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The Philosophical Works of David Hume, vol. 3 (Essays Moral, Political, and Literary) (1828 ed.)

An 1828 edition of the Essays, Moral, Political and Literary.

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The Philosophical Works of David Hume. Including all the Essays, and exhibiting the more important Alterations and Corrections in the successive Editions by the Author. In Four Volumes. (Edinburgh: Adam Black and William Tait, 1826). Vol. 3.

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