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[Illustration: Portrait of Hume from a Bust]
FROM THE PAPERS BEQUEATHED BY HIS NEPHEW TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; AND OTHER ORIGINAL SOURCES.
EDINBURGH: WILLIAM TAIT, 107, PRINCE'S STREET. MDCCCXLVI.
EDINBURGH: Printed by WILLIAM TAIT, 107, Prince's Street.
Portrait of Hume from a Bust, _Frontispiece_.
Fac simile of a page of the History of England, Page 79
Fac simile of a letter from Rousseau, 326
The second volume of the History of the Stuarts--His Apologies for his Treatment of Religion--The Four Dissertations--The Two Suppressed Dissertations--Resigns his Office of Librarian-- Home's Douglas--Commences the History of the Tudors-- Wilkie's Epigoniad--Hume's Nationalism--Warburton--Colonel Edmondstoune--Dr. Robertson--Negotiations as to Ferguson's Chair--Hume goes to London--Writes Letters of Fictitious and Extravagant News--Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments-- Publication of the History of the House of Tudor--General View of the Constitutional Principles of the History. 1
Alterations of the History in the direction of despotic Principles--Specimens--Alterations in Style--Specimens--His Elaboration--Ossian's Poems--Labours at the early part of the History--Ferguson's "Sister Peg"--Acquaintance with Madame de Boufflers--Account of that lady--First intercourse with Rousseau--Rousseau's position--The exiled Earl Marischal-- Campbell and his Dissertation on Miracles. 73