"It is remarkable concerning the operations of the mind, that, though most intimately present to us, yet, whenever they become the object of reflection, they seem involved in obscurity; nor can the eye readily find those lines and boundaries, which discriminate and distinguish them."
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.