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Dr. ADAM SMITH.
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them any farther"[1]. Now, Sir, if you will only give me leave to judge, before dinner, of Mr. Hume's philosophy, as he judged of it after dinner, we shall have no farther dispute upon that subject. Only I could wish, if it were possible, to have a scheme of thought, which would bear contemplating, at any time of the day; because, otherwise, a person must be at the expence of maintaining a brace of these metaphysical Hobby-Horses, one to mount
- ↑ Treatise of Human Nature. I. 467. In the Postscript to this Letter, a view will be given of the Humian system, taken exactly as it appeared to it's author at six o'clock in the evening.
