Scottish philosopher and historian; author of Essays Moral and Political (1741-42), Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748) and History of Great Britain (1754-62).

REFERENCES TO David Hume:

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 20 November 1792 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Samuel Newton to William Godwin, 14 December 1793 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Lord Lansdowne to William Roscoe, [January? 1795] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833)

Sydney Smith to an anonymous correspondent, on education, [1800 c.?] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, [1 March 1800] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 21 May 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 8 July 1801 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Joseph Cooper Walker to William Roscoe, [July? 1805] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833)

Sir Richard Philips to William Godwin, 26 June 1805 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Robert Southey to John Rickman, 23 December 1806 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Sir Jonah Barrington to Lady Morgan, 5 July [1809] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 26 March 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 20 December 1811 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 2 October 1815 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

John Murray to Lord Byron, 13 December 1816 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 April 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 10 July 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Sydney Smith to Douglas Smith, [Summer 1820] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Lord Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 6 February 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 February 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

James Kennedy to John Cam Hobhouse, 11 November 1824 in Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830)

Sir James Mackintosh to Samuel Rogers, 9 December 1824 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Robert Southey to Henry Taylor, 31 December 1825 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Thomas Moore to Sydney Smith, [August] 1843 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)