The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland, Vol. 2 of 3: To Which Is Added, an Account of His Life; And Several of His ... Dean Grevais, Mr. Pope, &C (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover
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Excerpt from The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland, Vol. 2 of 3: To Which Is Added, an Account of His Life; And Several of His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq. Dean Grevais, Mr. Pope, &C
I. T as following day as we sat round the tea-table, m a summer parlour which looks into the garden, Alci phron after the first dish turned down his cup, and re clining back on his chair proceeded as follows: Above all the sects upon earth it is the peculiar privilege of ours, not to be tied down by any principles. While other phi losophers profess a servile adherence to certain tenets, ours assert a noble freedom, differing not only one from another, but very often the same man from himself. Which method of proceeding, beside other advantages, hath this annexed to it, that we are of all men the hard est to confute. You may, perhaps, confute a particular tenet, but then this affects only him who maintains it.
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