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Hume on Refinement, 12 pages (14 December 1792) Hume, David(originally anonymous) ‘Of simplicity and
refinement'
in
Essays, moral and political.
Volume II.
1742 In
1748 edition, retitled ‘Of
simplicity and refinement in writing.' Incorporated into
Essays and treatises on several subjects 1753-6 edition and thereafter. In the
1777 and
1788 editions
of Hume's works, this essay is volume 1, part 1, essay XX. OR
Hume, David (originally anonymous) ‘Of luxury'
in
Political discourses. 1752 This essay was retitled ‘Of refinement in the arts' and
included in
Essays, moral political and literary:
Vol. I of
Essays and treatises on several subjects,
1760. In the
1777 and
1788 editions of Hume's
works, this essay is volume 1, part 2, essay II. WG's sale catalog
lists:
Hume's (David) Essays and Treatises, 2 vol.
1788.
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