5 sep, 2009
Israel schrijft in EC 692 in navolging van John Stewart dat Hume een ‘staunch supporter’ werd van de established church. Vreemd.
uit: David Hume’s political theory: law, commerce, and the constitution of government van Neil McArthur
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Edwina Hagen Anti-papisme? 138: GES 50.N.5940
25 nov, 2008
Hume: TLDH Vol 2 App C §2 Fm: Stewart [59] p 347
† * II. From JOHN STEWART (see Letter 164 above)
Paris 1st March
1759
My Dear David
My Father has probably communicated to you a part of two letters I have wrote him from this place. If he has not, tell him I beg he may, as he knows I hate writing much, and it will save me some pages. The principal motive I have for troubling you with an epistle is to express my gratitude for the obligations I owe to your friendship, for under the title of your friend I have been more caressed
here than ever stranger was by people of distinguished merit and a high rank in life. I hinted at your intention of one day paying them a visit and I assure you it gave a most general & unfeigned satisfaction to a great number of People you would like to live with and who, as far as my penetration goes, would be very happy to have you amongst them. If you have any thoughts of making a trip this Summer or Autumn, you need only say the word, and your Passport will be sent you by the return of the Post.
Hume: TLDH Vol 2 App C §2 Fm: Stewart [59] p 348
Madame Dupres your friend is a woman of fortune, fashion, and great good sense remarkably well behaved & generally esteemed. At her house you will see a great deal of the Politest & genteellest Company. Monsr de Trudaine who is equally desirous to see you & to have you at his Country house is a man so well known that I need not tell you the advantages of being acquainted with him. His
son is one of the most amiable Characters in Paris. He has made a translation of your natural History of Religion which is too bulky to send you by the Post but I shall convey it to you by a private hand. To each of these you must send a Copy of your last Volume of the History as also to Monsr Turgot a man of very good sense great knowledge and one of your Admirers. You may add one too for the Chevalier de Chatlus [Chastellux] whom you’ll wish to know when you come here. He learned the English language on purpose to read your works in the Original. All these may be directed to Mr de Trudaine, who being a Minister has every thing brought to him from the different parts of the kingdom very carefully & free of Charges. Pray don’t forget our old friend Helvetius too who says he’ll come to England to see you if you dont come to Paris. He lives in friendship with the above set because they love his aimiable Character at the same time that they have no very high idea of his Philosophy. He certainly is one of the best men ever was formed.
I am charged to make many Compliments to you from Mr Crebillon, Mr du Hamel, the Abbé du Renel [Raynal] & many many more who look for your coming amongst them with the same anxiety & impatience that —-† 1 look for —-† 1 Pray indulge them & me and come next winter. I’ll meet you here soon after the Vintage is over & if you don’t like the Place we’ll return together.
The following books must be purchased & sent at the same time & an Acct of the charge transmitted to me.
Hume: TLDH Vol 2 App C §2 Fm: Stewart [59] p 349
The whole may be sent to the care of Mr. Crawford at ROTTERDAM with orders to forward them to Mr de Trudaines Intendant General des finances & du commerce.
If an Cartel ship is going from Dover to Calais it will save Charges. My father will know by writing a line to Messrs Minet at Dover or sending to the Sick & Wounded Office on Tower Hill.
Messrs Minet will consign the Parcell to their friend at Calais.
Adieu my Dear Sir I won’t tire you any longer. Believe me always most sincerely & respectfully Yours
JOHN STEWART
Please add to the list of books to be purchased & sent here.
No matter whether the Grammars are wrote in Latin or English but the Dictionarys must be double viz Erse & English or Latin and English or Latin & Erse. The same as to the Welsh Dictionary. This commissn is for Mr Turgot who’s a great Etymologist.
Madame du Pres husband is an Antiquarian & wishes to know from Bob Wood the dimensions of the three Pyramids in Egypt in case he measured them. Mr Dupres also wishes to know if there is any book published giving an Acct of the Ancient English moneys & particularly their weights which he says Ld Pembroke has carelessly omitted & which he’s very angry at.
The Principal of the Scots Colledge here is also very angry at your friend Robinson [Robertson] for publishing his book before he came or sent somebody to examine 18 Volumes in folio of Manuscripts & records in the reign of Mary Queen of Scots which they have in this Colledge here.
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To David Hume Esqr
London.
† * III. From JOHN STEWART (see Letter 164 above)
[undated]
My Dear Sir
I wrote to you about a fourthnight ago by the Post. The present goes by a Servant I had brought with me from England who chuses to return because his health does not well bear the fatigue of posting. I send you herewith Mr Montigny de Trudaine’s Translation of your N.H. of R. He’s a very fine Young fellow, a rising man here and a great admirer of yours.
Hume: TLDH Vol 2 App C §3 Fm: Stewart [??] p 350
Besides the books I formerly begged of you to get I must trouble you for some more to be sent with the same address.
For Mr Turgot
For President de Brosses
I’m not sure whether Mr Turgot does not mean by the second Volume of your History what we commonly call the first because he reckons that of the House of Tudor to be really the first.
This is a deal of trouble I give you but ‘tis to serve men who would go to the Indies to serve you, for I’m in great earnest when I tell you that you’re the man of the world they hold in the highest esteem.
Pray remember to write either to Monsr or Made du Pre de St Maur about the different things I recommended in my last & you should also write a short line to Mr Montigny de Trudaine after you have read his translation. A letter from you will at all times give great Satisfaction here. The few you have wrote have been much talked of. I once more repeat to you that your Correspondent Made du Pre de St Maur is without exception the most accomplished woman I ever saw and I also think the most rational & sensible.
I have sent you inclosed Proposals for publishing that fine Map of France you have heard so much of. Tis under the direction of the Academy and there are 31 Sheets already struck off. These I have seen and they are inimitably well done. Pray communicate these proposals to the curious for they are vastly surprized here in having as yet had only 25 subscriptions from Great Britain. Adieu.
J.S.
[Written in Hume’s hand:
The Irish Bible
A Grammar & Dictionary of Irish
Harris instead of Gerrard de Malines]
Hume: TLDH Vol 2 App C §3 Fm: Stewart [??] Fn * p 349
† * MS., R.S.E., unpublished.