"And as an image necessarily resembles its object, must not the frequent placing of these resembling perceptions in the chain of thought, convey the imagination more easily from one link to another, and make the whole seem like the continuance of one object?"
A Treatise of Human Nature
Published anonymously with vols. I and II appearing in January in 1739 and vol. III appearing in November of 1740. Only 1 entry in the ESTC (1740).<br>
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David Hume, <u>A Treatise of Human Nature. Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects.</u> 3 vols. (London: Printed for John Noon, 1739; Thomas Longman, 1740). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T4002">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW118260024&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806339.0001.001">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/342">Link to OLL</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading David Hume, <u>A Treatise of Human Nature</u>, eds. D. F. and M. J. Norton (Oxford: OUP, 2000). Searching in Past Masters and OLL editions.