Author:David Hume (1711-1776)

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David Hume
(1711–1776)

Portrait by Allan Ramsay

Works

• A kind of history of my life (1734)
• Treatise of Human Nature (1739)
• Essays, Moral and Political (1741)
• Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
• An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)
  • also 1912 printing (transcription project)
• Political Discourses (1752)
• The History of England (1754-62)
• Four Dissertations (1757)
  • I. The Natural History of Religion
  • II. Of the Passions
  • III. Of Tragedy
  • IV. Of the Standard of Taste
• Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, (1758, 2 vols.)
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779)
• The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution of 1688 (1840) IA
• The Life of David Hume, Esq. (1777)
• Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects (1753–1756, 4 vols.)
  • "Of Polygamy and Divorces"
• Life and correspondence of David Hume (1846) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

Works about Hume

Books

• Hume (1886), by William Angus Knight (external scan)
• Hume (1887), by Thomas Henry Huxley (external scan)
• David Hume (1898), by Henry Calderwood (external scan)

Encyclopedia articles

• "Hume, David (1711-1776)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Hume, David," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Hume, David," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Other works

• Anonymous (1777)—A Letter to Adam Smith LL.D. on the Life, Death, and Philosophy of his friend David Hume Esq.. Oxford : At the Clarendon Press.