"David Hume" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thrown a veil over them. Were the whole truth known, it might be found that there is a shameful exaggeration of the vices of Roman Emperors: this looks most probable when we consider the significant reflections made about Princes in one of his miscellaneous productions, by the historian, David Hume,—not the David Hume, minor, who, living a long time among the English, and becoming fascinated with their ways, manners, customs and civilization, mooted the union of England and Scotland, more than a hundred years ...
— Tacitus and Bracciolini - The Annals Forged in the XVth Century • John Wilson Ross
... subject can best be answered by quoting in full the first paragraph of Chapter XVI of David Hume's ...
— At Ypres with Best-Dunkley • Thomas Hope Floyd
... Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771), the novelist, came of a Dumbartonshire family. Rory was Roderick Random's schoolboy name. His companion was Strap. See Roderick Random, Chapter XIII., for the passage in question. Smollett continued the History of England of David Hume (1711-1776), also a Scotchman, and one of the authors whom Lamb could not read (see "Detached Thoughts on ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb |
