Humphry Clinker (20 page)

Pike, Nelson, edited with commentary, Indianapolis, 1970.

Popkin, Richard, edited, together with
Of the Immortality of the Soul
and
Of Suicide
, Indianapolis, 1980.

Price, John V., edited, together with
The Natural History of Religion
, edited by A. W. Colver, Oxford 1976.

Gaskin, J. C. A.,
Hume's Philosophy of Religion
, London, 1978. Deals with all Hume's writings on religion, from an analytic point of view.

Hall, R.,
Fifty Years of Hume Scholarship: A Bibliographical Guide
, Edinburgh, 1978. Covers publications on Hume from 1925 to 1976. See entries in the index under ‘Religion'.

Jeffner, A.,
Butler and Hume on Religion
, Stockholm, 1966. A useful comparative analysis, with considerable historical material.

Jones, P.,
Hume's Sentiments
, Edinburgh, 1982. An excellent, scholarly account of Hume's relations particularly to Cicero and French authors. Includes a fine chapter on scepticism in religion.

Mossner, E. C,
The Life of David Hume
, Oxford, 1970. The authoritative modern biography.

Popkin, R. H.,
The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza
, Berkeley, 1979. An indispensable scholarly study of the sceptical tradition, to which Hume belonged; essential for understanding religious scepticism and fideism.

Tweyman, S.,
Scepticism and Belief in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
, Dordrecht, 1986. A detailed and interesting study making use of much recent research.

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I would like to thank Christopher Bernard for his helpful comments on a draft of this Introduction.

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Chrysippus apud Plut: de repug: Stoicorum
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L'Art de penser
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Monsr. Huet
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Recherche de la Verite. Liv.3. Chap.9.
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Lib. II. 1094
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De. nat. Deor. Lib. I.
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République des Lettres.
Août 1685.

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Dr Clarke
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That sentiment had been maintained by Dr King and some few others before
Leibniz;
though by none of so great a fame as that German philosopher.
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De formatione foetus.
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Lib. 6 Cap. 54
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Iphigenia in Tauride
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