Author: Thomas Edward Ritchie Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781334953118 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 532
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Excerpt from An Account of the Life and Writings of David Hume, Esq. IN the following work I have introduced Mr. Hume's epifiolary correfpondence into the narrative, infiead of relegating it to the appendix. The letter: of a man, eminent for his learning and talents, form an interefting part of his biography; yet, when a collection of them is given without any connet'ling detail, every one mull feel, that their value is confiderably diminifhed: few indeed have perfeverance to perule them. By the plan I have adopted, the volume fiill remains the fame in point of fize; but the reader be comes progre ively acquainted with the lite rary conneetions of Mr. Hume, the habits of him and his friends, and numberlefs traits in their characters, which could not be eafily or advantageou y compre 'ed into hi ory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author: Robert McCrum Publisher: ISBN: 9781903385838 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 0
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Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Author: Robert Case Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1666706426 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 195
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David Hume (1711-1776) swam in the eighteenth-century philosophic waters created and dominated by Scottish Presbyterian thought and politics. Robert Case argues that this reformed environment is expressed, however inchoately, in much of what Hume wrote. Hume's eighteenth-century views on experience, customs, and common life provide a viable social and political framework for American contemporary life. If the New Testament writer Jude marinated his theological thoughts in the midst of the prevailing Jewish culture of his day in order to arrive at the inspired narrative of his little book, and if the American founding fathers can be said to establish a "Christian" nation, however that is defined, David Hume can be said to have been greatly influenced by the Scottish political and theological pieties of John Knox (1513-1572), Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661) and their successors. Into our post-Christian culture, David Hume's notion of the power of custom offers a non-religious-based society as an alternative for securing stable, secure, and satisfying social relationships and structures in which Christianity can flourish. Robert Case's principal objective is to show how Hume's ambassadorial task of straddling the world of the academy and the world of the main street is relevant for today's American post-Christian evangelical mindset.
Author: Thomas Edward Ritchie
Author: Thomas Edward Ritchie
Author: David Hume
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Author: Robert McCrum
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Author: Robert Case