The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 117
cellus, in the year ofRome 704, It is from Cicero that we may form an idea of themerit of Hortensius. His memory faithful and reten-tive, he observes, recalled to him every thing heconceived; the same words, the same things, and thesame plan. His style assumed, at times, an Asiatic tone,from the… … HUME. David Hume was born at Edinburgh, on the 26th ofApril, 1711, of a family distinguished rather by its rankthan its opulence. While he was yet in his infancy hisfather died, and he continued under the watchful care ofhis mother, who, though still young and handsome, re-jected every overture…
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