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Four Dissertations

Four Dissertations
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Four Dissertations is a collection of four essays by the 18th-century Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, first published in 1757. The four essays are:

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  1. In 1757 one of his most remarkable works, the _Natural History of Religion_, appeared. The book was attacked--not wholly to Hume's dissatisfaction, for he appreciated fame as well as success--"with all the illiberal petulance, arrogance, and scurrility which distinguish the Warburtonian school."

    David Hume, Essays

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  2. As soon as writing came into fashion, wise men, or those who fancied themselves such, would naturally endeavour to increase the number of those established and respected maxims, and to express their own sense of what was either proper or improper conduct, sometimes in the more artificial form of apologues, like what are called the fables of AEsop; and sometimes in the more simple one of apophthegms or wise sayings…

    Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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  3. Firth, B.A., Late Scholar of Queen’s College, Oxford. 112 The Letters of the Younger Pliny. Series II. Translated by John B. Firth, B.A. 113 Selected Thoughts of Blaise Pascal. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Gertrude Burford Rawlings. 114 Scots Essayists: from Stirling to Stevenson, Edited, with an Introduction, by Oliphant Smeaton. 115 On Liberty. By John Stuart Mill. With an Introduction by W. L…

    David Hume, Hume's Political Discourses

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