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(1711-1776)
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Editor/Trans.
Eugene F. Miller, ed.
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First Pub. Date
1742
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Publisher/Edition
Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, Inc.Liberty Fund, Inc. 
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Pub. Date
1987
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Comments
Includes Political Discourses (1752), "My Own Life," by David Hume, and a letter by Adam Smith.
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| TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
| Cover Table of Contents |
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| About the Book and Author | |
| Foreword, by Eugene F. Miller | |
| Editor's Note, by Eugene F. Miller | |
| Note to the Revised Edition | |
| My Own Life, by David Hume | |
| Letter from Adam Smith, L.L.D. to William Strahan, Esq. | |
| PART I | |
| I.I OF THE DELICACY OF TASTE AND PASSION | |
| I.II OF THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS | |
| I.III THAT POLITICS MAY BE REDUCED TO A SCIENCE | |
| I.IV OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT | |
| I.V OF THE ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT | |
| I.VI OF THE INDEPENDENCY OF PARLIAMENT | |
| I.VII WHETHER THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT INCLINES MORE TO ABSOLUTE MONARCHY, OR TO A REPUBLIC | |
| I.VIII OF PARTIES IN GENERAL | |
| I.IX OF THE PARTIES OF GREAT BRITAIN | |
| I.X OF SUPERSTITION AND ENTHUSIASM | |
| I.XI OF THE DIGNITY OR MEANNESS OF HUMAN NATURE | |
| I.XII OF CIVIL LIBERTY | |
| I.XIII OF ELOQUENCE | |
| I.XIV OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES | |
| I.XV THE EPICUREAN | |
| I.XVI THE STOIC | |
| I.XVII THE PLATONIST | |
| I.XVIII THE SCEPTIC | |
| I.XIX OF POLYGAMY AND DIVORCES | |
| I.XX OF SIMPLICITY AND REFINEMENT IN WRITING | |
| I.XXI OF NATIONAL CHARACTERS | |
| I.XXII OF TRAGEDY | |
| I.XXIII OF THE STANDARD OF TASTE | |
| PART II [Political Discourses] | |
| II.I OF COMMERCE | |
| II.II OF REFINEMENT IN THE ARTS | |
| II.III OF MONEY | |
| II.IV OF INTEREST | |
| II.V OF THE BALANCE OF TRADE | |
| II.VI OF THE JEALOUSY OF TRADE | |
| II.VII OF THE BALANCE OF POWER | |
| II.VIII OF TAXES | |
| II.IX OF PUBLIC CREDIT | |
| II.X OF SOME REMARKABLE CUSTOMS | |
| II.XI OF THE POPULOUSNESS OF ANCIENT NATIONS | |
| II.XII OF THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT | |
| II.XIII OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE | |
| II.XIV OF THE COALITION OF PARTIES | |
| II.XV OF THE PROTESTANT SUCCESSION | |
| II.XVI IDEA OF A PERFECT COMMONWEALTH | |
| PART III Essays Withdrawn and Unpublished | |
| III.I OF ESSAY-WRITING | |
| III.II OF MORAL PREJUDICES | |
| III.III OF THE MIDDLE STATION OF LIFE | |
| III.IV OF IMPUDENCE AND MODESTY | |
| III.V OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE | |
| III.VI OF THE STUDY OF HISTORY | |
| III.VII OF AVARICE | |
| III.VIII A CHARACTER OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE | |
| III.IX OF SUICIDE | |
| III.X OF THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL | |
| Variant Readings | |
| Glossary | |
| Footnotes to Part I | |
| Footnotes to Parts II-III | |
The cuneiform inscription in the Liberty Fund logo is the earliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.