 | David Hume - 1893 - 190 стор.
...Never literary 13 attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction as even...soon recovered the blow, and prosecuted with great ardor my studies in the country. In 1742 I printed at Edinburgh the first part of my Essays ; the work... | |
 | David Hume - 1893 - 308 стор.
...met with no favor. Of its reception, he himself says in his autobiography: " It fell dead born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots." This latter part of the remark shows that he was quite conscious of the sceptical character of his... | |
 | John Mackintosh - 1896 - 532 стор.
...never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the Zealots." This caused him to recast portions of it in a more popular lorm, under the titles of " Essays : Moral... | |
 | Truman Jay Backus - 1897 - 508 стор.
...Treatise on Human Nature. " Never," says Hume's autobiography, " was literary attempt more unfortunate. But being naturally of a cheerful and sanguine temper, I very soon recovered the blow." The first volume of Moral and Philosophical Essays, published in 1741, met with a more favorable reception.... | |
 | John Caird - 1898 - 416 стор.
...with some little exaggeration due to modified ambition, " was more unfortunate. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots." The true cause of the failure, in so far as lack of immediate success is equivalent to failure, is... | |
 | Harald Høffding - 1900 - 558 стор.
...classics. At first, however, it was destined to have no result " It fell," he says, " dead-born from the press without reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots." Hume's literary ambition, which led him to pronounce this brilliant testimony to his mental abilities... | |
 | Joseph Thomas - 1901 - 1462 стор.
...published in London in 1738, but was treated with discouraging neglect He says himself, "It fell from the press without reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots." Mackintosh calls this work " the first systematic attack on all the principles of knowledge and belief,... | |
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 стор.
...Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction as even...1742, I printed at Edinburgh the first part of my Essays: the work was favourably received, aud soon made me entirely forget my former disappointment.... | |
 | William Turner - 1903 - 692 стор.
...he spent in France, he wrote his Treatise on Human Nature. The work, he says, " fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots." Later. he recast the first book of the Treatise into his Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, the... | |
 | Arthur Stone Dewing - 1903 - 358 стор.
...the development of human speculation, Hume peevishly writes that his first work " fell dead-born from the press without reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots." 10 Thoroughly dissatisfied with the reception of the " Treatise," Hume sought to gain recognition by... | |
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Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots. 
