Authors: David Edmonds
French National Assembly, 255, 261â62
French Revolution, 255, 261, 290, 292
friendship, 31, 149, 216
JJR's views on, 3, 6, 30, 32, 33, 148, 152, 175, 237, 270â72
Fuseli, Henry, 212
galante
, 77â78
Garrick, David, 22, 93, 97â101, 122, 191, 300
Garrick, Mrs., 97, 98, 101
Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy
(Reynolds), 98
Gazette de France,
186, 292
Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser,
93
Gazette littéraire,
206
general will, 138, 139â40, 261
Geneva, 5â7, 12â13, 51, 87, 106, 142, 194, 241, 290
French influence on, 37, 48
Party of Liberty in, 48, 227
Petit Conseil of, 37â38, 47â48, 294
theater in, 29â30
Gentleman's Magazine,
166, 211, 246
Gentlemen's Society, 243, 245
Geoffrin, Mme, 69â70, 159
George II, King of England, 39, 297, 300
George III, King of England, 20, 23, 57, 97â102, 224, 237, 296, 297, 300
Conway's relationship with, 55, 127, 128, 149, 219, 299
DH and, 60, 63, 65, 127
DH-JJR conflict and, 204, 211
at Drury Lane, 97â101
Grenville's relationship with, 61â62, 296, 301, 302
Ramsay and, 119, 120, 121, 297
royal pensions and, 91, 127, 128â29, 131, 176â78, 184, 186, 187, 188, 219, 236, 253, 256
Georgel, Abbé, 66â67
Gibbon, Edward, 44â45
Girardin, Marquis de, 255 Gisors, 250â52
Glorious Revolution, 24
God, 144â47
DH's views on, 146, 147, 258
JJR's views on, 145, 229, 254
Goldsmith, Oliver, 68, 101
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 54, 219, 237, 299, 300â301, 303
Graham, Henry Grey, 254
Granville, Bernard, 224, 226, 233, 239, 241, 272, 300, 301, 302
Gray, Thomas, 160
Great Britain:
colonies of, 56â57, 128, 258, 299â302
Treaty of Paris and, 53, 56â57
see also
England; Scotland; Wales
Greek “Tale,” 167
Grenville, George, 23, 60, 61â62, 127, 301
Rockingham's takeover from, 54, 62, 299, 301, 302
Grimm, Friedrich, 28â31, 75, 109, 289
in Confessions, 127
on DH, 14, 73â74, 89
DH-JJR conflict and, 211, 214â15
on JJR, 4, 87, 89, 166, 172, 222
JJR's break with, 30â31, 214â15, 290
on objects of mutual desire, 58â59
Grosley, Pierre Jean, 103
Guibert, Comte, 291
Gustav III, King of Sweden, 75
Guy, Pierre, 115, 204
Handel, George Frideric, 224
Hazlitt, William, 262
Helvétius, Claude Adrien, 38, 159, 164, 290, 295
Henault, Charles Jean François, 164
Hermitage, 28, 31, 33, 82, 290
Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Earl of, 52â55, 52, 59â61, 62â63, 219, 301â2
DH-JJR conflict and, 198, 210, 270
Hertford, Lady, 54, 58, 63, 219
Hervey, Lady, 90, 164
Hill, Aaron, 99
Hill, G. Birkbeck, 1, 179
history, DH's contribution to, 2, 19, 21â24, 25, 136, 142, 262â63
History of England
(Hume), 21â27, 94, 145, 186, 243, 256, 257, 262â63
History of the House of Tudor
(Hume), 23
Hobbes, Thomas, 138
Hogarth, William, 114
Holbach, Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d', 190, 201, 289â91
DH-JJR conflict and, 183â86, 190, 201, 203, 205â6, 215, 216â17
DH's correspondence with, 127, 131, 183â86, 198, 200, 204, 205, 216â17
DH's warning from, 90, 126, 183, 291
JJR's finances and, 131, 186, 198â99, 201
salon of, 29, 72â74, 183, 292
Holland, Lord, 72
Home, Catherine, 15
Home, John (Hume's brother), 15, 125, 129â30
DH's correspondence with, 4, 17â18, 96, 97, 126
Home, Joseph, 15
Home, Katherine, 15, 19, 24
Home, Rev. John (Hume's cousin), 20
Houdetot, Countess Sophie d', 28, 34, 82, 290, 293
House of Commons, British, 54, 55, 219, 299
House of Lords, British, 219
Howitt, William, 223
human nature, 137, 142
Hume, David, 1â4, 14â27, 59â101, 119â38, 141â53
career blocks of, 17, 19, 63â64, 144
career paths of, 15â27
Chiswick selection and, 112â13
death of, 257â60
as diplomat, 2â3, 17â18, 26, 53â54, 57, 59â67, 120, 219, 236, 299, 302
education of, 15â16
as empiricist, 134â35, 146
finances of, 16â19, 21, 24, 53, 62, 63, 256
French women and, 68â73, 83
good nature of, 3, 4, 14â15, 84, 211, 272
as historian, 2, 19, 21â24, 64, 77, 136, 138, 142, 262â63
JJR befriended by, 3, 4, 40â41, 80â92, 94, 96â98, 103â6, 112â13, 122â27, 147, 172, 174, 175, 181â84, 194, 212, 216, 217, 266, 270, 288
JJR compared with, 133â34, 141â48, 268
JJR's correspondence with, 42â43, 84â85, 126, 129, 141, 148, 151, 156â57, 163, 174â75, 178â83, 180, 187â89, 192â94, 201, 202â3, 216, 222, 266
JJR's royal pension and, 41, 91, 127, 128â29, 131, 176â79, 184, 186, 188, 195, 201, 202, 236, 237, 241, 267
JJR's unnerving experience with, 91, 173, 187
King of Prussia letter and, 132, 157, 159â66, 188, 194, 200, 202, 203, 218, 266, 268, 270
name change of, 15
as philosopher, 2, 16, 17, 19, 41, 59, 63â64, 73, 77, 133â38, 146â47, 211, 263â64
physical appearance of, 1, 17â18, 68, 71, 72, 119â21, 190, 258
posthumous reputation of, 262â63
Ramsay's portrait of, 1, 119â20, 257, 297â98
rationalism of, 14, 124, 146, 147, 148, 193, 272â73
retour chaise affair and, 151â52, 156â57, 174, 175, 192â93, 269
skepticism of, 53, 67, 74, 123, 134â36, 146, 147, 148, 260â61
solitude as viewed by, 123â24, 132â33, 143, 153, 220
spirit of irreligion of, 22, 134, 144â47, 258, 259â60
writing style of, 189
see also specific works
Hume-Rousseau conflict, 157â230, 241, 297
DH's acting out of character and, 266â73
DH's publishing and, 185, 206â12, 218, 270
DH's publishing concerns and, 185, 196â99, 202â6
DH's reputation concerns and, 183â87, 209, 218, 256, 272
JJR's allegations and, 172â75, 180â83, 180, 226, 267, 268
JJR's detailed indictment and, 187â89, 191, 192, 212
JJR's metaphorical slapping and, 188, 192
twelve lies and, 193â94, 203
see also
King of Prussia letter
Humphrey Clinker
(Smollett), 95, 102
inner self, 2, 6, 31
instincts, 136, 137â38
intimacy, JJR's need for, 109
Ireland, 62â63, 253, 302
Isham, Ralph, 117â18
Isle Saint-Pierre, 50â51, 85, 116, 294
Ivernois, François-Henri d', 170, 227, 294
Ivernois, Jean-Antoine d', 294
Jacobites, 39, 297
James I, King of England, 21
Jefferson, Thomas, 263
Jessop, Edmund, 245
Johnson, Samuel, vii, 22, 78, 112, 119, 180, 260, 295, 301, 302
on DH, 189
Kant, Immanuel, 140, 260â61
Kildare, Marchioness of, 225
King of Prussia letter, 132, 157â68, 178, 188, 194, 200, 203, 215, 244, 268, 270
authorship of, 132, 158, 160, 161, 165, 172, 268
d'Alembert's disavowal of, 206
DH's quip and, 164, 202, 266
JJR's response to, 165, 166, 171, 188
other French letters after, 167â68
parody response to JJR and, 166â67
Walpole rebuked for, 206, 212, 213
knowledge, 9, 134, 144
Lake Neuchâtel, 37, 38
La Roche (Luxembourg's servant), 35, 186
Laud, Archbishop, 23
Leigh, Ralph A., 127, 183, 195, 244
Lennox, Lady Sarah, 53
L'Espinasse, Julie de, 70â71, 152
d'Alembert's devotion to, 71, 287, 289, 291
DH-JJR conflict and, 185, 199, 201, 268
DH's correspondence with, 185
Lethe
(Garrick), 98, 101
“Letter from M. Voltaire to M. Jean-Jacques Rousseau”
(Lettre de M. de Voltaire au docteur J. J. Pansophe)
(parody), 166â67
Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who See
(Diderot), 9
Letters from the Country
(Jean-Robert Tronchin), 48, 294
Letters of David Hume to William Strahan
(Hill, ed.), 1
Letters Written from the Mountain
(Rousseau), 48, 168
Letter to a Member of the National Assembly,
A (Burke), 261â62
Letter to Christophe de Beaumont
(Rousseau), 47
Letter to d'Alembert on the Theater
(Rousseau), 29
Le Vasseur, Thérèse, 46, 251, 291, 292
appearance of, 11, 88, 109
Boswell's relationship with, 46â47, 107, 109, 112, 117â19, 296
Conway's dinner invitation and, 149, 151
DH's views on, 88, 105, 107, 241, 266
English of, 222, 223
in flight from Wootton Hall, 240â42, 245, 247
health problems of, 233, 235
JJR's correspondence with, 110, 117
JJR's relationship with, 3, 11, 12, 28, 36, 38, 46, 49, 50, 105â11, 149, 194, 247, 250, 252, 291
JJR's separations from, 3, 36, 50, 85, 88, 98, 105â8, 113, 116â18
journey to England of, 112, 116â19
in London, 118, 124, 172, 173
marriages of, 252, 291
mother of, 11, 12, 28, 49, 110
at Wootton Hall, 154, 219, 222, 223, 227, 233, 235, 238
Lincolnshire, 238, 240
Lindsay, Lady Anne, 14
Lisbon, 80, 147
Liston, Robert, 88
Lloyd's Evening Post,
100â101, 205, 246
Lloyd's Evening Register,
166
Locke, John, 189
logic, 135, 137, 146
London, 22â25, 41, 53, 64, 82, 113, 143, 155, 235
booksellers in, 22, 94, 104, 171
crime in, 104
described, 102â5
DH in, 4, 16, 18, 22â23, 68, 80, 89, 92â98, 118, 124, 132, 150, 172â74, 294â95, 296
DH-JJR conflict in, 191, 198, 207, 211â14, 218, 226
JJR in, 4, 68, 92â107, 112, 119â24, 150, 151, 172â74, 266, 293, 295
JJR's views on, 42, 102, 105, 112, 113
King of Prussia letter in, 132, 157â58, 161, 164â65, 188
Mme de Boufflers in, 78, 266
Ramsay's studio in, 119â23, 298
as supposed JJR destination, 235, 241
theater in, 93, 97â102
London Chronicle,
59â60, 93, 94, 165, 166, 205, 211, 244, 246
London Evening Post,
99â100
London Magazine,
211
Louis, Dauphin (son of Louis XV), 66, 152
Louis XV, King of France, 12, 44, 66, 142, 288, 291â92
Louis XVI, King of France, 66
Louis XVIII, King of France, 66
Louth, 234, 242
Lucian, 259
Lunar Society, 223
Luxembourg, Charles-François-Frédéric de Montmorency-Luxembourg, Maréchal de France, Duc de, 31â32, 33, 34, 36, 186, 216, 292
Luxembourg, Madeleine-Angélique de, 31, 32, 35, 76, 107, 117, 152, 160, 292
Luze, Jean-Jacques de, 85, 88â91
Luze, Mme de, 155, 221
Lyon, 8, 252
Mably, M. de, 8
Macaulay, Thomas B., 52, 154, 263
Madison, James, 262
Maiden
(Voltaire), 38
Malesherbes, Lamoignon de, 34, 74, 141, 249
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 17â18
Marischal, Keith George, tenth Earl Marischal, 42â45, 128, 144, 297
background of, 39
DH-JJR conflict and, 203â4, 217
DH's friendship with, 40, 42â43
JJR's correspondence with, 119, 175, 177, 217
JJR's relationship with, 39â40, 44, 49, 83, 84, 91, 127, 217, 237, 297
JJR's royal pension and, 91, 127, 128, 175, 177
Marmontel, Jean-François, 188, 199
Marx, Karl, 140
Maty, Matthew, 96
Meinières, Mme de, 184, 190â91, 192
Memoirs
(Rockingham), 96â97
Memoirs of George III
(Walpole), 95, 128
Millar, Andrew, 25
Monthly Review,
22, 129, 230, 231
DH-JJR conflict and, 211, 212
Montigny, Jean-Charles Trudaine de, 131, 153, 203, 249
Mont-Louis, 31â32, 35â36, 82
Montmorency, 28, 32â33, 43, 76, 107, 232, 292
Morellet, Abbé André, 199, 292
Morley, John, 228
Mossner, Ernest Campbell, 71, 74, 90â91
Môtiers, 38â47, 51, 82, 83, 170, 260
JJR attacked in, 49â50, 144
JJR sent money in, 186
visitors to, 44â47, 271, 294
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 70, 75
music, 240, 251
JJR's talents in, 8, 9, 10, 12, 28â29, 40, 49, 82, 156, 218â19, 253
My Own Life
(Hume), 53, 67, 257, 272
Natural History of Religion
(Hume), 131, 292
Natural Son, The
(Diderot), 29
nature, 135, 138, 139, 143, 254â55, 262
JJR's views on, 2, 28, 34, 120, 124, 138â39, 143, 145, 156
Necker, Jacques, 44, 204
Necker, Suzanne (née Curchod), 44, 45, 69, 183
Neuchâtel, 38â47, 50, 87, 88, 113, 171, 293, 297
Nicomachean Ethics
(Aristotle), 271
Nivernois, Duc de, 159, 164
noblesse de l'épée,
70
North, Lord, 303
Nouvelle Héloïse, La, ou Lettres de Deux Amans (Julie)
(Rousseau), 33, 45, 73, 110, 130, 168, 204, 262, 290
in England, 94, 104
success of, 34, 94
Nuneham, George Harcourt, Viscount, 96, 173