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9 Berkeley and the Style of Dialogue Soon after The Principles of Human Knowledge ( 1710 ) had appeared , the still youthful Berkeley ( 1685-1753 ) wrote to his friend Percival expressing his disappointment that Samuel Clarke had ...
9 Berkeley and the Style of Dialogue Soon after The Principles of Human Knowledge ( 1710 ) had appeared , the still youthful Berkeley ( 1685-1753 ) wrote to his friend Percival expressing his disappointment that Samuel Clarke had ...
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For I do not think there is anything ironical in Berkeley's letter . If it raises a smile , it is at Berkeley's simplicity , in thinking Clarke could set him right without entering into a dispute with him . And yet perhaps this is not ...
For I do not think there is anything ironical in Berkeley's letter . If it raises a smile , it is at Berkeley's simplicity , in thinking Clarke could set him right without entering into a dispute with him . And yet perhaps this is not ...
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This revised view of his significance seems preferable on many counts not only because it is , as Dr Luce and others have shown , consonant with the argument of Berkeley's Principles ; but also because it is consonant with the tone of ...
This revised view of his significance seems preferable on many counts not only because it is , as Dr Luce and others have shown , consonant with the argument of Berkeley's Principles ; but also because it is consonant with the tone of ...
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Contents
Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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| Title | Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Author | Donald Davie |
| Publisher | Carcanet, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 29, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0856359793, 9780856359798 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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