"This impression of my senses immediately conveys my thought to the person, together with all the surrounding objects. I paint them out to myself as existing at present, with the same qualities and relations, of which I formerly knew them possessed."
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Working from Nidditch's census, and also confirming entries in the ESTC (1748, 1750, 1751, 1756, 1758, 1760, 1764, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1772, 1777).<br>
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First published as <u>Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding</u> (London: Printed for A Millar, 1748). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW119914515&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806472.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=LB4VAAAAQAAJ&">Link to 1748 edition in Google Books</a>&gt; "Second edition" in 1750, "third edition" in 1756. First titled <u>An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding</u> in 1758.<br>
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In ECCO-TCP, see also <u>Essays and Treatises: on Several Subjects. By David Hume, Esq</u>, 4 vols. (London: Printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, at Edinburgh, 1760). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004802356.0001.003">Link to vol. III</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from David Hume, <u>Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals</u>. 3rd edition. Ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge; P. H. Nidditch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975). Note, Nidditch reproduces the the second volume of the posthumous edition of 1777, which he has collated with the preceding 1772 edition.