| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 686 pages
...gentleman old enough to have Inown the tact, and respectable enough to be emitted to full belief. ' It seems that Hume received a religious education from his mother, and early in life was tlie subject of strong and hopeful religious impressions ; but as he approached manhood they were effaced,... | |
| Lutheran Church - 1830 - 304 pages
...Spain. HUME. The infidel, Hume, received a religious education from his pioin mother, and in early life was 'the subject of strong and hopeful religious impressions; but as he approached manhood they wtre effaced, and filial love arid reverence were absorbed in the pride of philosophical skepticism.... | |
| Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1832 - 442 pages
...thought old enough to have known the fact, and respectable enough to be entitled to full belief. ' It seems that Hume received a religious * education...was ' the subject of strong and hopeful religious im' pressions ; but as he approached manhood they ' were effaced, and confirmed infidelity succeeded.... | |
| Periodicals - 1833 - 460 pages
...HIS MOTHER.— Hume, the historian, received a religions education from his mother, and early in k'fe was the subject of strong and hopeful religious impressions;...confirmed infidelity succeeded. Maternal partiality, alarmed at first, came at length to look with less and less pain upon this declension, and filial love... | |
| Periodicals - 1833 - 270 pages
...Parliament, to borrow 25,000/., for the cost of its erection. DAVID HUME AND HIS MOTHER. HUME, the historian, received a religious education from his mother, and,...subject of strong and hopeful religious impressions j but, as he approached manhood, they were effaced, and confirmed infidelity succeeded. Maternal partiality,... | |
| Theology - 1845 - 632 pages
...early in life was the subject of strong and hopeful religions impressions ; but as he approached to manhood, they were effaced, and confirmed infidelity...Maternal partiality, however alarmed at first, came to look with less and less pain upon this declaration, and filial love and reverence seem to hare been... | |
| 1846 - 404 pages
...great minds and good men from every rank and party.— Cheever's Lectures. DAVID HUME AND HIS MOTHER. IT seems that Hume received a religious education...hopeful religious impressions, but as he approached to manhood they were effaced, and confirmed infidelity succeeded. Maternal partiality, however alarmed... | |
| Kazlitt Arvine - Anecdotes - 1850 - 882 pages
...wish to be an infidel for the comfort of it. (rf) DEATH OF HUME'S MOTHER. — Hume, the historian, received a religious education from his mother, and early in life was a subject of strong and hopeful religious impressions ; but, as he approached manhood, they were effaced,... | |
| Davis Wasgatt Clark - Christian martyrs - 1851 - 592 pages
...inexorable chain Ka•t binds, and reugcance ckims the full «m-ar."—Youso. Hr.ME, the historian, received a religious education from his mother, and...succeeded. Maternal partiality, however alarmed at first, owne'at length to look with less and less pain on this delusion, and filial love and reverence seemed... | |
| Missions - 1859 - 970 pages
...Ghost." * Death of Hume's Mot/ter. — HUME, the historian, received a religious education from lus mother, and early in life was the subject of strong...but, as he approached manhood, they were effaced, aud confirmed infidelity succeeded. Maternal partiality, however, alarmed at first, came at length... | |
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