Word: hume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smollett," said Hume, "was like a coco-nut, rough outside, but full of human kindness within." This same phrase describes in a nutshell, his works...
Marcus Antoninus "as good or better than Jesus." She corresponded with Rousseau, whom she deemed to have known few fine women. She read Toland, Tindal, Hume, Locke, Grey, Campion, Herrick, Pope and Shakespeare, among others, never without intelligent commentary. On a pamphlet by John Woolman, the Quaker, noted that he had "used B. Franklin and D. Hall of Philadelphia" as his printers. "A new book," she said, "is always the event of the week...
...readable than the average run of best-seller fiction, not excepting the direct quotations from philosophic works, which are invariably well chosen to promote clarity and to demonstrate flavors. As a textbook for classrooms it has obvious shortcomings - the jump from Aristotle to Bacon; the skimming of Descartes and Hume. But it is something of a service to the unphilosophical public to have published such a book just prior to the convening [in September, at Harvard (TIME, April 5)] of the first International Philosophical Congress ever to be held in the New World...
Married. Cyril Hume, novelist (Wife of the Centaur, Cruel Fellowship), to Miss Charlotte Dickinson of Grand Rapids, after meeting her for the first time at the wedding of Novelist Bronson (see above), at which he functioned as best man and she as honor maid. Novelist Hume's first wife, the onetime Jane Barbara Alexander, died last year in Florence, Italy, (TIME, June 1, MILESTONES...
...Author. Martin Hume of England brings scholarly documentation to his task. He was the official editor of the Spanish State Papers of the period (Public Record office), a careful student of all other relevant material, some of it newly accessible. He is author also of The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth, currently republished to match this volume. "Infernal Searchers...