The life of David Hume / Ernest Campbell Mossner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mossner, Ernest Campbell, 1907-1986, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hume, David, 1711-1776.

Hume, David.

Philosophers--Scotland--Biography.

Philosophers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 709 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 1980.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'The Life of David Hume' remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer, first published in 1954, and updated in 1980.

Contents:

1. Man of letters; 2. The Humes of Ninewells; 3. Boyhood at Ninewells; 4. Student days at Edinburgh; 5. Law versus literature; 6. Disease of the learned; 7. Recovery through catharsis; 8. Tranquillity in France; 9. Fever of publication; 10. A treatise of human nature; 11. Essays moral and political; 12. Academic illusion; 13. The unfortunate tutor; 14. Spectator to a rebellion; 15. A military campaign; 16. A military embassy; 17. Achievement of ambition; 18. Leisure and

Laughter; 19. Citizen of Edinburgh; 20. Political discourses; 21. Pax ecclesiastica; 22. The opposition gathers; 23. The history of england; 24. Four dissertations; 25. Drum ecclesiastic; 26. The bard and the church; 27. Scotland's augustans; 28. The indifference of England; 29. Scotland for ever?; 30. The call of France; 31. The adulation of France; 32. The Comtesse de Boufflers; 33. The Philosophes; 34. Embassy secretary; 35. Jean-Jacques Rousseau; 36. Under-secretary

Of state; 37. Autumnal serenity; 38. Disturbers of the peace; 39. Death comes for the philosopher; 40. The dignity of human nature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.