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Interesting article that leaves me wanting to read the two missing essays. My head tilted at the statement, "His writings... were considered masterpieces when
by Eupraxias 4y ago
Interesting article that leaves me wanting to read the two missing essays.
My head tilted at the statement, "His writings... were considered masterpieces when they appeared in the 18th century."
Hume remembers it differently, commenting on the arrival of his famous Treatise, which in his own words "fell dead-born from the press".
- cafard 4y agoWell, some of his writings.
- parenthesis 4y agoHis The History of England was his big hit in his lifetime.
- Nomentatus 4y agoBoth views are true, his first philosophical book got no traction. Then his Histories made him very famous, and a rewrite of his philosophical views was much better received.