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

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68. Whether those, who may slight this assair as notional, have sussiciently considered the extensive use of the ari os design, and iis influence in most trades and manufactu res, wherein the fornas of things areosten more regarded than the materials t 69. Whether there be any art seoner learned than that of mahing carpetat And whether our women, with litile time and patras, may not malae more beauti l carpeis than tho se imported frona Turio J And whetherthis branch os the woollen-manufacture be not open to ust o. Whether human industry cara produce, fio m sucti chea P materiais, a manufacture of so great value, by any other ari, as by those of sculpture and pa intingi I. Whether pictures and statues are not in sect so much trealare 'And Q hetlier Rome and Florence wOuid not be poor towns without them p T' aether they do not bring ready money, as weli as jewels y Whether C. Liab, debis are not pald, and child ren portioned with them, as

3. Whether it would not be more prudent, to strille out and exertou Ilves in permitted branches of trade, than to fold our hands and re-pine, that we are not allo ed the woollen t

ψ. Whether it be true, that two millioris are yearly expended by Eng-land by fore gn lacu and linent s. Whether immense sums are not drawn yearly irato the Northerncountries, sor supplying the Briti .navy with hem pen manufactu rest 6 Whether there be any thing more profit able than hempy And

trade t

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8. Whether is our own people want Will or capaci ty sor suci, an attempt, it might not be worth while sor some underial ing spiriis in Endi land to malae settiemenis, and raise hemp in the counties of Clare and Limerici, than whicli, perhaps, there is not sitier land in the worid forthat purpose t And whether both nations Would not find their ad vantagetherein t q. Whether is ali the idie hands in this hingdom were employed onhem p and flax, we might not find sufficient vent sor these manufactu res

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with hem p and sax that is fit sor raising them, whether we mould have much saeep-walli beyond what was sufficient to supply the necessities of

blood, langu age, religion, manners, inclination and interest t92. Whether we are not as much Englis en, as the children os old Romans born in Britain, were stili Romans P03. Whether it be not our triae interest, not to intersere With them , and, in every other case, whether it be not their true interest to bestiend usts . Whether a mini in beland might not be of great convenience tothe hingdom; and whether it could he attended with any possibie incon-Venience to Great-Britain y And whether there were not minis in Napies VOL. II. A a a and

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362 The queris. and in Sicil , when those hingdoms were provinces to Dain, or the lic stuos Austria f

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we had no foretgn commerce λPIO. Whether the exigen cies of nature a re not to be answered by industry on Our own soli t And how far the convenien cies and com foris ofli se may be procured, by a domestic commerce bet een the severat paris

of this Lingdom t

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accidenis ti 10. Whether larger houses, better bulli and surnished, a greater tra in offer vanis, the difference With regard to equipage and table, he tween finerand coarser, more and lesi elegant, may not be lassicient to seed a reason

able mare of vani ty, or support ali proper dist inctions t And whether allthese may not be procured, by domestic industry out of the four elemenis, without ransacking the four quarters of the globet Izo. Whether any thing is a nobier ornament, in the eye of the worid, than an Italian palace, that is, stone and mortar skil sully put tog ther, and adorned with sculpture and patia tingue and whether this may not becompassed without soreign tradet

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nation under the sun tias. Whether in such a state the inhabitants may not contrive to pasithe twenty-sour liours, with tolerable ease and chearfulnesi t And whether any people u pota earili can do more t

126. Whether they may not eat, drinli, play, drest, visit, neep in good heds, sit by good fires, bullit, Plant, rat se a name, malle estates, and

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ly to support the article of vani ty ti 6. Whether it can be hoped, that private persons Will not indulgethis solly, unlesi restra ined by the publici

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I 7. How vani ty is maintained in other countries' Whether in H-gno, sor instance, a proud nobility are not subsisted with Gali imporis from abroad tI 8. Whether there be a prouder people upon earth than the nobiennetians, although they ait Near plain blach clothes tI 9. Whether a peopte are to be pilled, that will not sacrifice theirlitile particular vanities to the public good Z And yet, Whether each partwould not except their own solbie stom this public sacrifice, the 'squire his botile, the lady her lace tiso. Whether claret be not osten drank rather for vanity than sorhealth, or plealare tisi. Whether it be true, that men os nice palates have been imposedon, by etder Wine for Frenta claret, and by mead for palm sackt Iset. Do not Englissmen abroad purchase beer and cyder at ten timesthe price of wine tIS 3. How many gentiemen are there in England of a thousand poundsper annum, Who never drink wine in their own houses t Whether thesame may be seid of any in beland who have even one hundred poundsper annum rIs . What rea n have our neighbours in England sor discouraging