ESSAYS
MORAL, POLITICAL,
AND LITERARY
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Facsimile title and part title pages from Volume I of Hume: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, London 1777, courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
This eBook edition published in 2013.
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CONTENTS
Letter from Adam Smith, LL.D. to William Strahan, Esq.
I Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion
II Of the Liberty of the Press
III That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science
IV Of the First Principles of Government
VI Of the Independency of Parliament
VII Whether the British Government Inclines More to Absolute Monarchy, or to a Republic
IX Of the Parties of Great Britain
X Of Superstition and Enthusiasm
XI Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature
XIV Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences
XX Of Simplicity and Refinement in Writing
XXIII Of the Standard of Taste
XI Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations
XIV Of the Coalition of Parties