Life and letters of George Berkeley, D. D., formerly bishop of Cloyne; and an account of his philosophy
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. PHILANTHROPY, THEOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY AT CLOYNE. TAR-WATER. V 1739--1752 Berkeley is almost invisible in 1739 and 1740. His correspondence in these two years is nearly a blank. Any letters he may have sent to Prior, or Johnson, or Gervais, have been lost. Nor have we even the reflected light of any addressed to him by Secker, or Benson, or Gibson: I have not found a trace of correspondence with Pope after Berkeley's return from Italy, though, according to Stock, the beauty of Cloyne was painted for the bard of Twickenham by the same hand which in former days had depicted Inarime. The period in his life on which we are now entering, as well as retrospective references in letters which follow, are illustrated in a curious local history of Cork, published while Berkeley was alive. 'On the 5th of November 1739,' we are told1,.'war was proclaimed in Cork against the king of Spain2. The river Lee was frozen up towards the end of this year by the hardest frost in the memory of man, after which a great scarcity followed, so that wheat sold in the following summer for forty-two shillings the kilderkin; but in two years after it fell to six shillings and sixpence the kilderkin. Great numbers of the poor perished during the summers of 1741 and 1742.' It was a time of famine 'in the county, followed by widespread disease. Epidemic fever and bloody flux devastated the whole neighbourhood for years. The shadow of death again fell on the episcopal palace of Cloyne in one of these troubled years, as appears from the following entry in the cathedral register:--'Sarah Berkeley, daughter of the Right Rev. George, Lord Bishop of Cloyne, was buried the 26th day of March 17403.' 1 The Ancient and Present State of the 'The commencement of the Maritime County of C...
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