ESSAYS
MORAL, POLITICAL,
AND LITERARY
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Facsimile title and part title pages from Volume I of Hume: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, London 1777, courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
This eBook edition published in 2013.
eBook ISBNs:
978-1-61487-098-2
978-1-61487-216-0
CONTENTS
Letter from Adam Smith, LL.D. to William Strahan, Esq.
I Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion
II Of the Liberty of the Press
III That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science
IV Of the First Principles of Government
VI Of the Independency of Parliament
VII Whether the British Government Inclines More to Absolute Monarchy, or to a Republic
IX Of the Parties of Great Britain
X Of Superstition and Enthusiasm
XI Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature
XIV Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences
XX Of Simplicity and Refinement in Writing
