BIB_ID
414664
Accession number
MA 1581.291
Display Date
Place not identified, undated.
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Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.3 x 18.6 cm
Notes
The manuscript appears to be a fair copy. It is not known who composed it or in whose hand it is written.
The notes are undated. Based on the inclusion of the title of Reid's work, Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense, the notes must have been written after the Inquiry's first publication in 1764.
This manuscript is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall, and to other members of the Beaumont family.
The notes are undated. Based on the inclusion of the title of Reid's work, Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense, the notes must have been written after the Inquiry's first publication in 1764.
This manuscript is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall, and to other members of the Beaumont family.
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Consisting of several paragraphs of notes on philosophical subjects; beginning with a critique of Descartes, Locke, Berkeley and Hume; praising Reid and his Inquiry into the Human Mind as "open[ing] a new field of discussion for speculative men"; discussing the work of Reid and Beattie on truth, reason and common sense; summarizing the first two chapters of a work, possibly Reid's Inquiry.
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