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“The History of England. By David Hume. Vol. 5. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co.” Graham’s American Magazine, vol. 36 (1850), p. 223.
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This volume of the cheap Boston edition of Hume is devoted to Charles I. and the Commonwealth; contains the principal alleged offences of the author against the principles of civil and religious liberty, and is, accordingly, that part of his great work which has been made the subject of the most vehement controversies. It is, perhaps, the ablest in style and matter of the whole, and may be profitably read in connection with Macaulay’s views on the same subjects.