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Letters on Infidelity. ...: To which is Prefixed a Letter to Dr. Adam Smith.. - Page 28
by George Horne - 1786 - 335 pages
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A letter to Adam Smith LL.D. on the life, death, and philosophy of his ...

George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1777 - 66 pages
...of your concluding fentence, which therefore fhall be mine. '' I have always confidered '' Mr. HUME, both in his life" time, and fince his death, as "...the " idea of A PERFECTLY WISE *'AND VIRTUOUS MAN, 38 " perhaps the nature of human '' frailty will permit." THE END, .*;• ___ ...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 56

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1777 - 584 pages
...refpefl the moft comprehenfive. Upon the whole, I have always confidered him, both in his lifetime and fince his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wife and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.' %* There is a good engraving...
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the monthly review or literary journal

SEVERAL HANDS - 1777 - 590 pages
...the mod comprehenfive. Upon the whole, 1 have always considered him, both in hit lifetime and flnce his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wife and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.' * % * There is a good engraving...
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The Life of David Hume, Esq

David Hume, Adam Smith - 1777 - 138 pages
...the moft compreheafive. Upon the whole, I have always confrdesed him,, both in his lifetime and fiace his death^ as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wife and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit., I ever am, dear Sic, Mo&...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

James Boswell - 1785 - 546 pages
...letter which is publifhed * with all formality): " Upon the whole, I have V always confidered him, both in his life" time, and fince his death, as approaching as ?' nearly * This letter, though flialtered by the fharp fhot of Dr. Home of Oxford's. wit, in the character of...
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The Political Magazine and Parliamentary, Naval, Military, and ..., Volume 10

1785 - 522 pages
...formality] : '•' Upon the whole, 1 hnve always con AT dcred him, both in his life-time, and hncc his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wife and virtuous m>u as perhaps the nature nf human fraiity will pcimit." Let Dr. S.mith conGdcr:...
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Letters on Infidelity

George Horne - 1786 - 370 pages
...hiftorical, phi" lofophical, or literary, incomparably the " I have always confidered Mr. ** HUME, both in his life time, and " fince his death, as approaching...to the idea of A PERFECTLY " WISE AND VIRTUOUS MAN, 3S pCT" haps the nature of human frailty *' will permit." ON I NFIJDELITY. INTRODUCTORY LETTER. TO...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...\s. all formality :) ' Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his life time and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.' Let Dr. Smith consider: Was not Mr. Hume blest with...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the ..., Volume 1

David Hume - 1789 - 536 pages
...refpect the moft comprehenfive. Upon the whole, I have always confidered him, both in his lifetime and fince his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wife and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. I ever am, dear Sir, Moft...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ..., Volume 1

David Hume - 1789 - 452 pages
...the mod comprehenfive. Upon the whole, I have always confidered him, both in his lifetime and fmce his death , as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wife and virtuous man , as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. ' i I ever am, dear Sir,...
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