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Bernardo Bellotto (Italian, 1721-1780) Piazza San Martino con la Cattedrale di Lucca, 1740

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Robe à l’anglaise

c.1740-1749

England; Fabric from India

Royal Ontario Museum (Object number: 967.176.1)

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David Hume

David Hume (1711-1776) was a Scottish philosopher, writer, historian, and important figure in the Enlightenment. Hume presented a positive view of human nature but a sceptical view of religion's usefulness. His Treatise of Human Nature was later a hugely influential philosophical work, but his fame and fortune in his own lifetime came from his popular six-volume History of England.

Early Life

David Hume was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 7 May 1711. His parents belonged to the landed gentry, his father practising law in the Scottish capital but also owning an estate at Ninewells near Berwick-upon-Tweed. As he had an elder brother, David would be obliged to find some other profession than that of estate owner. At the age of 12, he began to study law at the University of Edinburgh. Hume was not enthused by legal studies, endured some sort of nervous breakdown in 1729, and so switched his focus to literature. In 1734, he relocated to La Flèche in northwest France to study at a Jesuit college where René Descartes (1596-1650) had once studied.

Hume's career was rather unstable. He was rejected twice in his applications to lecture at university level, both by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow, largely over concerns he was an atheist. The historian H. Chisick summarises the eventful merry-go-round of posts Hume held in his career:

He became a clerk in a company dealing in sugar; a tutor; secretary on a military expedition headed by a relative; aide-de-camp to the same relative in a military embassy to Vienna; librarian to the Faculty of Advocates of Edinburgh; and secretary to the British ambassador in Paris.

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Men's coat of brown figured silk with cuffs and lining in pale blue silk, trimmed with silver lace, circa 1740

From the National Museum of Scotland

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Green Silk Robe à la Française, ca. 1740, French.

Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris.

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Fall of the Rebel Angels Sculpture by the Italian sculptor Agostino Fasolato in 1740

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Roanoke, VA c.1740

This original log home is said to be one of the first three cabins built in the Roanoke Valley, dating back to 1740, with some writings on the walls. The original log cabin has been preserved with the rest of the home built around it. The 2.5-acre property was once an old apple orchard farm. Located on Bent Mountain Road.

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Pieta, 1740 by Corrado Giaquinto (1703-1766)

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The rebuke of Adam and Eve, 1740, Charles Joseph Natoire

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Frances Arnold, William Hogarth, 1738-40

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Red Floral Silk Robe Volante, ca. 1740, Scottish.

National Museums Scotland.

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Carl Michael Bellman was a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet, and entertainer. He is a central figure in the Swedish song tradition and remains a pow...

Link: Carl Michael Bellman

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