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STRASBURG H:

Sold by F. G. LEVRAULT, Printer and Book feller.

1 7 9 9.

265. i. 254.

THESE two Essays on Suicide and the Immortality

of the Soul, though not published in any edition of his works, are generally attributed to the late ingenious Mr. Hume.

The well-known contempt of this eminent philofopher for the common convictions of mankind, raised an apprehenfion of the contents from the very title of these pieces. But the celebrity of the author's name renders them, notwithstanding, in some degree, objects of great curiofity.

Owing to this circumftance, a few copies have been clandeftinely circulated, at a large price, for fome time, but without any comment. The very mystery attending this mode of felling them, made them more an object of request than they would otherwise have been.

The prefent publication comes abroad under no fuch restraint, and possesses very superior advantages. The Notes annexed are intended to expofe the fophiftry contained in the original Essays, and may show how little we have to fear from the adverfaries of thefe great truths,

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