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MY OWN LIFE





David Hume



1777





5/1/95




Copyright 1995, James Fieser ([email protected]). See end note for
details on copyright and editing conventions. This is a working
draft; please report errors.[1]


Editor's note: Anticipating his death, Hume wrote in
April 1776 for inclusion in the next edition of his Treatises on Several Subjects>. His instructions are given in letter
to Adam Smith: "You will find among my Papers a very inoffensive
Piece, called , which I composed a few days before I
left Edinburgh, which I thought, as did all my Friends, that my
Life was despaired of. There can be no Objection, that this small
piece should be sent to Messrs Strahan and Cadell and the
Proprietors of my other Works to be prefixed to any future Edition
of them" (, Greig, Vol. 2, p. 318). In March of 1777,
Hume's and Smith's Strahan, Esq.> (the latter of which describes the last four months
of Hume's life) were published under the title Hume, Esq. written by himself>. The pamphlet is prefaced with the
following note by the editor:



M/R\ H/UME\, a few months before his death, wrote the following

short account of his own life; and, in a codicil to his will,

desired that it might be prefixed to the next edition of his

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