Melanges de la litterature angloise, /
Durey de Meinières, Octavie Guichard,1719-1804.
Hume, David,1711-1776.Essays, moral and political.Selections.French.
A la Haye, et se trouve a Paris, : Chez Prault Fils, Libraire, Quay de Contu, la seconde Boutique après la rue de Nevers, à la charité.,
M. DCC. LIX. [1759]
Madam B****, the translator = Octavie Guichard, Madame Belot, later Durey de Meinières
Anthology of English literature, translated into French, which includes the first recorded French translations of the first three of David Hume's "Essays, moral and political", originally published in Edinburgh in 1741. The three essays translated are: Of the delicacy of taste and passion, Of the liberty of the press, Of impudence and modesty.
Anthology also includes translations of works by Samuel Johnson, Matthew Prior and Edmund Burke.
Imprint is false, work was printed and published in Paris.
Includes errata at end.
Ethics, modern
Social ethics
Political science
France Paris.
Netherlands Hague.