David Raynor

Biographic Data

ID1402091
NAMEDavid Raynor
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMERaynor
SIGNATURERAYNOR D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Ottawa
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • The authorship of Sister Peg

    David R Raynor, David RaynorARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2023

    This paper is in four parts. The first sets out the debate between those who wished England to have only a professional army, and those who sought to supplement it with a citizen militia. This debate is crucial for understanding The History of the Proceedings in the Case of Margaret, Commonly Called Peg, Only Lawful Sister to John Bull, Esq. This political satire (commonly known as Sister Peg) is about the successful struggle to re-establish the …

  • Adam Smith

    Open AccessDavid R Raynor, David RaynorARTICLEScottish Journal of Political…1996Cited by: 1References: 1

    This article prints two hitherto unknown letters by Adam Smith to Henry Beaufoy (1750‐95), MP for Great Yarmouth, concerning legislation that beaufoy and William Pitt had promoted. In the first letter (14 November 1786) Smith comments on changes to existing customs and exicese regulations(26 Geo. III c.49 and c.59), and implicitly takes some credit for legislation concerning the hering fishery (25 Geo. III c.65, 26 Geo. III c.81, 27 Geo. III c.10…

  • Sir James Steuart

    David Raynor, Andrew Skinner et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1994

    T SHE Scottish political economist Sir James Steuart (I713-I780) is remembered primarily for his Principles of Political Oeconomy (I767), which is one of two great systematic treatises on the subject written by Scotsmen in the eighteenth century. It was eventually eclipsed by Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (I776). Smith's dominant influence on classical political economy, which dates from the first two decades of the nineteenth century, may b…

  • Hume's Philosophy of Common Life

    David R Raynor, David RaynorREVIEWEighteenth-Century Studies1987

  • Hume and Robertson's History of Scotland

    Open AccessDavid R Raynor, David RaynorARTICLEJournal for Eighteenth-Century…1987Cited by: 1

  • Berkeley's Ontology

    Open AccessDavid R Raynor, David RaynorARTICLEDialogue1987Cited by: 1References: 4

    Berkeley's Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge was published in 1710, when he was only twenty-five. The public silence that greeted it stunned him. Even the ridicule that he had anticipated was initially confined to private circles. No doubt this mortifying experience reinforced his belief "that whatever doctrine contradicts vulgar and settled opinion" must "be introduced with great caution into the world". It had, indeed, been …

  • Hume on Wilkes and Liberty

    David RaynorARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1980

    HUME RETIRED as undersecretary of state, Northern Department, in January 1768, but he lingered in London for nineteen months before returning to Edinburgh. As he explained to a friend: am amus'd with looking on the Scene, which really begins to be interesting. ' The London scene was dominated by one man, John Wilkes. Wilkes had lately returned from self-exile in France, and had been elected member of Parliament for Middlesex. But he was immediate…

  • "Minima Sensibilia"in Berkeley and Hume

    Open AccessDavid RaynorARTICLEDialogue1980Cited by: 1References: 3

    Philosophers no longer argue whether Hume ever read Berkeley, yet some remain puzzled as to why so little of Berkeley appears in Hume's works. Professor Popkin has remarked that even "where Hume and Berkeley come closest to discussing the same subject or holding the same view, Hume neither uses Berkeley's terms nor refers to him." An apparent exception to this generalization is Berkeley's doctrine ofminima sensibilia, for both philosophers use th…