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[ BROWNE PETER, BISHOP OF CORK & ROSS, IRELAND]. The Procedure, Extent, and Limits of Human Understanding.
London: Printed [ by James Bettenham ] for William Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's. MDCCXXVIII [1728 ] . 0. First edition. 8vo. 8" x 5" x 1". [6pp.]/pp.477 ends with colophon: "Printed by James Bettenham." A very good original full leather binding. Brown full calf with simple blind-stamp decoration. Spine with 5 raised bands and recent black leather title label ("Browne - Human Understanding"). Corners and top & tail of spine carefully strengthened. Inner hinges also carefully strengthened. Clean text throughout, with good margins, just a little toning to the endpapers. A very good copy. ESTC T130658 . ** Peter Browne (?1665 - August 27, 1735), Irish divine and bishop of Cork and Ross, was born in County Dublin. Peter Browne (or Brown, as he spelt his name at entrance) entered Trinity College as a pensioner in June 1682 after attending the free school attached to St Patrick’s Cathedral.1 He graduated in 1686 and was elected to Fellowship in 1692. Seven yearslater he was appointed Provost, in succession to George Browne (to whom he appears not to have been related). While still a Fellow he wrote one of the numerous replies to John Toland's controversial deistical work Christianity not Mysterious. Archbishop Marsh (former Provost Narcissus Marsh) is said to have recommended Browne for the provostship on the basis of this rebuttal.2 This came to the notice of Queen Anne, who was also favorably impressed by his preaching, and she rewarded him in 1710 by appointing him Bishop of Cork.3 Browne was a moderate Tory and irritated by the virtual deification of William III by the Whigs after his death, he published several pamphlets attacking the practice of drinking to the memory of the dead, ostensibly on religious but also, on political grounds. - See Trinity College Dublin website.
Offered for GBP 360.00 = appr. US$ 534.60 by: Beckham Books - Book number: 33427
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