The History of England; From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688

Publisher Marketing: Title: The History of England; from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688: by D. Hume ... With a continuation, from that period to the death of George the Second, by Tobias Smollett ... and Chronological Records to the coronation of his present Majesty, George the Fourth, by John Burke ... With numerous engravings. (Historical Questions comprising a series of studies upon the most important passages in Dolby's Universal Histories; commencing with Hume and Smollet's History of England. By Robert Horner.). Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Hume, David; 1825, 24. 6 vol.; 8 . 09504.h.31. Contributor Bio:  Hume, David David Hume was an eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, and the author of A Treatise of Human Nature, considered by many to be one of the most important philosophical works ever published. Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at an early age and considered a career in law before deciding that the pursuit of knowledge was his true calling. Hume's writings on rationalism and empiricism, free will, determinism, and the existence of God would be enormously influential on contemporaries such as Adam Smith, as well as the philosophers like Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Popper, who succeeded him. Hume died in 1776.