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History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1B
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1B
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1B
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History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1B

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David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and renown; his historical writing earned his bread and butter. His "The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688", published between 1754 and 1764, was immensely popular and Hume wrote that "the copy-money given me by the booksellers much exceeded any thing formerly known in England; I was become not only independent, but opulent." The six volume work has had numerous editions and is still in print today. David Hume and Thomas Babington Macaulay have frequently been compared as the premier English historians but we don't have to choose because Macaulay begins where Hume leaves off. This is Volume 1B which covers the reigns of Henry III to Richard III. (Summary by Richard Carpenter)
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Release dateAug 25, 2014
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1B
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David Hume

David Hume was an eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, and the author of A Treatise of Human Nature, considered by many to be one of the most important philosophical works ever published. Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at an early age and considered a career in law before deciding that the pursuit of knowledge was his true calling. Hume’s writings on rationalism and empiricism, free will, determinism, and the existence of God would be enormously influential on contemporaries such as Adam Smith, as well as the philosophers like Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Popper, who succeeded him. Hume died in 1776.

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