43-23

AND

TREATISES

ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

BY DAVID HUME, Esq.

VOLUME FIRST,

CONTAINING

ESSAYS, MORAL, POLITICAL, AND LITERARY.

A NEW EDITION.

PRINTED

EDINBURGH:

FOR BELL & BRADFUTE, AND W. BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH;
AND T. CADELL; LONGMAN, HURST, & CO.; J. CUTHELL; J. NUNN;
BALDWIN, CRADOCK & JOY; JEFFERY & SON; JOHN RICHARDSON;
SHERWOOD & CO.; G. B. WHITTAKER; R. SAUNDERS; J. COLLINGWOOD;
W. MASON; AND J. DUNCAN, LONDON.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by James Walker.

XI. Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature .............. 73

XII. Of Civil Liberty ....

81

XIII. Of Eloquence

....... 91

XIV. Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences....

104

XX. Of Simplicity and Refinement in Writing ............................................

188