Early Responses to Hume's 'History Of England'

Download or read book Early Responses to Hume's 'History Of England' written by James Fieser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic presentation of eighteenth and nineteenth-century criticisms of Hume's History. Most of the fifty-four selections appear here for the first time since their original publication, and include a new translation of the 1755 review of Hume's History from the German Gottingische Anzeigen, and the complete texts of Daniel MacQueen's Letters on Mr. Hume's History of Great Britain (1756). There are also contributions from Joseph Towers, Tobias Smollett, Adam Smith, William Enfield, Francis Jeffrey and many others.