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“For the Port Folio. ART. XV. — The Adversaria,” The Port Folio, vol. 9 [series 5] (1820), pp. 131–5; selection p. 135.
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In the brief relation which Hume gives of his life and writings, he begins with mentioning his natural disposition always to look on the bright side of events; a disposition, he says, worth more than a thousand pounds per annum. — Speaking afterwards of the very dull sale of his first historical work, he says he was so mortified that he had serious thoughts of changing his name and leaving his country, to avoid shame and hide his chagrin. Was this looking at the bright side?