 ... law, which was the business I designed to follow, appeared nauseous to me, and I could think of no other way of pushing my fortune in the world but that of a scholar and philosopher. I was infinitely happy 'in this course of life for some months,...  The North British Review - Page 4861847Full view - About this book
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...happy in this course of life for some months ; till at last, about the beginning of September, 1729, all my ardour seemed in a moment to be extinguished, and I could no longer raise my mind to thf,t pitch, which formerly gave me such excessive pleasure. " In accounting for his disorder, he thus... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...happy in this course of life for some months ; till at last, about the beginning of September, 1729, all my ardour seemed in a moment to be extinguished,...pitch which formerly gave me such excessive pleasure." This "decline of soul" Hume attributes, in part, to his being smitten with the beautiful representations... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1886 - 262 pages
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 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 346 pages
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 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 pages
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 | James Orr - 1903 - 268 pages
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 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1914 - 344 pages
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 | Ben-Ami Scharfstein Professor of Philosophy Tel-Aviv University - Philosophy - 1980 - 502 pages
...'about the beginning of September 1729, all my Ardor seem'd in a moment to be extinguish!, & I cou'd no longer raise my Mind to that pitch, which formerly gave me such excessive Pleasure.' This condition, which naturally made Hume uneasy, lasted for nine months. In his opinion, the 'Distemper,'... | |
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