43 examples of berkeley's in sentences

She writes to him in Stratford, imagining him in Bishop Berkeley's arm-chair, surrounded by family pictures and huge folios.

"' 'Being in company with a gentleman who thought fit to maintain Dr. Berkeley's ingenious philosophy, that nothing exists but as perceived by some mind; when the gentleman was going away, Johnson said to him, "Pray, Sir, don't leave us; for we may perhaps forget to think of you, and then you will cease to exist.

" "There is some dissatisfaction with Governor Berkeley's course with the Indians.

The people had borne enough of Berkeley's tyranny, and the masses sided with Bacon.

Berkeley's riflemen so annoyed the men at work, that Bacon had recourse to a strange device to protect them.

Robert Stevens sprang to his side, and both smiled at the lack of courage and discipline which Berkeley's longshoremen displayed.

Sir William Berkeley's face was deathly white; but he made no response.

" "Doctor Berkeley's observations," Thorndyke resumed, "together with the medical evidence at the inquest, led me to certain conclusions.

Berkeley's idealistic position was taken to crush atheistic materialism.

" Mr. Pope sums up Bishop Berkeley's character in one line.

Clarendon makes the enmity between himself and Berkeley arise from his opposition to Berkeley's claim to the mastership of the Court of Wards (Hist.

Colonel Berkeley's counsel had urged that, even if he could not appear in open court and be sworn, he had the privilege of communicating his evidence in a peculiar mode, by certificate under the Sign Manual or Great Seal.

Following Malebranche, and developing further the idealistic tendencies of the latter, Collier had, independently of Berkeley, conceived the doctrine of the "non-existence or impossibility of an external world "; but had not worked it out in his Clavis Universalis, 1713, until after the appearance of Berkeley's chief work, and not without consideration of this.

In agreement with Berkeley's ultra-nominalism, which combats even the possibility of abstract ideas, he yet does not follow him to the extent of denying external reality.

If we reason on Bishop Berkeley's theorythat all the mansions, equipages, &c. we see abroad, are intended for our gratificationwe must soon forget the turtle, venison, and claret that are stored in the larders and cellars of club-houses, whilst our admiration is awakened at the taste which is lavished on their exteriors.

" "Wellthey are the rewards of Mr. Berkeley's political virtue.

She thinks Mr. Berkeley's scheme of putting them on the stone posts is the best.

" To this passage is appended the following note: "Berkeley's Minute Philosopher, Dialogue 3; but especially his Theory of Vision Vindicated, London, 1733 (not republished in the quarto edition of his works), where this most excellent man sinks for a moment to the level of a railing polemic.

Lord Camden, when pressed by Dr. Berkeley (the Bishop's son) to appoint a Scotchman to some office, replied: 'I have many years ago sworn that I never will introduce a Scotchman into any office; for if you introduce one he will contrive some way or other to introduce forty more cousins or friends.' G. M. Berkeley's Poems, p. ccclxxi.

Lord Berkeley's book I have actually got, and shall give him an article.

And after that his obliging fancy bore him up Franklin Street, through Monroe Park, and so to Miss Sally Berkeley's door.

In Berkeley's track nearly all the succeeding ones went on.

Berkeley's works are very numerous.

Whatever may be thought of the value of Berkeley's philosophical or practical speculations, there is only one opinion of his style.

The definition of the word "treated" seems ambiguous, but in any event it is a pleasing reminder of Bishop Berkeley's remark that he would "rather see England free than England sober."

43 examples of  berkeley's  in sentences