...venture myself upon the boundless ocean, which runs out into immensity" (2,64), but later, he says, "I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends" and finds his foregoing doubts "so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to...

...deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty," and the world in which "I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends," a world in which his speculations "appear so cold, and strain'd and ridiculous, that I cannot find...

...nature, finally, that offers the cure for the sceptical affliction in the pleasures of human society. 'I dine. I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends':44 these acts of sociability become Hume's ultimate answer to the sceptics. Locke's 'twilight'...

...famous game of backgammon. Nature herself, fortunately, dispels these clouds of despair: she "cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either...back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends." Still, the enlightened person, Hume thinks, holds the consolations of Nature at arm's length. She knows...

...reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either...senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, 1 play a game of backgammon. I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when after three or four...

...blues is to do something less hifalutin', less otherworldly, more down to earth. Socializing "cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either...avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterates all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with...

...reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either...friends; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot...

...reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either...friends; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot...

...reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either...merry with my friends; and when after three or four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous,...

...reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either...of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras' (T 269). Although philosophy is a valuable weapon in the fight against superstition, which can so easily...