Life and Correspondence of David Hume Volume 1 download
Life and Correspondence of David Hume Volume 1 download
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Author: John Hill Burton
Page Count: 146 pages
Published Date: 12 Sep 2013
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781230405957
File Name: Life.and.Correspondence.of.David.Hume.Volume.1.pdf
Download Link: Life and Correspondence of David Hume Volume 1
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... The work of the elder Mirabeau in particular -- L'Ami des Hommes, was in a great measure a controversial examination of Hume's opinions on population. CHAPTER IX. 1752--1755. JEt. 41--44. Appointment as keeper of the Advocates' Library--His Duties--Commences the History of England -- Correspondence with Adam Smith and others on the History--Generosity to Blacklock the Poet--Quarrel with the Faculty of Advocates -- Publication of the First Volume of the History -- Its reception --Continues the History--Controversial and Polemical attacks -- Attempt to subject him, along with Kames, to the Discipline of Ecclesiastical Courts -- The Leader of the attack--Home's " Douglas"--The first Edinburgh Review. "In 1752," says Hume in his " own life," "the Faculty of Advocates chose me their librarian, an office from which I received little or no emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library."1 We have a very glowing account of the contest for this appointment from his own pen in the following letter: 1 The appointment is thus recorded in theminutes of the Faculty of Advocates. U28thjanuaryt 1752. "The Faculty proceeded to the choice of a keeper of their library, in place of the said Mr. Thomas Ruddiman; and some members proposed that a dignified member of their own body, viz. Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, Advocate, Professor of the Civil Law in the University of Edinburgh, should be named to that office, and others inclining that Mr. David Hume should be elected, it was agreed that the matter should be put to a vote. And the rolls being called, and votes distinctly marked and taken down and numbered, it was found that the majority had declared for the latter; upon which, the Dean and Faculty declared the said Mr. David Hume duly elected..."
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Life and Correspondence of David Hume Volume 1. John Hill Burton
Author: John Hill Burton
Page Count: 146 pages
Published Date: 12 Sep 2013
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781230405957
File Name: Life.and.Correspondence.of.David.Hume.Volume.1.pdf
Download Link: Life and Correspondence of David Hume Volume 1
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... The work of the elder Mirabeau in particular -- L'Ami des Hommes, was in a great measure a controversial examination of Hume's opinions on population. CHAPTER IX. 1752--1755. JEt. 41--44. Appointment as keeper of the Advocates' Library--His Duties--Commences the History of England -- Correspondence with Adam Smith and others on the History--Generosity to Blacklock the Poet--Quarrel with the Faculty of Advocates -- Publication of the First Volume of the History -- Its reception --Continues the History--Controversial and Polemical attacks -- Attempt to subject him, along with Kames, to the Discipline of Ecclesiastical Courts -- The Leader of the attack--Home's " Douglas"--The first Edinburgh Review. "In 1752," says Hume in his " own life," "the Faculty of Advocates chose me their librarian, an office from which I received little or no emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library."1 We have a very glowing account of the contest for this appointment from his own pen in the following letter: 1 The appointment is thus recorded in theminutes of the Faculty of Advocates. U28thjanuaryt 1752. "The Faculty proceeded to the choice of a keeper of their library, in place of the said Mr. Thomas Ruddiman; and some members proposed that a dignified member of their own body, viz. Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, Advocate, Professor of the Civil Law in the University of Edinburgh, should be named to that office, and others inclining that Mr. David Hume should be elected, it was agreed that the matter should be put to a vote. And the rolls being called, and votes distinctly marked and taken down and numbered, it was found that the majority had declared for the latter; upon which, the Dean and Faculty declared the said Mr. David Hume duly elected..."
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