Volume 1
The works of George Berkeley, D.D. late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. To which is added, an account of his life [by J. Stock] and several of his letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, and Mr. Pope, etc / [George Berkeley].
- George Berkeley
- Date:
- 1784
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The works of George Berkeley, D.D. late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. To which is added, an account of his life [by J. Stock] and several of his letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, and Mr. Pope, etc / [George Berkeley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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No text description is available for this image![be neceffary to draw over my money. I have (pent here a matter of fix hundred pounds more than you know of, for which 1 have not yet drawn over. I had fome other points to fpeak to, but am cut fhort. Ex. 37. Dec. I, 1726. I have lately received feveral letters of your’s, which have given me a good deal of light with refped to Mrs. Vanhom- righ’s affairs. But I am fo much employed on the bufinefs of Bermuda, that I have hardly time to mind anything elfe. I fhall neverthelefs fnatch the prefent moment to write you fhort anfwers to the queries you pro- pofe. As to Bermuda, it is now, &c. [See above. Ex. 12.] You alfo de- fire I would fpeak to Ned. You muff know Ned hath parted from me ever fince the beginning of laft July. I allowed him fix fhillings a week, befide his annual wages j and befide an entire livery, I gave him old cloaths which he made a penny of. But the creature grew idle and worthlefs to a prodigious degree: he was almofl conflantly out of the way; and when I told him of it, he ufed to give me warning. I bore with this behaviour about nine months, and let him know I did it in compaffion to him, and in hopes he would mend : but finding no hopes of this, I was forced at lafl to difcharge him, and take another, who is as diligent as he was negligent. When he parted from me, I paid him be- tween fix and feven pound which was due to him, and likewife gave him money to bear his charges to Ireland, whither he faid he was going. I met him t’other day in the ftreet, and afking why he was not gone to Ireland to his wife and child, he made anfwer that he had neither wife nor child. He got, it feems, into another fervice when he left me, but continued only a fortnight in it. The fellow is filly to an incredible de- gree, and fpoiled by good ufage.—I fhall take care the pidures be fold in an audion. Mr. Smilert, whom I know to be a very honefl: fkilful perfon in his profeffion, will fee them put into an audion at the proper time, w'hich he tells me is not till the town fills with company, about the meeting of parliament.—I remember to have told you I could know more](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28773846_0001_0075.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)