"Human minds are smaller streams, which, arising at first from the ocean [of Divintity], seek still, amid all wanderings, to return to it, and to lose themselves in that immensity of perfection"
The Platonist
At least 15 entries in ESTC (1742, 1748,  1753, 1757, 1758, 1760, 1764, 1768, 1770, 1777, 1779, 1780, 1784, 1793, 1800).<br>
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First published in <u>Essays, Moral and Political. Volume II.</u> (Edinburgh: Printed for A. Kincaid, near the Cross, by R. Fleming and A. Alison, 1742). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T142762">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Past Masters and Online Library of Liberty. Reading <u>Essays, Moral, Political and Literary</u>, rev. ed. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1987). The Liberty Fund editor, Eugene F. Miller, takes the 1777 edition of Hume's essays as his copy text. 