E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Hume, David
(b. Edinburgh, April 26th, 1711, d. Edinburgh, August 26th, 1776). “Treatise of Human Nature” (1738); “Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary” (1741–42); an “Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding” (1748); an “Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals” (1751); “Political Discourse” (1751); “The History of England” (1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761); and the “Natural History of Religion” (1755). See the “Autobiography,” edited by Adam Smith (1789); and the “Lives” by Pratt (1777), Dalrymple (1787), Ritchie (1807), and Hill Burton (1846). “Philosophical Works” (1875). See Huxley’s monograph (1879).
