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Whatever subject he undertook, he worked at with all his might. He was not a good speaker, but what he said was believed to proceed from the lips of an honest, single-minded, accurate man. If ridicule, as Shaftesbury says, be the test of truth, Joseph Hume stood the test well. No man was more laughed at, but there he stood perpetually, and literally, "at his post."
A letter from Hume to Blair, long before the rupture overt, shows the former to have been by no means so phlegmatic on this occasion as he may have seemed. "I hope," he writes, "you have not so bad an opinion of me as to think I was not melted on this occasion; I assure you I kissed him and embraced him twenty times, with a plentiful effusion of tears.
I did read some law books, attend Hume's lectures on Scotch law, and converse with and question various dull people of the practical sort. But it and they and the admired lecturing Hume himself appeared to me mere denizens of the kingdom of dulness, pointing towards nothing but money as wages for all that bogpool of disgust.
So little danger had been apprehended from the natives in the former journey, that three firelocks had been considered sufficient for our defence. On the present occasion, however, I thought it adviseable to provide arms for each individual. Mr. Hume declined accompanying me, as the harvest was at hand. Mr. The concluding chapter of this volume, relative to the promontory of St.
Indeed this lady was clad all in the fairy green, and her eyes were as blue as the sky above her head, and the long yellow locks on her shoulders were shining like the sun. "Father, he is not dead," she said, laughing as sweet as all the singing- birds in March "he is not dead, but sorely wandering in his mind when he takes Elliot Hume for the Fairy Queen."
That is why Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume and Adam Smith to take only men of the first eminence were thinking not less for politics than for ethics when they sought to justify the ways of man to man.
"One of those who hound me in the canoe even one of the man-hunters who seized my mother." Mr. Hume looked at the boys. "Did either of you see an Arab on board? Muata says a man was about to fire at him when he sprang overboard." "I thought he fell," said Compton. "I saw no one with a gun." "Nor I," said Venning; "but the Arab may have gone below." Mr. Hume hailed the captain.
He held his breath, and his throat grew very dry, for it was the voice he had heard in the cavern, only sad this time, and not mocking as before. "Ngonyama! yama!" It came thin and melancholy, with a long lingering on the last syllables. He put his hand out to rouse Mr. Hume, then drew it back ashamed of his fancies; but the movement awoke the jackal.
In 1741 Hume published anonymously, at Edinburgh, the first volume of Essays Moral and Political, which was followed in 1742 by the second volume. These pieces are written in an admirable style and, though arranged without apparent method, a system of political philosophy may be gathered from their contents.
Huxley's Life of Hume. Morrison's Life of Gibbon. Boswell's Life of Johnson. Stephen's Life of Johnson. Macaulay's Essay on Croker's Edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. The Romantic Movement.
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