The Life of David HumeMossner's Life of David Hume remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer. First published in 1954, and updated in 1980, it is now reissued in paperback in response to increased interest in Hume. E. C. Mossner was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.'Mossner's work is a quite remarkable scholarly achievement; it will be an indispensable tool for Hume scholars and a treasure-trove of information for all students of the intellectual and literary history of the eighteenth century' Richard H. Popkin in the Philological Quarterly |
Contents
STUDENT DAYS AT EDINBURGH | 35 |
LAW VERSUS LITERATURE | 52 |
DISEASE OF THE LEARNED | 66 |
RECOVERY THROUGH CATHARSIS | 81 |
TRANQUILLITY IN FRANCE | 92 |
FEVER OF PUBLICATION | 106 |
A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE | 117 |
ESSAYS MORAL AND POLITICAL | 134 |
FOUR DISSERTATIONS | 319 |
DRUM ECCLESIASTIC | 336 |
SCOTLANDS AUGUSTANS | 370 |
THE INDIFFERENCE OF ENGLAND | 390 |
SCOTLAND FOR EVER? | 409 |
THE CALL OF FRANCE | 423 |
THE ADULATION OF FRANCE | 441 |
THE COMTESSE DE BOUFFLERS | 456 |
ACADEMIC ILLUSION | 155 |
THE UNFORTUNATE TUTOR | 167 |
SPECTATOR TO A REBELLION | 181 |
A MILITARY CAMPAIGN | 187 |
A MILITARY EMBASSY | 205 |
ACHIEVEMENT OF AMBITION | 223 |
LEISURE AND LAUGHTER | 232 |
CITIZEN OF EDINBURGH | 240 |
POLITICAL DISCOURSES | 257 |
PAX ECCLESIASTICA | 272 |
THE OPPOSITION GATHERS | 286 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND | 301 |
THE PHILOSOPHES | 475 |
EMBASSY SECRETARY | 489 |
JEANJACQUES ROUSSEAU | 507 |
UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE | 533 |
AUTUMNAL SERENITY | 559 |
DISTURBERS OF THE PEACE | 577 |
DEATH COMES FOR THE PHILOSOPHER | 589 |
THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE | 604 |
A Humes My Own Life | 611 |
Rankenian Club | 617 |
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