Excerpt from The Works of George Berkeley, D.D: Bishop of Cloyne; To Which Are Added, an Account of His Life, and Several of His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &C Dr. George berkeley, the learned and ingenious bishop of Cloyne in Ireland, was a native of that kingdom, and the son of william berkeley of Thomastown, in the county of Kilkenny, whose father went over to Ireland after the Restoration, (the family having suffered greatly for their loyalty to Charles I.) and there obtained the collectorship of Belfast. 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.