Excerpt from A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge He was made Bishop of Cloyne in 1734. When he wished to resign, the King would not permit him and being keenly alive to the evils of non-residence, he made an arrangement before leav ing Cloyne whereby he settled 2001. A year during his absence on the poor. In 1752 he removed to Oxford, where, on the evening of the 14th january, in 1753, he was suddenly seized, while read ing, with palsy of the heart, and died almost instantaneously. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.