"I need not tell you, that, by this eager pursuit of pleasure, you more and more expose yourself to fortune and accidents, and rivet your affections on external objects, which chance may, in a moment, ravish from you."
The Stoic [from Essays Moral and Political]
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. 