Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary

{{Short description|1758 book by David Hume}}

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Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1758) is a two-volume compilation of essays by David Hume.{{Cite book |last=Hume |first=David |author-link= David Hume|year=1758 |title= Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects |edition= New |publisher= A. Millar and A. Kincaid & A. Donaldson |publication-date=1758 |location=Strand and Edinburgh |url=https://archive.org/details/essaysandtreati03humegoog |quote=david hume essays. |access-date=28 June 2014 |via= Internet Archive}} Part I includes the essays from Essays, Moral and Political,See {{Cite book |year=1741 |title= Essays, Moral and Political |publisher= A. Kincaid |publication-date=1741 |location= Edinburgh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IHQPAAAAQAAJ&q=inauthor%3A%22David%20Hume%22&pg=PR1|access-date= 15 June 2015}} via Google Books plus two essays from Four Dissertations. The content of this part largely covers political and aesthetic issues. Part II includes the essays from Political Discourses,See {{Cite book |last=Hume |first=David|author-link= David Hume|year=1752 |title=Political Discourses |edition= 2 |publisher= A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson |publication-date=1752 |location= Edinburgh |url=https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-125702-2590|quote=David Hume. |access-date= 16 June 2015}} via Google Books most of which develop economic themes. The total two-part collection appeared within a larger collection of Hume's writings titled Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects.{{cite encyclopedia |url= http://www.iep.utm.edu/hume/ |title= David Hume (1711-1776) |access-date= 11 May 2017 |last= Fieser |first= James |date= 2006 |encyclopedia= The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy}} This was a collaborative publication with the important Scottish bookseller Alexander Kincaid, with whom the bookseller Andrew Millar had a lucrative but sometimes difficult relationship.{{Cite web|url=http://www.millar-project.ed.ac.uk/manuscripts/html_output/4.html|title=The manuscripts, Letter from Andrew Millar to Thomas Cadell, 16 July, 1765. Andrew Millar Project. University of Edinburgh.|website=www.millar-project.ed.ac.uk|access-date=2016-06-06}}

Content:

• My Own Life, by David Hume
• Letter from Adam Smith, L.L.D. to William Strahan, Esq.
• Part I, Essay I, OF THE DELICACY OF TASTE AND PASSION
• Part I, Essay II, OF THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS
• Part I, Essay III, THAT POLITICS MAY BE REDUCED TO A SCIENCE
• Part I, Essay IV, OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT
• Part I, Essay V, OF THE ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT
• Part I, Essay VI, OF THE INDEPENDENCY OF PARLIAMENT
• Part I, Essay VII, WHETHER THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT INCLINES MORE TO ABSOLUTE MONARCHY, OR TO A REPUBLIC
• Part I, Essay VIII, OF PARTIES IN GENERAL
• Part I, Essay IX, OF THE PARTIES OF GREAT BRITAIN
• Part I, Essay X, OF SUPERSTITION AND ENTHUSIASM
• Part I, Essay XI, OF THE DIGNITY OR MEANNESS OF HUMAN NATURE
• Part I, Essay XII, OF CIVIL LIBERTY
• Part I, Essay XIII, OF ELOQUENCE
• Part I, Essay XIV, OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES
• Part I, Essay XV, THE EPICUREAN
• Part I, Essay XVI, THE STOIC
• Part I, Essay XVII, THE PLATONIST
• Part I, Essay XVIII, THE SCEPTIC
• Part I, Essay XIX, OF POLYGAMY AND DIVORCES
• Part I, Essay XX, OF SIMPLICITY AND REFINEMENT IN WRITING
• Part I, Essay XXI, OF NATIONAL CHARACTERS
• Part I, Essay XXII, OF TRAGEDY
• Part I, Essay XXIII, OF THE STANDARD OF TASTE
• Part II, Essay I, OF COMMERCE
• Part II, Essay II, OF REFINEMENT IN THE ARTS
• Part II, Essay III, OF MONEY
• Part II, Essay IV, OF INTEREST
• Part II, Essay V, OF THE BALANCE OF TRADE
• Part II, Essay VI, OF THE JEALOUSY OF TRADE
• Part II, Essay VII, OF THE BALANCE OF POWER
• Part II, Essay VIII, OF TAXES
• Part II, Essay IX, OF PUBLIC CREDIT
• Part II, Essay X, OF SOME REMARKABLE CUSTOMS
• Part II, Essay XI, OF THE POPULOUSNESS OF ANCIENT NATIONS
• Part II, Essay XII, OF THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT
• Part II, Essay XIII, OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE
• Part II, Essay XIV, OF THE COALITION OF PARTIES
• Part II, Essay XV, OF THE PROTESTANT SUCCESSION
• Part II, Essay XVI, IDEA OF A PERFECT COMMONWEALTH
• Part III, Essay I, OF ESSAY-WRITING
• Part III, Essay II, OF MORAL PREJUDICES
• Part III, Essay III, OF THE MIDDLE STATION OF LIFE
• Part III, Essay IV, OF IMPUDENCE AND MODESTY
• Part III, Essay V, OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE
• Part III, Essay VI, OF THE STUDY OF HISTORY
• Part III, Essay VII, OF AVARICE
• Part III, Essay VIII, A CHARACTER OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE
• Part III, Essay IX, OF SUICIDE
• Part III, Essay X, OF THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL