THE
PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS
OF
DAVID HUME.
INCLUDING ALL THE ESSAYS, AND EXHIBITING THE
MORE IMPORTANT ALTERATIONS AND CORRECTIONS
IN THE SUCCESSIVE EDITIONS PUBLISHED
BY THE AUTHOR.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR ADAM BLACK AND WILLIAM TAIT;
AND CHARLES TAIT, 63, FLEET STREET,
LONDON.
MDCCCXXVI.
Allan Ramsey pinx.—Robert Grace Sculp.—David Hume
ADVERTISEMENT.
The Philosophical Writings of Mr Hume are here for the first timecollected in a uniform edition. The Essays are reprinted from theEdition of 1777, in two octavo volumes, corrected by the Author forthe press, a short time before his death, and which he desired mightbe regarded as containing his philosophical principles. The text ofthat Edition has been faithfully adhered to in the present; but asit has been thought an interesting object of curiosity, to trace thesuccessive variations of sentiment and taste in a mind like that ofHume, and to mark the gradual and most observable increase of cautionin his expression of those sentiments, it has been the care of thepresent Editor to compare the former Editions, of which a List ishere subjoined, and where any alterations were discovered, not merelyverbal, but illustrative of the philosophical opinions of the author,to add these as Notes to the passages where they occur.
The Essays contained in the early Editions, but which were omittedin that of 1777, will be found at the end of the last volume of thepresent Collection of his Works, together with the Two Essays, onSuicide, and the Immortality of the Soul.
In addition to the Author's Life, written by himself, the Accountof the Controversy with M. Rousseau has also been prefixed. It wasoriginally printed in French, and shortly afterwards in English, in theyear 1766. The English translation was superintended by Mr Hume; and asit relates to an extraordinary occurrence in the Lives of these eminentphilosophers, has been thought a suitable appendage to the short Memoirof himself.
EDINBURGH,
JUNE 1825.
EDITIONS OF THE ESSAYS COLLATED AND REFERRED TO.
Essays, Moral and Political. Edinburgh, Kincaid, 1741.12mo. (A)
Essays, Moral and Political, Vol. II. Edinburgh, Kincaid,1742. 12mo. pp. 105. (B)
Essays, Moral and Political, 2d Edition, corrected.Edinburgh, Kincaid, 1742. 12mo. pp. 189. (C)
Essays, Moral and Political. By D. Hume, Esq. 3d Edition,corrected, with additions. London, Millar, 1748. 12mo. (D)
Three Essays, Moral and Political, never before published,which completes the former Edition, in two volumes octavo.By D. Hume, Esq. London, Millar, 1748. 12mo. (E)
Political Discourses. By D. Hume, Esq. Edinburgh, Kincaid,1752. Small 8vo. To this Edition there is sometimes added'a List of Scotticisms.' (F)
Political Discourses. By D. Hume, Esq. 2d Edition.Edinburgh, Kincaid, 1752. 12mo. Merely a reprint of thepreceding. (G)
Essays and Treatises on several Subjects. By D. Hume, Esq
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