This is a transcription of the first and only edition of this work. It was originally intended to consist of the first three essays and a fourth, on geometry and natural philosophy. Hume withdrew the latter following criticism from a competent mathematician, and proposed to replace it with two essays, one on suicide, the other on the immortality of the soul. Hume then withdrew these two essays after they were printed, possibly due to a threat of prosecution, and replaced them with the essay on Taste. The two withdrawn essays were subsequently published posthumously, first in an anonymous edition in 1777, and then under Hume's name for the first time in 1783.The four essays in this volume subsequently appeared, the first two somewhat expanded, in the 1758 edition of 'Essays and Treatises'.[Based on A Bibliography of David Hume and of Scottish Philosophy from Francis Hutcheson to Lord Balfour (1966), by Thomas Edmund Jessop, pp.33-37.]
I. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION. II. OF THE PASSIONS. III. OF TRAGEDY. IV. OF THE STANDARD OF TASTE.
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I. Essays and Treatises on several Subjects. In 4 Volumes, Duodecimo.
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DISSERTATIONS.
I. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION. II. OF THE PASSIONS. III. OF TRAGEDY. IV. OF THE STANDARD OF TASTE.
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