral, and Literary, that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons. The two most important were deemed too controversial for the religious climate of his time. This revised edition reflects changes based on further comparisons with eighteenth-century texts and an extensive reworking of the index. - Publisher.".
- catalog contributor b749666.
- catalog contributor b749667.
- catalog contributor b749668.
- catalog created "c1987.".
- catalog date "1987".
- catalog date "c1987.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1987.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Part I. Of the delicacy of taste and passion -- Of the liberty of the press -- That politics may be reduced to a science -- Of the first principles of government -- Of the origin of government -- Of the independency of Parliament -- Whether the British government inclines more to absolute monarchy, or to a republic -- Of parties in general -- Of the parties of Great Britain -- Of superstition and enthusiasm -- Of the dignity or meanness of human nature -- Of civil liberty -- Of eloquence -- Of the rise and progress of the arts and sciences -- The Epicurean -- The Stoic -- The Platonist -- The Sceptic -- Of polygamy and divorces -- Of simplicity and refinement in writing -- Of national characters -- Of tragedy -- Of the standard of taste -- Part II. Of commerce -- Of refinement in the arts -- Of money -- Of interest -- Of the balance of the trade -- Of the jealousy of the trade -- Of the balance of power -- Of taxes -- Of public credit -- Of some remarkable customs -- Of the populousness of ancient nations -- Of the original contract -- Of passive obedience -- Of the coalition of parties -- Of the Protestant succession -- Idea of a perfect commonwealth -- Essays withdrawn and unpublished. Of essay-writing -- Of moral prejudices -- Of the middle station of life -- Of impudence and modesty -- Of love and marriage -- Of the study of history -- Of avarice -- A character of Sir Robert Walpole -- Of suicide -- Of the immortality of the soul.".
- catalog description "This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays, Moral, and Literary, that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons. The two most important were deemed too controversial for the religious climate of his time. This revised edition reflects changes based on further comparisons with eighteenth-century texts and an extensive reworking of the index. - Publisher.".
- catalog extent "xlix, 683 p., [2] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Essays, moral, political, and literary.".
- catalog identifier "0865970556 :".
- catalog identifier "0865970564 (pbk.) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Essays, moral, political, and literary.".
- catalog issued "1987".
- catalog issued "c1987.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Indianapolis : Liberty Fund,".
- catalog relation "Essays, moral, political, and literary.".
- catalog subject "192 19".
- catalog subject "B1475 1985b".
- catalog subject "Ethics, Modern 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Political science Early works to 1800.".
- catalog subject "Social ethics Early works to 1800.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I. Of the delicacy of taste and passion -- Of the liberty of the press -- That politics may be reduced to a science -- Of the first principles of government -- Of the origin of government -- Of the independency of Parliament -- Whether the British government inclines more to absolute monarchy, or to a republic -- Of parties in general -- Of the parties of Great Britain -- Of superstition and enthusiasm -- Of the dignity or meanness of human nature -- Of civil liberty -- Of eloquence -- Of the rise and progress of the arts and sciences -- The Epicurean -- The Stoic -- The Platonist -- The Sceptic -- Of polygamy and divorces -- Of simplicity and refinement in writing -- Of national characters -- Of tragedy -- Of the standard of taste -- Part II. Of commerce -- Of refinement in the arts -- Of money -- Of interest -- Of the balance of the trade -- Of the jealousy of the trade -- Of the balance of power -- Of taxes -- Of public credit -- Of some remarkable customs -- Of the populousness of ancient nations -- Of the original contract -- Of passive obedience -- Of the coalition of parties -- Of the Protestant succession -- Idea of a perfect commonwealth -- Essays withdrawn and unpublished. Of essay-writing -- Of moral prejudices -- Of the middle station of life -- Of impudence and modesty -- Of love and marriage -- Of the study of history -- Of avarice -- A character of Sir Robert Walpole -- Of suicide -- Of the immortality of the soul.".
- catalog title "Essays, moral, political, and literary / David Hume ; edited and with a foreword, notes, and glossary by Eugene F. Miller ; with an apparatus of variant readings from the 1889 edition by T.H. Green and T.H. Grose.".
- catalog type "Early works. fast".
- catalog type "text".