Estimates
of some Englishmen and Scotchmen: E.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
A.
, and
Notes by Guizot, F. P. G. , 13 vols. , Paris, 1812; 3rd edn, 1828–9.
Geschichte des Verfalls und Untergangs des Römischen Reiches. Übers.
und mit einigen Anm. herausg. von Wenck, Friedrich August Wilhelm.
19 vols. 1779. 2nd edn. 1820.
German translation of c. XLIV by Hugo, G. H. under the title:
Gibbon's Übersicht des römischen Rechts. Göttingen, 1789.
Istoria della Decadenza e Rovina dell'Imperio Romano. Trans. by Fabbroni
and Foggi, vols. 1-IX. Pisa, 1779–86. [Vol. x, though printed, was never
published. ]
e
&
(2) Adversaria, etc.
Apthorpe, East. Letters on the Prevalence of Christianity before its Civil
Establishment; with Observations on the late History of the Decline
of the Roman Empire. 1778.
Burgh, William. An Enquiry into the Belief of the Christians of the first
three centuries respecting the one Godhead. York, 1778.
(Chelsum, James. ) Remarks on the two last Chapters of Mr Gibbon's
History, etc. , in a Letter to a Friend. 1776. Rptd in an enlarged form,
with the author's name, Oxford, 1778. [Chelsum was assisted in his
task by Thomas Randolph. ]
A Reply to Mr Gibbon's Vindication. Winchester, 1785.
Davis, Henry Edwards. An Examination of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Chapters of Mr Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall, etc. In which
his view of the Progress of the Christian Religion is shewn to be founded
on the Misrepresentation of the authors he cites: and Numerous In-
stances of his Inaccuracy and Plagiarism are produced. 1778.
Edwards, Thomas. The Jewish and Heathen Rejection of the Christian
Miracles. Preached before the University of Cambridge. March 7,
1790.
Hailes, Lord (Sir David Dalrymple). An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes
which Mr Gibbon has assigned for the Rapid Growth of Christianity.
1786.
Loftus, Smyth. A Reply to the Reasonings of Mr Gibbon, etc. Dublin,
1778.
Milner, Joseph. Gibbon's Account of Christianity considered; together
with some Strictures on Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion.
1781.
Priestley, Joseph. An History of the Corruptions of Christianity. 1782.
[The challenge to Gibbon is in Part 1 of the General Conclusion. ]
Randolph, Thomas (President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford). The
Proof of the Christian Religion drawn from its Successful and Speedy
Propagation, etc. In two sermons. Oxford, 1777. [Against Gibbon's
chap. xv. ]
Taylor, Henry. Thoughts on the Nature of the Grand Apostacy, with Re-
flections and Observations on the XVth Chapter of Mr Gibbon's History
of the Decline and Fall, etc. 1781.
- Further Thoughts, etc. 1783.
I
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Travis, George (archdeacon). Letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq. , author of
the History of the Decline and Fall, etc. Chester, 1785. 3rd edn (enlarged).
1794.
Porson, Richard. Letters to Archdeacon Travis in Answer to Defence
of the Three Heavenly Witnesses. The Gentleman's Magazine,
1788-9. Rptd 1790, and with an additional letter (or this only ? )
in Porson's Tracts and Miscellaneous Criticisms. Ed. Kidd, T.
1815.
Watson, Richard (bishop of Llandaff). An Apology for Christianity in a
Series of Letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq. 1776.
· Two Apologies, one for Christianity in a series of letters addressed to
Edward Gibbon, Esq. , 1776, the other for the Bible, in answer to Thomas
Paine, etc. , 1805.
Whitaker, John. Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire, in vols. iv, v and vi quarto, reviewed. 1791. [Originally pub-
lished in The English Review. ]
White, Joseph. Sermons containing a View of Christianity and Mahome-
tanism, in their history, their evidence and their effects, preached before
the University of Oxford. Bampton Lectures, 1784. 3rd edn. 1789.
Gibbon, Edward. A Vindication of Some Passages in the XVth and XVIth
Chapters of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
By the Author. 1779. (Rptd in Misc. Works, vol. iv. )
C. Other Writings (including Memoirs and Letters)
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, with Memoirs of his Life and
Writings Composed by Himself. Ed. John, Lord Sheffield. Vols. I
and 11, 1796 ; vol. 111, 1814; new edn, 5 vols. , 1814. (Vol. 1: Memoirs and
Letters; vol. 11: Letters; vol. 111: Historical and Critical; vol. iv: Classical
and Critical; vol. v: Miscellaneous. ]
(1) Memoirs and Letters
Autobiographies, the, of Edward Gibbon. Printed verbatim from hitherto
unpublished MSS, with an introduction by the Earl of Sheffield. Ed.
Murray, John. 1896. Contains (though in different order):
A. The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon, with various observa-
tions and excursions by himself. Written in 1788-9, but only giving
particulars of his family.
B. My own Life. Written in 1789–90, and ending in April 1764.
C. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon ; written in
1789-90, and brought down to October 1772.
D. Memoirs (without title); written in 1790-1, and brought down to
October 1772.
E. My Own Life; dated at end 'Lausanne, March 2, 1791, and
ending with the death of Deyverdun in July 1789; with notes added in
1792-3.
F. Memoirs (without title); written in 1792-3, but only brought down
to the date of Gibbon's leaving Oxford in June, 1753. [Described by
Murray as the latest and most perfect. A fragment of headings from
June 1753 to April 1758, with two pages on ancestry, containing the
famous passage on Tom Jones and the house of Austria. ]
Life, the, of Edward Gibbon, Esq. , With Selections from his Correspondence,
and illustrations by Milman, H. H. 1839. [The Memoirs, divided into
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chapters, with extracts from the Journals, and selected Letters to Lord
Sheffield and others. ]
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753–1794). With an Introduction by
the Earl of Sheffield. Ed. by Prothero, Rowland E. 2 vols. 1896.
Memoirs, the, of the Life of Edward Gibbon, with various Observations and
Excursions by himself. Ed. Hill, George Birkbeck. 1900. [Contains
ample notes, and in the appendix, valuable excursuses. ]
(2) Other Writings
Antiquities of the House of Brunswick. Miscellaneous Works, vol. III.
1814.
Essai sur l'Étude de la Littérature. 1761. Rptd in Miscellaneous Works,
vol. iv.
Mémoire justificatif pour servir de réponse à l'Exposé, etc. , de la Cour de
France. 1779. [Published anonymously. ] Rptd in Miscellaneous Works,
vol. v, 1814.
Mémoires Littéraires de la Grande-Bretagne. 2 vols. 1767-8. [Ed. by
Gibbon and Deyverdun, George. ] Rptd in Miscellaneous Works, vol. iv,
1814.
Observations on the Design of the VIth Book of the Aeneid. Rptd in Mis-
cellaneous Works, vol. iv.
D. Biography and Criticism
(Writings not previously mentioned under B)
Adeane, Jane H. The Girlhood of Maria Josepha Holroyd (Lady Stanley
of Alderley), recorded in letters. Ed. J. H. A. 1896. [She was the
daughter of Gibbon's chief friend, the first Lord Sheffield. ]
See, also, Adeane, Jane H. , The Early Married Life of Maria Josepha,
Lady Stanley, 1899.
Bagehot, W.
Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen: E. Gibbon.
1858.
Morison, James Cotter. Gibbon. (English Men of Letters series. ) 1878.
Proceedings of the Gibbon Commemoration, 1794-1894. Royal Historical
Society. 1895. [Contains Introductory Speech of Sir Mountstuart Grant
Duff, Address by Frederic Harrison, and Catalogue of the Exhibition at
the British Museum of Autograph Memoirs, Journals and Notebooks,
Correspondence, Early Impressions, Relics and Portraits. ]
Read, General Meredith. Historic Studies in Vaud, Berne and Savoy, from
Roman Times to Voltaire, Rousseau and Gibbon. 2 vols. 1897. [See vol. 11
for much about Gibbon and the relics of him at Lausanne and elsewhere. ]
Smith, James. Junius Unveiled. 1909. (An unconvincing attempt to prove
that Gibbon was Junius. ]
II. OTHER WRITERS ON ANCIENT HISTORY
See bibliography to chap. XII, ante.
Hooke, Nathaniel (d. 1673). Roman History, from the Building of Rome
to the Ruin of the Commonwealth. 4 vols. 1738-71.
For titles of a series of dissertations by Hooke on the Roman Senate
see art. Hooke, Nathaniel, in Dictionary of National Biography,
vol. XXVII.
Middleton, Conyers. The History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero.
2 vols. 1741.
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Middleton, Conyers. The Miscellaneous Works. 4 vols. 1752. 2nd edn.
5 vols. 1755. [Contains, besides the Life of Cicero:]
A Dissertation concerning the Origin of Printing. 1735.
The Epistles of M. T. Cicero to M. Brutus, and of Brutus to Cicero.
With English notes and a prefatory dissertation. 1743.
A Treatise on the Roman Senate. 1746–7.
See, also, bibliography to vol. ix, chap. XII.
Mitford, William. The History of Greece. 10 vols. 1784-1810. New edn.
10 vols. 1819-20.
Macaulay, Lord. Review of the above. In Knight's Quarterly Mag-
azine for November 1824. Rptd in Miscellaneous Writings, vol. 1,
1860.
Memoir, by the author's brother, Lord Redesdale. In History of
Greece. 8 vols. 1829. Revised by King, W.
Whitaker, John. The Course of Hannibal over the Alps ascertained. 2 vols.
1784.
Tytler, Alexander Fraser (Lord Woodhouselee). A Critical Examina
tion of the above. 1794.
The History of Manchester. In Four Books. Book 1 (Roman and
Roman-British Period), 1771; Additional vol. of Principal Corrections,
and 2nd edn of vol. 1, 2 vols. , 1773; Book 11 (Saxon Period, to foundation
of Heptarchy, and descent upon it of the Danes), 1775. [No more pub-
lished. ]
The Genuine History of the Britons, a refutation of Macpherson's
Introd. to the History of Great Britain and Ireland. 1772.
Mary Queen of Scots vindicated. 3 vols. 1787; volume of Additions
and 2nd edn, 1790. [An uncompromising defence, now of no importance.
His unfinished MS of the Private Life of Mary Queen of Scots was used
by Chambers, G. as a basis for his Life of Mary, 1818. ]
Life of St Neot (posthumous).
CHAPTER XIV
PHILOSOPHERS
General Authorities: Histories of philosophy and of political economy;
Forsyth, T. M. , English Philosophy, 1910; McCosh, J. , The Soottish Philosophy,
1875; Pringle-Pattison, A. S. , Scottish Philosophy, 1885; Seth, J. , English
Philosophers, 1912; Stephen, Sir L. , A History of English Thought in the
Eighteenth Century. 2 vols. 1876.
I. David HUME
A. Works
(In chronological order)
A Treatise of Human Nature: being an Attempt to introduce the experi-
mental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects. Vols. I and 11, 1739;
vol. III, 1740.
Essays Moral and Political. Edinburgh, 1741. Vol. 11, 1742.
Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding. 1748.
An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. 1751.
Political Discourses. Edinburgh, 1752.
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. In four volumes. 1753-4 (final
edition, 1777).
The History of Great Britain. (The History of England. ) See bibliography
to chap. XII, ante.
Four Dissertations. I. The Natural History of Religion. II. Of the Passions.
III. Of Tragedy. IV. Of the Standard of Taste. 1757.
The Life of David Hume, Esq. Written by himself. 1777.
Two Essays Con Suicide and on Immortality). 1777.
Dialogues concerning Natural Religion. 1779.
Editions of A Treatise of Human Nature and Dialogues concerning Natural
Religion, by Green, T. H. and Grose, T. H. (with philosophical introduc-
tions by Green, T. H. ), 2 vols. , 1874; of Essays (complete) by the same
(with bibliographical introduction by Grose, T. H. ), 2 vols. , 1875; of the
Treatise, Oxford, 1896, and of the two Enquiries, ib. , 1894 (with indexes)
by Selby-Bigge, L. A. ; of the Dialogues, by McEwen, B. , 1907; of the
Political Discourses, by Robertson, W. B. , 1908.
B. Selected Biography and Criticism
Bonar, J. Philosophy and Political Economy. 1893.
Burton, J. H. Life and Correspondence of David Hume. 1846.
Letters of Eminent Persons addressed to David Hume. 1849.
Gižycki, G. von. Die Ethik Humes. 1878.
Green, T. H. Introductions to Hume's Treatise. Vols. I and 11. Works.
Vol. 1. 1885.
Hedvall, C. Humes Erkenntnistheorie. 1906.
Hill, G. Birkbeck. Letters of David Hume to W. Strahan. 1888.
Huxley, T. H. Hume. (English Men of Letters series.
Notes by Guizot, F. P. G. , 13 vols. , Paris, 1812; 3rd edn, 1828–9.
Geschichte des Verfalls und Untergangs des Römischen Reiches. Übers.
und mit einigen Anm. herausg. von Wenck, Friedrich August Wilhelm.
19 vols. 1779. 2nd edn. 1820.
German translation of c. XLIV by Hugo, G. H. under the title:
Gibbon's Übersicht des römischen Rechts. Göttingen, 1789.
Istoria della Decadenza e Rovina dell'Imperio Romano. Trans. by Fabbroni
and Foggi, vols. 1-IX. Pisa, 1779–86. [Vol. x, though printed, was never
published. ]
e
&
(2) Adversaria, etc.
Apthorpe, East. Letters on the Prevalence of Christianity before its Civil
Establishment; with Observations on the late History of the Decline
of the Roman Empire. 1778.
Burgh, William. An Enquiry into the Belief of the Christians of the first
three centuries respecting the one Godhead. York, 1778.
(Chelsum, James. ) Remarks on the two last Chapters of Mr Gibbon's
History, etc. , in a Letter to a Friend. 1776. Rptd in an enlarged form,
with the author's name, Oxford, 1778. [Chelsum was assisted in his
task by Thomas Randolph. ]
A Reply to Mr Gibbon's Vindication. Winchester, 1785.
Davis, Henry Edwards. An Examination of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Chapters of Mr Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall, etc. In which
his view of the Progress of the Christian Religion is shewn to be founded
on the Misrepresentation of the authors he cites: and Numerous In-
stances of his Inaccuracy and Plagiarism are produced. 1778.
Edwards, Thomas. The Jewish and Heathen Rejection of the Christian
Miracles. Preached before the University of Cambridge. March 7,
1790.
Hailes, Lord (Sir David Dalrymple). An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes
which Mr Gibbon has assigned for the Rapid Growth of Christianity.
1786.
Loftus, Smyth. A Reply to the Reasonings of Mr Gibbon, etc. Dublin,
1778.
Milner, Joseph. Gibbon's Account of Christianity considered; together
with some Strictures on Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion.
1781.
Priestley, Joseph. An History of the Corruptions of Christianity. 1782.
[The challenge to Gibbon is in Part 1 of the General Conclusion. ]
Randolph, Thomas (President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford). The
Proof of the Christian Religion drawn from its Successful and Speedy
Propagation, etc. In two sermons. Oxford, 1777. [Against Gibbon's
chap. xv. ]
Taylor, Henry. Thoughts on the Nature of the Grand Apostacy, with Re-
flections and Observations on the XVth Chapter of Mr Gibbon's History
of the Decline and Fall, etc. 1781.
- Further Thoughts, etc. 1783.
I
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508
Bibliography
Travis, George (archdeacon). Letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq. , author of
the History of the Decline and Fall, etc. Chester, 1785. 3rd edn (enlarged).
1794.
Porson, Richard. Letters to Archdeacon Travis in Answer to Defence
of the Three Heavenly Witnesses. The Gentleman's Magazine,
1788-9. Rptd 1790, and with an additional letter (or this only ? )
in Porson's Tracts and Miscellaneous Criticisms. Ed. Kidd, T.
1815.
Watson, Richard (bishop of Llandaff). An Apology for Christianity in a
Series of Letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq. 1776.
· Two Apologies, one for Christianity in a series of letters addressed to
Edward Gibbon, Esq. , 1776, the other for the Bible, in answer to Thomas
Paine, etc. , 1805.
Whitaker, John. Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire, in vols. iv, v and vi quarto, reviewed. 1791. [Originally pub-
lished in The English Review. ]
White, Joseph. Sermons containing a View of Christianity and Mahome-
tanism, in their history, their evidence and their effects, preached before
the University of Oxford. Bampton Lectures, 1784. 3rd edn. 1789.
Gibbon, Edward. A Vindication of Some Passages in the XVth and XVIth
Chapters of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
By the Author. 1779. (Rptd in Misc. Works, vol. iv. )
C. Other Writings (including Memoirs and Letters)
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, with Memoirs of his Life and
Writings Composed by Himself. Ed. John, Lord Sheffield. Vols. I
and 11, 1796 ; vol. 111, 1814; new edn, 5 vols. , 1814. (Vol. 1: Memoirs and
Letters; vol. 11: Letters; vol. 111: Historical and Critical; vol. iv: Classical
and Critical; vol. v: Miscellaneous. ]
(1) Memoirs and Letters
Autobiographies, the, of Edward Gibbon. Printed verbatim from hitherto
unpublished MSS, with an introduction by the Earl of Sheffield. Ed.
Murray, John. 1896. Contains (though in different order):
A. The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon, with various observa-
tions and excursions by himself. Written in 1788-9, but only giving
particulars of his family.
B. My own Life. Written in 1789–90, and ending in April 1764.
C. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon ; written in
1789-90, and brought down to October 1772.
D. Memoirs (without title); written in 1790-1, and brought down to
October 1772.
E. My Own Life; dated at end 'Lausanne, March 2, 1791, and
ending with the death of Deyverdun in July 1789; with notes added in
1792-3.
F. Memoirs (without title); written in 1792-3, but only brought down
to the date of Gibbon's leaving Oxford in June, 1753. [Described by
Murray as the latest and most perfect. A fragment of headings from
June 1753 to April 1758, with two pages on ancestry, containing the
famous passage on Tom Jones and the house of Austria. ]
Life, the, of Edward Gibbon, Esq. , With Selections from his Correspondence,
and illustrations by Milman, H. H. 1839. [The Memoirs, divided into
## p. 509 (#535) ############################################
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509
chapters, with extracts from the Journals, and selected Letters to Lord
Sheffield and others. ]
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753–1794). With an Introduction by
the Earl of Sheffield. Ed. by Prothero, Rowland E. 2 vols. 1896.
Memoirs, the, of the Life of Edward Gibbon, with various Observations and
Excursions by himself. Ed. Hill, George Birkbeck. 1900. [Contains
ample notes, and in the appendix, valuable excursuses. ]
(2) Other Writings
Antiquities of the House of Brunswick. Miscellaneous Works, vol. III.
1814.
Essai sur l'Étude de la Littérature. 1761. Rptd in Miscellaneous Works,
vol. iv.
Mémoire justificatif pour servir de réponse à l'Exposé, etc. , de la Cour de
France. 1779. [Published anonymously. ] Rptd in Miscellaneous Works,
vol. v, 1814.
Mémoires Littéraires de la Grande-Bretagne. 2 vols. 1767-8. [Ed. by
Gibbon and Deyverdun, George. ] Rptd in Miscellaneous Works, vol. iv,
1814.
Observations on the Design of the VIth Book of the Aeneid. Rptd in Mis-
cellaneous Works, vol. iv.
D. Biography and Criticism
(Writings not previously mentioned under B)
Adeane, Jane H. The Girlhood of Maria Josepha Holroyd (Lady Stanley
of Alderley), recorded in letters. Ed. J. H. A. 1896. [She was the
daughter of Gibbon's chief friend, the first Lord Sheffield. ]
See, also, Adeane, Jane H. , The Early Married Life of Maria Josepha,
Lady Stanley, 1899.
Bagehot, W.
Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen: E. Gibbon.
1858.
Morison, James Cotter. Gibbon. (English Men of Letters series. ) 1878.
Proceedings of the Gibbon Commemoration, 1794-1894. Royal Historical
Society. 1895. [Contains Introductory Speech of Sir Mountstuart Grant
Duff, Address by Frederic Harrison, and Catalogue of the Exhibition at
the British Museum of Autograph Memoirs, Journals and Notebooks,
Correspondence, Early Impressions, Relics and Portraits. ]
Read, General Meredith. Historic Studies in Vaud, Berne and Savoy, from
Roman Times to Voltaire, Rousseau and Gibbon. 2 vols. 1897. [See vol. 11
for much about Gibbon and the relics of him at Lausanne and elsewhere. ]
Smith, James. Junius Unveiled. 1909. (An unconvincing attempt to prove
that Gibbon was Junius. ]
II. OTHER WRITERS ON ANCIENT HISTORY
See bibliography to chap. XII, ante.
Hooke, Nathaniel (d. 1673). Roman History, from the Building of Rome
to the Ruin of the Commonwealth. 4 vols. 1738-71.
For titles of a series of dissertations by Hooke on the Roman Senate
see art. Hooke, Nathaniel, in Dictionary of National Biography,
vol. XXVII.
Middleton, Conyers. The History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero.
2 vols. 1741.
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510
Bibliography
Middleton, Conyers. The Miscellaneous Works. 4 vols. 1752. 2nd edn.
5 vols. 1755. [Contains, besides the Life of Cicero:]
A Dissertation concerning the Origin of Printing. 1735.
The Epistles of M. T. Cicero to M. Brutus, and of Brutus to Cicero.
With English notes and a prefatory dissertation. 1743.
A Treatise on the Roman Senate. 1746–7.
See, also, bibliography to vol. ix, chap. XII.
Mitford, William. The History of Greece. 10 vols. 1784-1810. New edn.
10 vols. 1819-20.
Macaulay, Lord. Review of the above. In Knight's Quarterly Mag-
azine for November 1824. Rptd in Miscellaneous Writings, vol. 1,
1860.
Memoir, by the author's brother, Lord Redesdale. In History of
Greece. 8 vols. 1829. Revised by King, W.
Whitaker, John. The Course of Hannibal over the Alps ascertained. 2 vols.
1784.
Tytler, Alexander Fraser (Lord Woodhouselee). A Critical Examina
tion of the above. 1794.
The History of Manchester. In Four Books. Book 1 (Roman and
Roman-British Period), 1771; Additional vol. of Principal Corrections,
and 2nd edn of vol. 1, 2 vols. , 1773; Book 11 (Saxon Period, to foundation
of Heptarchy, and descent upon it of the Danes), 1775. [No more pub-
lished. ]
The Genuine History of the Britons, a refutation of Macpherson's
Introd. to the History of Great Britain and Ireland. 1772.
Mary Queen of Scots vindicated. 3 vols. 1787; volume of Additions
and 2nd edn, 1790. [An uncompromising defence, now of no importance.
His unfinished MS of the Private Life of Mary Queen of Scots was used
by Chambers, G. as a basis for his Life of Mary, 1818. ]
Life of St Neot (posthumous).
CHAPTER XIV
PHILOSOPHERS
General Authorities: Histories of philosophy and of political economy;
Forsyth, T. M. , English Philosophy, 1910; McCosh, J. , The Soottish Philosophy,
1875; Pringle-Pattison, A. S. , Scottish Philosophy, 1885; Seth, J. , English
Philosophers, 1912; Stephen, Sir L. , A History of English Thought in the
Eighteenth Century. 2 vols. 1876.
I. David HUME
A. Works
(In chronological order)
A Treatise of Human Nature: being an Attempt to introduce the experi-
mental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects. Vols. I and 11, 1739;
vol. III, 1740.
Essays Moral and Political. Edinburgh, 1741. Vol. 11, 1742.
Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding. 1748.
An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. 1751.
Political Discourses. Edinburgh, 1752.
I
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511
Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. In four volumes. 1753-4 (final
edition, 1777).
The History of Great Britain. (The History of England. ) See bibliography
to chap. XII, ante.
Four Dissertations. I. The Natural History of Religion. II. Of the Passions.
III. Of Tragedy. IV. Of the Standard of Taste. 1757.
The Life of David Hume, Esq. Written by himself. 1777.
Two Essays Con Suicide and on Immortality). 1777.
Dialogues concerning Natural Religion. 1779.
Editions of A Treatise of Human Nature and Dialogues concerning Natural
Religion, by Green, T. H. and Grose, T. H. (with philosophical introduc-
tions by Green, T. H. ), 2 vols. , 1874; of Essays (complete) by the same
(with bibliographical introduction by Grose, T. H. ), 2 vols. , 1875; of the
Treatise, Oxford, 1896, and of the two Enquiries, ib. , 1894 (with indexes)
by Selby-Bigge, L. A. ; of the Dialogues, by McEwen, B. , 1907; of the
Political Discourses, by Robertson, W. B. , 1908.
B. Selected Biography and Criticism
Bonar, J. Philosophy and Political Economy. 1893.
Burton, J. H. Life and Correspondence of David Hume. 1846.
Letters of Eminent Persons addressed to David Hume. 1849.
Gižycki, G. von. Die Ethik Humes. 1878.
Green, T. H. Introductions to Hume's Treatise. Vols. I and 11. Works.
Vol. 1. 1885.
Hedvall, C. Humes Erkenntnistheorie. 1906.
Hill, G. Birkbeck. Letters of David Hume to W. Strahan. 1888.
Huxley, T. H. Hume. (English Men of Letters series.
