Hume's Political Discourses

About this eBook

Author

Hume, David, 1711-1776

Credits

E-text prepared by RichardW and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

J: Political science

Subject

Economics

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 59792

Release Date

June 22, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by RichardW and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( https://archive.org ) — The Scott Library: Hume’s Pol­it­i­cal Dis­cours­es, by Da­vid Hume. Ed­i­ted, with an In­tro­duc­tion by Wil­liam Bell Rob­ert­son.
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.INTRODUCTION. — MY OWN LIFE. — ADAM SMITH’S CELEBRATED ACCOUNT OF HUME’S DEATH. — NOTES, INTRODUCTION.
4. 4.OF COMMERCE. — NOTES, OF COMMERCE.
5. 5.OF REFINEMENT IN THE ARTS. — NOTES, OF REFINEMENT IN THE ARTS.
6. 6.OF MONEY. — NOTES, OF MONEY.
7. 7.OF INTEREST. — NOTE, OF INTEREST.
8. 8.OF THE BALANCE OF TRADE. — NOTES, OF THE BALANCE OF TRADE.
9. 9.OF THE JEALOUSY OF TRADE.
10. 10.OF THE BALANCE OF POWER. — NOTES, OF THE BALANCE OF POWER.
11. 11.OF TAXES. — NOTE, OF TAXES.
12. 12.OF PUBLIC CREDIT. — NOTES, OF PUBLIC CREDIT.
13. 13.OF SOME REMARKABLE CUSTOMS. — NOTES, OF SOME REMARKABLE CUSTOMS.
14. 14.OF THE POPULOUSNESS OF ANCIENT NATIONS.​ [39] — NOTES, OF THE POPULOUSNESS OF ANCIENT NATIONS.
15. 15.OF THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT. — NOTES, OF THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT.
16. 16.OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
17. 17.OF THE COALITION OF PARTIES. — NOTE, OF THE COALITION OF PARTIES.
18. 18.OF THE PROTESTANT SUCCESSION. — NOTES, OF THE PROTESTANT SUCCESSION.
19. 19.IDEA OF A PERFECT COMMONWEALTH.
20. 20.THAT POLITICS MAY BE REDUCED TO A SCIENCE. — NOTES, POLITICS REDUCED TO A SCIENCE.
21. 21.OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT.
22. 22.OF POLITICAL SOCIETY. — NOTE, OF POLITICAL SOCIETY.
23. 23.ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT OF AUTHORITIES CITED BY HUME.
24. 24.ADVERTISEMENTS, from the Walter Scott Publishing Company, Limited, London and Felling-on-Tyne.

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