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LIFE AND

CORRESPONDENCE OF

DAVID HUME.
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bust of David Hume
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LIFE

  AND

  CORRESPONDENCE

  OF

  DAVID HUME.
FROM THE PAPERS BEQUEATHED BY HIS NEPHEW TO THE
  ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; AND OTHER
  ORIGINAL SOURCES.
By JOHN HILL BURTON, Esq.
  ADVOCATE.
VOLUME II.
EDINBURGH:
  WILLIAM TAIT, 107, PRINCE'S STREET.
  MDCCCXLVI.
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EDINBURGH:
  Printed by William Tait, 107, Prince's Street.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME SECOND.
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ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. II.
Portrait of Hume from a Bust,Frontispiece.
Fac simile of a page of the History of England,Page 79
Fac simile of a letter from Rousseau,326
CHAPTER X.
1756-1759. Æt. 45-48.
The second volume of the History of the Stuarts—His Apologies for hisTreatment of Religion—The Four Dissertations—The Two SuppressedDissertations—Resigns his Office of Librarian—Home'sDouglas—Commences the History of the Tudors—Wilkie's Epigoniad—Hume'sNationalism—Warburton—Colonel Edmondstoune—Dr.Robertson—Negotiations as to Ferguson's Chair—Hume goes toLondon—Writes Letters of Fictitious and Extravagant News—Smith'sTheory of Moral Sentiments—Publication of the History ofthe House of Tudor—General View of the Constitutional Principlesof the History.1