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"Scottish"
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Politics of Author:
"Whiggish"
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"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Author name:
"Hume, David (1711-1776)"
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Date: 1742
"Surely then no mistakes are ever committed in this affair; but every man, however dissolute and negligent, proceeds in the pursuit of happiness, with as unerring a motion, as that which the celestial bodies observe, when, conducted by the hand of the Almighty, they roll along the ethereal plains."
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