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" Where is the harm of my believing, that if I were to fall down yonder precipice, and break my neck, I should be no more a man of this world? My neck, Sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality, and an important one too. Where is the harm of... "
An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry ... - Page 296
by James Beattie - 1771 - 568 pages
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 33

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1772 - 534 pages
...the only .created being in the utiiverfe, but that there are a great many others, whole exifteivce is as independent on .me. as mine is .on them? Where...to fall down yonder precipice, and break my neck, 1 ilioi.kl be no more a man of this world : My neck, Sir, may be an idea to you, .but to me.it is a...
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Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to ..., Volume 1

James Beattie - Classical education - 1776 - 504 pages
...with the reft of the world, that I am not the only created being in the univerfe, but that there are many others, whofe exiftence is as independent on...more a man of this world ? My neck, Sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality, and an important one too. Where is the harm of my believing,...
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Life and Letters of George Berkeley, D. D., Formerly Bishop of Cloyne; and ...

Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1871 - 702 pages
...that 1 am not the only created being in the universe, but that there are many others, whose existence is as independent on me as mine is on them? Where...to fall down yonder precipice and break my neck, I should be DO more a man of this world ? My neck, sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality,...
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Life and Letters of George Berkeley: D.D., Formerly Bishop of Cloyne; and an ...

Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1871 - 708 pages
...that 1 am not the only created being in the universe, but that there are many others, whose existence is as independent on me as mine is on them? Where...to fall down yonder precipice and break my neck, I should be no more a man of this world ? My neck, sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality,...
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The Works of George Berkeley: Life and letters

George Berkeley - 1871 - 710 pages
...that I am not the only created being in the universe, but that there are many others, whose existence is as independent on me as mine is on them? Where...to fall down yonder precipice and break my neck, I should be no more a man of this world ? My neck, sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality,...
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The Works of George Berkeley, Volume 4

George Berkeley - 1871 - 710 pages
...that 1 am not the only created being in the universe, but that there are many others, whose existence is as independent on me as mine is on them? Where is the harm of my believing that if 1 were to fall down yonder precipice and break my neck, I should be no more a man of this world ? My...
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The Age of Pope

John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pages
...absurd.' 'If,' he writes, 'I were permitted to propose one clownish question, I would fain ask. . . . Where is the harm of my believing that if I were to fall down yonder precipice and break my neck, I should be no more a man of this world ? My neck, Sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality,...
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The Age of Pope (1700-1744).

John Dennis - English literature - 1899 - 294 pages
...absurd.' 'If,' he writes, 'I were permitted to propose one clownish question, I would fain ask. . . . Where is the harm of my believing that if I were to fall down yonder precipice and break my neck, I should be no more a man of this world ? My neck, Sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality,...
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The Works of George Berkeley ...: Philosophical works, 1734-52: The analyst ...

George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1901 - 430 pages
...that I am not the only created being in the universe, but that there are many others, whose existence is as independent on me as mine is on them ? Where...to fall down yonder precipice and break my neck, I should be no more a man of this world ? My neck, sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality,...
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A Study in Realism

John Laird - Knowledge, Theory of - 1920 - 256 pages
...idea1 ; and he put certain 4 clownish questions ' to Berkeley in the same spirit. " Where," he asked, " is the harm of my believing that if I were to fall down yonder precipice and break my neck, I should be no more a man of this world ? My neck, sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality...
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