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67. Essay XII. Of Civil liberty {Essays, éd. Grcen, vol. I, pp. 156 sqq).

68. Essay XIII. Of Passive Obédience. {Essays, «kl. Green, vol. I, pp. 461 sqq).

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69. Bcntham se tient visiblement, vers cette époque, pour Tallié de Ilume en matière d'irréligion. V. Mss. Univ. Coll. 35,-^38 f. 109 : lettre à Samuel Bentbam, du 17 mars 1777... : There is a very short lifeofD. Hume corne out, written to himscif. 1 hâve just been reading it : it will do service to Ihe cause. — f. lîO : lettre à Samuel Bentham, 6 mai 1777 : «... I hâve been told there bave been two attacks upon Dr. Adam Smith bv the godly, for testifving Ihat David Hume died in peace. There wras a liltle grinning prig Oxford Parson t* other day at Q. S. P. (c'est-à-dire à Quecn's Square Place, chez son père) of whom Madame asked v^hether lie had seen the answer to the Humaean impiety : meaning one of those.