Description
8vo, pp. [iv], iv, 47, [1]. Extracted from a volume. Running marginal stain throughout not touching text, some dampmarking to final few leaves. Half-title detached.
A Letter to Adam Smith LL.D. on the Life, Death, and Philosophy of his Friend David Hume Esq. by one of the People called Christians. The Second Edition.
- Oxford: At The Clarendon Press 1777
- ESTC T87985.
£350
Notes
A scarce argumentative pamphlet haranguing both Smith and Hume for lack of consideration for their immortal souls, written by the then-chaplain-in-ordinary to the Royal Household George Horne. It is particularly concerned with the lack of religious feeling in Smith's 'Life of David Hume' but has a postscript in which Horne summarises 'Mr Hume's doctrines, metaphysical and moral' and finds them wanting.
