Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849 by Various
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attached. I shall be able occasionally to send you a few "notes" on
these heads, from the "household book," and, in contemplating the remains of this unrivalled collection of its day, I can well bespeak the sympathy of every true-hearted "Chartist" and Bibliographer, in the lament which has often been mine--"Quanta fuisti cum tantæ sint reliquiæ!" LAMBERT B. LARKING. Ryarsh Vicarage, Dec. 12. 1849. * * * * * BERKELEY'S THEORY OF VISION VINDICATED. In reply to the query of "B.G." (p. 107. of your 7th No.), I beg to say that Bishop Berkeley's _Theory of Vision Vindicated_ does not occur either in the 4to. or 8vo. editions of his collected works; but there is a copy of it in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, from which I transcribe the full title as follows:-- "The Theory of Vision, or Visual Language, shewing the immediate Presence and Providence of a Deity, vindicated and explained. By the author of Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher. "Acts, xvii. 28. "_In Him we live, and move, and have our being_. "Lond. Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand. |
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