Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North WalesHarper, 1904 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... Hume at an assembly , boldly accosted him in these words : " Mr. Hume , give me leave to introduce myself to you ; we deists ought to know each other . " ' Madame , " replied Hume , " I am no deist . I do not style myself so , neither ...
... Hume at an assembly , boldly accosted him in these words : " Mr. Hume , give me leave to introduce myself to you ; we deists ought to know each other . " ' Madame , " replied Hume , " I am no deist . I do not style myself so , neither ...
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... Hume's notion ' , that all who are happy are equally happy ; a little miss with a new gown at a dancing - school ... Hume , by the Rev- erend Mr. Robert Brown ' , at Utrecht . ' A small drinking- Hume , ii . 181. There was no deist , I ...
... Hume's notion ' , that all who are happy are equally happy ; a little miss with a new gown at a dancing - school ... Hume , by the Rev- erend Mr. Robert Brown ' , at Utrecht . ' A small drinking- Hume , ii . 181. There was no deist , I ...
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... Hume said of the evidence in favour of second - sight : — ' As finite added to finite never approaches a hair's breadth nearer to infi- nite , so a fact incredible in itself acquires not the smallest accession of probability by the ...
... Hume said of the evidence in favour of second - sight : — ' As finite added to finite never approaches a hair's breadth nearer to infi- nite , so a fact incredible in itself acquires not the smallest accession of probability by the ...
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... Hume a few weeks before this conversation was held , and was at this time in Chiswick . Hume's Private Corres . pp . 125 , 145 . 2 Rousseau had by this time published his Nouvelle Héloïse and Emile . " Less than three months after the ...
... Hume a few weeks before this conversation was held , and was at this time in Chiswick . Hume's Private Corres . pp . 125 , 145 . 2 Rousseau had by this time published his Nouvelle Héloïse and Emile . " Less than three months after the ...
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... Hume , Johnson , Gold- smith , Garrick , Horace Walpole , Wilkes , and perhaps Reynolds , among Englishmen . He had twice at least received a letter from the Earl of Chatham . ' In such passages as this we may generally assume that the ...
... Hume , Johnson , Gold- smith , Garrick , Horace Walpole , Wilkes , and perhaps Reynolds , among Englishmen . He had twice at least received a letter from the Earl of Chatham . ' In such passages as this we may generally assume that the ...
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