Titles Edited by Dugald Stewart

1753 – 1828

Stewart was a Scottish philosopher who studied at Edinburgh University, becoming first professor of mathematics and then later succeeding Adam Smith as professor of moral philosophy. He was a Whig who favored the early stage of the French Revolution.

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Titles

The Theory of Moral Sentiments and on the Origins of Languages (Stewart ed.)

Adam Smith

The Works of William Robertson in Eight Volumes (1840)

William Robertson

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