CONTENTS
[ THE LIFE OF DAVID HUME, ESQ. ]
[ HISTORY OF ENGLAND. ]
[ CHAPTER I. ]
[ THE BRITONS. ]
[ THE ROMANS. ]
[ THE BRITONS. ]
[ THE SAXONS. ]
[ THE HEPTARCHY ]
[ THE KINGDOM OF KENT ]
[ THE KINGDOM OF NORTHUMBERLAND ]
[ THE KINGDOM OF EAST ANGLIA ]
[ THE KINGDOM OF MERCIA ]
[ THE KINGDOM OF ESSEX. ]
[ THE KINGDOM OF SUSSEX. ]
[ THE KINGDOM OF WESSEX. ]
[ CHAPTER II. ]
[ EGBERT. ]
[ ETHELWOLF. ]
[ ETHELBALD AND ETHELBERT. ]
[ ETHERED ]
[ ALFRED. ]
[ EDWARD THE ELDER. ]
[ ATHELSTAN. ]
[ EDMUND. ]
[ EDRED ]
[ EDWY ]
[ EDGAR ]
[ EDWARD THE MARTYR ]
[ CHAPTER III. ]
[ ETHELRED ]
[ EDMOND IRONSIDE ]
[ CANUTE ]
[ HAROLD HAREFOOT ]
[ HARDICANUTE ]
[ EDWARD THE CONFESSOR ]
[ HAROLD ]
[ APPENDIX I. ]
[ CHAPTER IV. ]
[ WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. ]
[ CHAPTER V. ]
[ WILLIAM RUFUS. ]
[ CHAPTER VI. ]
[ HENRY I. ]
[ CHAPTER VII. ]
[ STEPHEN. ]
[ CHAPTER VIII. ]
[ HENRY II. ]
[ CHAPTER IX. ]
[ HENRY II. ]
[ CHAPTER X. ]
[ RICHARD I. ]
[ CHAPTER XI. ]
[ JOHN. ]
[ APPENDIX II. ]
[ THE FEUDAL AND ANGLO-NORMAN GOVERNMENT AND MANNERS. ]
[ NOTES. ]
ILLUSTRATIONS
[ Frontispiece: Portrait of Hume. ]
[ Titlepage: Boadicea Haranguing the Britons ]
[ Alfred Before the Danish General ]
[ William II. ]
[ Henry I. ]
[ Stephen ]
[ Henry II. ]
[ Richard I. ]
[ John ]
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THE LIFE OF DAVID HUME, ESQ.
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
MY OWN LIFE.
It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity; therefore I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life; but this narrative shall contain little more than the history of my writings; as, indeed, almost all my life has been spent in literary pursuits and occupations. The first success of most of my writings was not such as to be an object of vanity.