David Hume in the library

2 works in the library quote David Hume — 8 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

Lysander Spooner 6 citations · A. V. Dicey 2 citations

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of David Hume is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. An Essay on the Trial by Jury Lysander Spooner 4 authority · 2 neutral 6 citations · 15 passages

   ch. 4 · ch. 9 2 passages anchored here · ch. 20 6 passages anchored here · ch. 23 6 passages anchored here

   Hume's account is explicitly quoted to corroborate the claim about royal legislative power.

   Hume says, “It is asserted by Sir Harry Spelman, as an undoubted fact, that, during the reigns of the Norman princes, every order of the king, issued with the consent of his privy council, had the full force of law.

2. Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England A. V. Dicey 2 authority 2 citations · 6 passages

   ch. 9 4 passages anchored here · ch. 51 2 passages anchored here

   Hume is quoted twice by name and his 'doctrine' or 'paradox' is relied upon repeatedly as the authoritative maxim underlying the lecture's argument.

   “Though men,” to use the words of Hume, “be much governed by interest, yet even interest itself, and all human affairs, are entirely governed by opinion.