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Hume's Political Discourses

by David Hume (1711–1776)

Portrait of David Hume — Allan Ramsay · Public domain

32 chapters, about 89,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

INTRODUCTION. 1,700 words
MY OWN LIFE. 2,900 words
ADAM SMITH’S CELEBRATED ACCOUNT OF HUME’S DEATH. 2,200 words
OF COMMERCE. 4,700 words
OF REFINEMENT IN THE ARTS. 4,200 words
OF MONEY. 3,900 words
OF INTEREST. 4,100 words
OF THE BALANCE OF TRADE. 4,700 words
OF THE JEALOUSY OF TRADE. 1,300 words
OF THE BALANCE OF POWER. 2,600 words
OF TAXES. 1,700 words
OF PUBLIC CREDIT. 4,200 words
NOTES, OF PUBLIC CREDIT. 200 words
OF SOME REMARKABLE CUSTOMS. 2,300 words
OF THE POPULOUSNESS OF ANCIENT NATIONS.[39] 16,300 words
NOTES, OF THE POPULOUSNESS OF ANCIENT NATIONS. 1,400 words
OF THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT. 5,600 words
OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. 1,200 words
OF THE COALITION OF PARTIES. 2,600 words
OF THE PROTESTANT SUCCESSION. 3,100 words
NOTES, OF THE PROTESTANT SUCCESSION. 300 words
IDEA OF A PERFECT COMMONWEALTH. 5,200 words
THAT POLITICS MAY BE REDUCED TO A SCIENCE. 3,600 words
NOTES, POLITICS REDUCED TO A SCIENCE. 900 words
OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT. 1,400 words
OF POLITICAL SOCIETY. 1,800 words
ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT OF AUTHORITIES CITED BY HUME. 1,200 words
VOLUMES ALREADY ISSUED— 1,800 words
_VOLUMES READY._ 100 words
MILLAIS—LEIGHTON—MORLAND. 700 words
SPECIAL EDITION OF THE CANTERBURY POETS. 800 words
IN PREPARATION. 300 words

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