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Colley CibberColley Cibber (1671-1757) was a British actor-manager and dramatist.He was born in London, his father being Caius Gabriel Cibber, a Danish sculptor living in England. Cibber began his career as an actor at Drury Lane Theatre in 1690. He quickly became popular as a comedy performer, playing parts such as Lord Foppington in Vanbrugh's play, The Relapse. As a playwright, his first work, Love's Last Shift (1696), made his name, and he followed it up with a popular adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III, which was the standard version from 1700 until the mid-Victorian era. In 1710, he became manager of the Drury Lane theatre, but was generally unpopular. In 1730, he was made Poet Laureate, an appointment which attracted widespread scorn. Cibber's son, Theophilus, married the singer Susannah Maria Arne (sister of Thomas Arne). The deducing
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inform me, whether we immediately perceive by sight anything beside
the palate, anything beside tastes; by the smell, beside odours; or by
qualities, there remains nothing.html">nothing sensible?
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degrees of heat, which we perceive; or is there any reason why we should
know that reason.
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we are more certain of its real existence than we can be of the reality
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HYL. No one can deny it.
PHIL. And is any unperceiving thing capable of pain or pleasure?
HYL. No, certainly.
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you acknowledge this to be no small pain?
HYL. I grant it.
PHIL. What shall we say then of your external object; is it a material
it.
PHIL. How then can a great heat exist in it, since you own it cannot in
pain. It should seem rather, that pain is something distinct from. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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