...Leo Leonard Camp Leo Leonard Cam# 499 The Forgotten Hume, Le Bon David. By ERNESTCAMPBELL Moss- NER. New York : Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. xv + 251. $3.00. Professor Mossner says of this work, “This is a study in per- sonality...

...Edward G. Cox 500 Reviews seau with great generosity and patience, Hume fell victim to that poet’s morbid suspicions and was forced to defend himself publicly. Professor Mossner definitely establishes Hume’s innocence in this affair. The later essays are given...

...Maurice J. Quinlan Ernest Campbell Mossner. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1954. pp. xx + 683. $7.50. Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 362 Reviews English to unprecedented heights, it had subsequently fallen into decay, had once more...

... unmistakable echoes of an earlier day” (p. 323). DAVIDC. FOWLER University of Washington Life of David Hume. By ERNESTCAMPBELL MOSSNER. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1954. Pp. xx 4- 683. $7.50. Mr. Mossner’s object in this book...

... of the details supplied in the early chapters, though necessary to a biography that aims at completeness, lack dramatic interest. But given more eventful material, Mr. Mossner proves his taste and skill as a biographer. Where a less sensitive writer might have made the friendship between Hume...

.... Prouty.] Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Studies, vol. XVII, no. 2, 1942. Pp. 305. $2.50. Mossner, Ernest Campbell. The Forgotten Hurne. Le bon David. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. xv + 251. $3.00. Shumaker, Eri J. A Concise Bibliography of the Complete...

... that “this operation of the mind, which forms the belief of any matter of fact, seems hitherto to have been one of the greatest mysteries of philosophy; tho’ no one has so much as suspected, that there was any difficulty in explaining it” (quoted in Ernest Campbell Mossner, The Life ofDavid Hume, 2d ed...

...”; Ernest Campbell Mossner, “Adam Ferguson’s ‘Dialogue on a High- land Jaunt’ with Robert Adam, William Cleghorn, David Hume, and William Wilkie”; Aubrey L. Williams, “Pope and Horace: The Second Epistle of the Second Book”; David Daiches, “The Identity of Burns”; W. K. Wimsatt, Jr...

...”; Walter J. Hipple, Jr., “Philosophical Language and the Theory of Beauty iri tlic Eighteenth Century”; Ernest Campbell Mossner, “Hume’s ‘Of Criticism’ ”: Robert M. Kyley, “William Warburton as ‘New Critic’ ”; Scott Elledge, “I’Iie Naked Science of Language, 1747-1786”; Geoffrey...

... mention George Sherburn’s Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934), which has been of such importance in the new appreciation of that poet, Lewis M. Knapp’s Smollett (1949), Ernest C. Mossner’s Hume (1954), Peter Smithers’ Addison (1954), R. W. Ketton-Cremer’s Gray (1955), Robert Halsband’s Lady...

.... 122). Although Hartley implies that persons have no central coherence, he does not actually discuss the problem of personal identity. 8 A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. Ernest C. Mossner (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1969), pp. 299-300; hereafter cited as Treatise. 360...

... to human intelligence” (Dia- r0gUe.s Concerning NuturaZReZigion, ed. Richard H. Popkin [Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 19801, p. 88). 32 At least it is what he is supposed to have told Baron d’Holbach and his circle at a din- ner party in Paris. Cf. Ernest C. Mossner, The Life ofDavid Hum (Austin...

... of Human Nature , edited by Mossner Ernest C. . London : Penguin . Jones Steven E. 2000 . Satire and Romanticism . New York : Palgrave . Kemp-Smith Norman . (1941) 2005 . The Philosophy of David Hume: A Critical Study of Its Origins and Central Doctrines . Houndmills...