"David hume" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was ordered to be engrossed in the minutes of the French Academy. In 1755, on the recommendation of Pope Benedict XIV., he was admitted a member of the Institute of Bologna. A legacy of L. 200 from David Hume showed the esteem in which he was held by ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... on the other hand, has directly or indirectly contributed to form the diction of almost every great English writer, and has extorted the admiration of the most accomplished infidels and of the most accomplished nonconformists, of such men as David Hume ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... subject can best be answered by quoting in full the first paragraph of Chapter XVI of David Hume's ...
— At Ypres with Best-Dunkley • Thomas Hope Floyd
... feeling came forth with much point and humour on an occasion referred to in "Carlyle's Memoirs." In a company where John Home and David Hume were present, much wonder was expressed what could have induced a clerk belonging to Sir William Forbes' bank to abscond, and embezzle L900. "I know what it was," said Home to the historian; "for when he was taken there was found in his pocket a volume of your philosophical ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771), the novelist, came of a Dumbartonshire family. Rory was Roderick Random's schoolboy name. His companion was Strap. See Roderick Random, Chapter XIII., for the passage in question. Smollett continued the History of England of David Hume (1711-1776), also a Scotchman, and one of the authors whom Lamb could not read (see "Detached Thoughts on ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb |
