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"Scottish"
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Work title:
"An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1751, 1777
"Another spring of our constitution, that brings a great addition of force to moral sentiment, is, the love of fame; which rules, with such uncontrolled authority, in all generous minds, and is often the grand object of all their designs and undertakings."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)