Die Geschichte Englands, Band I
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Status:
- Vollständiges Werk
- Autorschaft:
- Vom Autor verfasst
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- Sauberer Text
- Umfang:
- ~250.000 Wörter · 1.188 Passagen
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- APADavid Hume. (n.d.). Die Geschichte Englands, Band I. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/david-hume/the-history-of-england-volume-i
- MLADavid Hume. "Die Geschichte Englands, Band I." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/de/works/david-hume/the-history-of-england-volume-i.
- ChicagoDavid Hume. Die Geschichte Englands, Band I. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/david-hume/the-history-of-england-volume-i.
Wovon es handelt
Humes Geschichte Englands: der erste Band eines Werkes, das von Caesars Einfall bis zur Revolution von 1688 reicht.
Kontext und Geschichte
Eines sollte man sich vergegenwärtigen, weil es heute überrascht: Zu Lebzeiten war Hume vor allem als Historiker bekannt, nicht als Philosoph. Dieses Buch brachte ihm Ruhm und Geld, während der Traktat über die menschliche Natur unbeachtet blieb. Er schrieb es rückwärts, beginnend mit den Stuarts, und man warf ihm zugleich Toryismus und Kälte gegenüber der Religion vor. Über ein halbes Jahrhundert lang war es die maßgebliche Geschichte Englands, und es ist ein Werk dieser Gattung ebenso wie eine Quelle über das Denken seines Verfassers.
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Like much 18th and 19th century publishing, the edition of David Hume's "History of England" from which this text was prepared makes extensive use of both footnotes and marginal notes. Since this e-text format does not allow use of the original superscripts to denote the lettered footnotes, they are indicated by the relevant letter within brackets, thus "[a]", and the footnotes themselves are reproduced within brackets and preceded by "FN" at the end of the PARAGRAPH to which they relate; since some of Hume's paragraphs are considerably longer than is normal in 21st century American or British writing, you may have to scroll some distance to find the text of the footnote. All footnotes are reproduced exactly as in the printed text. More discretion has been exercised regarding marginal notes. Those which simply repeat chapter numbers and dates already given in the text are omitted as non-essential clutter. The remainder are reproduced within brackets and preceded by "MN". Those marginal notes which appear to correspond to sub-chapter headings are reproduced as the first line of the paragraph to which they relate. Other marginal notes are reproduced within the text of the paragraph. Some apparently incomplete marginal notes ending or beginning with ellipses are due to cases where what is logically a single marginal note has been broken into two or more pieces separated by a considerable vertical distance. THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND, VOLUME I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by DAVID HUME, ESQ. With the Author's Last Corrections and Improvements, to which is prefixed a Short Account of His Life Written by Himself COMPLETE IN SIX VOLUMES MY OWN LIFE. It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity; therefore I shall be short.…