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WT Sharpe · 07-07-2011, 12:37 PM

.....In all my life, did I never meet with a being of a more placid and gentle nature, and it is this amiable turn of his character, that has given more consequence and force to his skepticism, than all the arguments of his sophistry.
..........— Laurence Sterne (1713 –1768), Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican clergyman. Said after disputing with Hume at dinner at the British embassy in Paris. As quoted in Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment by David Edmonds and John Eidinow (2006, page 65).

07-07-2011, 12:37 PM	#1659
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	Rev. Sterne on David Hume .....In all my life, did I never meet with a being of a more placid and gentle nature, and it is this amiable turn of his character, that has given more consequence and force to his skepticism, than all the arguments of his sophistry. ..........— Laurence Sterne (1713 –1768), Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican clergyman. Said after disputing with Hume at dinner at the British embassy in Paris. As quoted in Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment by David Edmonds and John Eidinow (2006, page 65).