Empirismus
und Skepsis in Humes Philosophie.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
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. ) 1879.
Jodl, F. Leben und Philosophie Humes. 1872.
Klemme, M. Die volkswirtschaftlichen Anschauungen Humes. 1900.
Lechartier, G. David Hume, moraliste et sociologue. 1900.
Marcus, E. Kant's Revolutionsprinzip. Eine exakte Lösung des Kant-
Hume'schen Erkenntnisproblem. 1902.
Meinong, A. Hume-Studien. 1, 1877; 11, 1882.
Pfeiderer, E.
Empirismus und Skepsis in Humes Philosophie. 1874.
Quast, 0. Der Begriff der Belief bei Hume. 1903.
Teisseire, M. Les Essais économiques de David Hume. 1902.
Thomsen, A. David Hume. Sein Leben und seine Philosophie. 1912.
II. ADAM SMITH
A. Works
The Theory of Moral Sentiments; or an essay towards an analysis of the
principles by which men naturally judge concerning the conduct and
character, first of their neighbours, and afterwards of themselves; to
which is added, a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages. 1759. 6th edn.
2 vols. 1790.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 2 vols.
1776. 6th edn. 3 vols. 1791. Edd. McCulloch, J. R. , 1828 etc. ; Rogers,
J. E. T. , 1869; Nicholson, J. S. , 1884; Cannan, E. , 1904.
Essays on Philosophical Subjects. To which is prefixed an account of the
life and writings of the author. By Stewart, Dugald. 1795.
Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms. . . reported by a student in
1763. Ed. by Cannan, E. Oxford, 1896.
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512
Bibliography
B. Biography and Criticism
Bagehot, W. Economic Studies. 1880.
Biographical Studies. 1881.
Bonar, J. Philosophy and Political Economy. 1893.
A Catalogue of the Library of Adam Smith. 1894.
Farrer, J. A. Adam Smith. (English Philosophers series. ) 1881.
Haldane, Viscount. Adam Smith. (Great Writers series. ) 1887.
Hasbach, W. Die allgemeinen philosophischen Grundlagen der von Quesnay
und Smith begründeten politischen Ökonomie. Leipzig, 1890.
Untersuchungen über Adam Smith. Leipzig, 1891.
Hirst, F. W. Adam Smith. (English Men of Letters series. ) 1904.
Leslie, T. E. Cliffe. Essays in Political and Moral Philosophy. 1879.
Nicholson, J. S. A Project of Empire. 1909.
Oncken, A. Adam Smith in der Culturgeschichte. 1874.
Adam Smith und Immanuel Kant. 1877.
Rae, John. Life of Adam Smith. 1895.
Stewart, Dugald. Biographical Memoir of Adam Smith in Trans. R. S. E.
1793. (In vol. containing also memoirs of Robertson and Reid, 1811; in
Works, vol. x, 1858. )
III. OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL WRITERS
James Beattie
An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth in opposition to sophistry
and scepticism. Edinburgh, 1770. With other essays. Edinburgh, 1776.
Dissertations moral and critical. 1783.
Elements of Moral Science. 1790-3.
Forbes, Sir W. Life and Writings of Beattie. 2 vols. 1806.
Forbes, M. Beattie and his friends. 1904.
See, also, bibliography to chap. VII, ante.
George Campbell (1719-1796)
A Dissertation on Miracles. 1762.
The Philosophy of Rhetoric. 1776.
William Derham (1657–1735)
Physico-Theology. 1713.
Astro-Theology. 1715.
Christo-Theology. 1730.
John Douglas (bishop of Salisbury) (1721-1807)
Criterion of Miracles. 1752.
Adam Ferguson
Essay on the History of Civil Society. 1767.
History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic. 1783.
Principles of Moral and Political Science. Edinburgh, 1792.
Huth, H. Soziale und individualistische Auffassung . . . bei Adam Smith und
Adam Ferguson. 1907.
See, also, bibliography to chap. XII, ante.
James Harris (1709-1780)
Hermes, or a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Universal Grammar. 1751.
Philosophical Arrangements. 1775.
Philological Inquiries in three parts. 2 vols. 1781.
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4/
David Hartley
Conjecturæ quædam de sensu motu et idearum generatione. 1746. In Parr's
Metaphysical Tracts, 1837.
Observations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations. 1749.
(The edition of 1791 is accompanied by a sketch of the author's life, and
by notes and additions translated from the German of Pistorius, H. A. )
Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind, on the principle of the Association of
Ideas. With essays by Priestley, J. 1775.
Bower, G. 8. Hartley and James Mill. (English Philosophers Series. ) 1881.
Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782).
Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion. 1751. (German
trans. 1772. )
Introduction to the Art of Thinking. 1761.
Elements of Criticism. 1762.
Sketches of the History of Man. 1774.
Tytler, A. F. , Lord Woodhouslee. Life of Lord Kames. 1807.
Nathaniel Lardner (1684-1768).
The Credibility of the Gospel History. 1727-55.
Works. 11 vols. 1788. 4 vols. 1817. 10 vols. 1827.
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1717-1799).
Of the Origin and Progress of Language. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1773-6.
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.
## p. 510 (#536) ############################################
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
## p. 511 (#537) ############################################
Chapter XIV
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. ) 1879.
Jodl, F. Leben und Philosophie Humes. 1872.
Klemme, M. Die volkswirtschaftlichen Anschauungen Humes. 1900.
Lechartier, G. David Hume, moraliste et sociologue. 1900.
Marcus, E. Kant's Revolutionsprinzip. Eine exakte Lösung des Kant-
Hume'schen Erkenntnisproblem. 1902.
Meinong, A. Hume-Studien. 1, 1877; 11, 1882.
Pfeiderer, E.
Empirismus und Skepsis in Humes Philosophie. 1874.
Quast, 0. Der Begriff der Belief bei Hume. 1903.
Teisseire, M. Les Essais économiques de David Hume. 1902.
Thomsen, A. David Hume. Sein Leben und seine Philosophie. 1912.
II. ADAM SMITH
A. Works
The Theory of Moral Sentiments; or an essay towards an analysis of the
principles by which men naturally judge concerning the conduct and
character, first of their neighbours, and afterwards of themselves; to
which is added, a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages. 1759. 6th edn.
2 vols. 1790.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 2 vols.
1776. 6th edn. 3 vols. 1791. Edd. McCulloch, J. R. , 1828 etc. ; Rogers,
J. E. T. , 1869; Nicholson, J. S. , 1884; Cannan, E. , 1904.
Essays on Philosophical Subjects. To which is prefixed an account of the
life and writings of the author. By Stewart, Dugald. 1795.
Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms. . . reported by a student in
1763. Ed. by Cannan, E. Oxford, 1896.
## p. 512 (#538) ############################################
512
Bibliography
B. Biography and Criticism
Bagehot, W. Economic Studies. 1880.
Biographical Studies. 1881.
Bonar, J. Philosophy and Political Economy. 1893.
A Catalogue of the Library of Adam Smith. 1894.
Farrer, J. A. Adam Smith. (English Philosophers series. ) 1881.
Haldane, Viscount. Adam Smith. (Great Writers series. ) 1887.
Hasbach, W. Die allgemeinen philosophischen Grundlagen der von Quesnay
und Smith begründeten politischen Ökonomie. Leipzig, 1890.
Untersuchungen über Adam Smith. Leipzig, 1891.
Hirst, F. W. Adam Smith. (English Men of Letters series. ) 1904.
Leslie, T. E. Cliffe. Essays in Political and Moral Philosophy. 1879.
Nicholson, J. S. A Project of Empire. 1909.
Oncken, A. Adam Smith in der Culturgeschichte. 1874.
Adam Smith und Immanuel Kant. 1877.
Rae, John. Life of Adam Smith. 1895.
Stewart, Dugald. Biographical Memoir of Adam Smith in Trans. R. S. E.
1793. (In vol. containing also memoirs of Robertson and Reid, 1811; in
Works, vol. x, 1858. )
III. OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL WRITERS
James Beattie
An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth in opposition to sophistry
and scepticism. Edinburgh, 1770. With other essays. Edinburgh, 1776.
Dissertations moral and critical. 1783.
Elements of Moral Science. 1790-3.
Forbes, Sir W. Life and Writings of Beattie. 2 vols. 1806.
Forbes, M. Beattie and his friends. 1904.
See, also, bibliography to chap. VII, ante.
George Campbell (1719-1796)
A Dissertation on Miracles. 1762.
The Philosophy of Rhetoric. 1776.
William Derham (1657–1735)
Physico-Theology. 1713.
Astro-Theology. 1715.
Christo-Theology. 1730.
John Douglas (bishop of Salisbury) (1721-1807)
Criterion of Miracles. 1752.
Adam Ferguson
Essay on the History of Civil Society. 1767.
History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic. 1783.
Principles of Moral and Political Science. Edinburgh, 1792.
Huth, H. Soziale und individualistische Auffassung . . . bei Adam Smith und
Adam Ferguson. 1907.
See, also, bibliography to chap. XII, ante.
James Harris (1709-1780)
Hermes, or a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Universal Grammar. 1751.
Philosophical Arrangements. 1775.
Philological Inquiries in three parts. 2 vols. 1781.
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513
4/
David Hartley
Conjecturæ quædam de sensu motu et idearum generatione. 1746. In Parr's
Metaphysical Tracts, 1837.
Observations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations. 1749.
(The edition of 1791 is accompanied by a sketch of the author's life, and
by notes and additions translated from the German of Pistorius, H. A. )
Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind, on the principle of the Association of
Ideas. With essays by Priestley, J. 1775.
Bower, G. 8. Hartley and James Mill. (English Philosophers Series. ) 1881.
Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782).
Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion. 1751. (German
trans. 1772. )
Introduction to the Art of Thinking. 1761.
Elements of Criticism. 1762.
Sketches of the History of Man. 1774.
Tytler, A. F. , Lord Woodhouslee. Life of Lord Kames. 1807.
Nathaniel Lardner (1684-1768).
The Credibility of the Gospel History. 1727-55.
Works. 11 vols. 1788. 4 vols. 1817. 10 vols. 1827.
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1717-1799).
Of the Origin and Progress of Language. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1773-6.