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Bishop Berkeley   /bˈɪʃəp bˈərkli/   Listen
Bishop Berkeley

noun
1.
Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753).  Synonyms: Berkeley, George Berkeley.






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"Bishop Berkeley" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the second century of our history, Bishop Berkeley, who, it will be remembered, had resided for some time in Newport, in Rhode Island, wrote his well-known "Verses on the Prospect of Planting ARTS and LEARNING in AMERICA." The last stanza of this little poem seems to have been produced by ...
— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster

... fared? Could we not—Unionists and Nationalists alike—do something towards material progress without abandoning our ideals? Could we not learn something from a study of what our people were doing abroad? One seemed to hear the voice of Bishop Berkeley, the biting pertinence of whose Queries is ever fresh, asking from the grave in which he had been laid to rest nearly a century and a half ago 'whether it would not be more reasonable to mend our state than complain of it; and how far this may be ...
— Ireland In The New Century • Horace Plunkett

... example of a peculiar class of Poetry;—that written by thoughtful men who practised this Art but little. Wotton's, 72, is another. Jeremy Taylor, Bishop Berkeley, Dr. Johnson, Lord Macaulay, have left ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various

... home of Bishop Berkeley, and a group of old houses on Thames Street at Newport, may be said to represent the second period of our colonial architecture,—i.e., the first quarter of the eighteenth century. They are entirely of frame construction, covered over the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various



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