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DAVID HUME, Efq?

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a few

months before his death, wrote the following fhort account of his own Life; and, in a codici to his will, defired that it might be prefixed to the next edition of his Works. That edition cannot be published? for a confiderable time. The Editor, in the mean while, in order to ferve the pur

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chafers of the former edi

tions; and, at the fame

time, to gratify the impa

tience of the public curiofity; has thought proper to publifh it feparately, without altering even the title or fuperfcription, which was written in Mr. Hume's own hand on the cover of the manufcript.

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