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2 février 2018
- handle: 10670/1.31z35i
- isbn: 9782878541083
- eisbn: 9782878548679
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Europe Grande-Bretagne Écosse siècle des Lumières Literature, British Isles International Relations HIS015000 HBJD1Sujets proches
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John Valdimir Price, « David Hume, Sceptical European », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.31z35i
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On a personal and subjective level, David Hume was only too aware of differences between manners and habits in Britain and those in the European country most prominent in his travels and interests, France. Writing from Paris to the historian William Robertson, on 1 December 1763, he said of the course of his life, "I eat nothing but Ambrosia, drinking nothing but Nectar, breathe nothing but Incense, and tread on nothing but Flowers. Every Man I meet, and still more every Lady, wou'd think the...