Hume's Political Discourses
by David Hume
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- The Scott Library: Hume’s Political Discourses, by David Hume. Edited, with an Introduction by William Bell Robertson.
- CONTENTS.
- INTRODUCTION.
- MY OWN LIFE.
- ADAM SMITH’S CELEBRATED ACCOUNT OF HUME’S DEATH.
- NOTES, INTRODUCTION.
- OF COMMERCE.
- NOTES, OF COMMERCE.
- OF REFINEMENT IN THE ARTS.
- NOTES, OF REFINEMENT IN THE ARTS.
- OF MONEY.
- NOTES, OF MONEY.
- OF INTEREST.
- NOTE, OF INTEREST.
- OF THE BALANCE OF TRADE.
- NOTES, OF THE BALANCE OF TRADE.
- OF THE JEALOUSY OF TRADE.
- OF THE BALANCE OF POWER.
- NOTES, OF THE BALANCE OF POWER.
- OF TAXES.
- NOTE, OF TAXES.
- OF PUBLIC CREDIT.
- NOTES, OF PUBLIC CREDIT.
- OF SOME REMARKABLE CUSTOMS.
- NOTES, OF SOME REMARKABLE CUSTOMS.
- OF THE POPULOUSNESS OF ANCIENT NATIONS.[39]
- NOTES, OF THE POPULOUSNESS OF ANCIENT NATIONS.
- OF THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT.
- NOTES, OF THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT.
- OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
- OF THE COALITION OF PARTIES.
- NOTE, OF THE COALITION OF PARTIES.
- OF THE PROTESTANT SUCCESSION.
- NOTES, OF THE PROTESTANT SUCCESSION.
- IDEA OF A PERFECT COMMONWEALTH.
- THAT POLITICS MAY BE REDUCED TO A SCIENCE.
- NOTES, POLITICS REDUCED TO A SCIENCE.
- OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT.
- OF POLITICAL SOCIETY.
- NOTE, OF POLITICAL SOCIETY.
- ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT OF AUTHORITIES CITED BY HUME.
- ADVERTISEMENTS, from the Walter Scott Publishing Company, Limited, London and Felling-on-Tyne.
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