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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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David Hume
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(1711–76) Scottish philosopher whose work forms an important part of the British tradition of *empiricism. His ideas were fully expressed in his ambitious first book, A Treatise of Human Nature (3 vols, 1739–40). His political and economic theories (which had some influence on his younger contemporary and friend, Adam *Smith) were developed in Essays, Moral and Political (2 vols, 1741–2). In his own time and for many decades after his death he was most widely admired for his History of England (6 vols, 1754–62), spanning the entire period from *Julius Caesar to the *Revolution of 1688.
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