Les Hipotiposes Ou Institutions Pirroniennes...En Trois Livres [With Pensees Secretes. Divisees en deux Parties By William Beveridge]

[Amsterdam], 1725. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 18mo bound in 12s. Full vellum. Title on spine. Bound together with Pensees Secretes Divisees en deux Parties; Premiere Partie, Reflexiones sur la Religion, avec des Resolutions pratiques quie en sont tirees. Second Partie, Reflexiones sur la Vie Chretienne &c. Amsterdam: Wetseins & Smith, 1731. Book I: [30] 434 p.p., incl. frontis of Empiricus. Tear to title page previously repaired with new paper. Book II, Premiere Partie: xiv, [8], 245 p.p., incl. frontis; Second Partie: [14] 286 p.p. Title on spine slightly faded. Some yellow stains to front and rear board. Edges bumped. vellum slightly wowed along foredge.Pages browned with foxing. Lacks front and rear endpapers, but otherwise in very good condition. Sextus Empiricus Outlines of Pyrronism, or Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes (PH) is divided into three books. "PH I is a complete description of Pyrrhonian Skepticism, stating what it is that makes one qualify as a Pyrrhonian skeptic (the possession of a certain skill) and what the pay-off for being a Skeptic is (tranquillity)... In PH II and III, Sextus lays out the positions of Dogmatic philosophers on issues of logic (PH II), and physics and ethics (PH III)..." [Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy. Empiricus Sextus]. William Beverdige was an English clergyman and writer. He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge in 1653, where he was interested in languages.In 1658, he published a treatise on Excellency and Use of the Oriental Tongues, especially Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Samaritan, together with a Grammar of the Syriac Language. He was ordained in January, 1660. In 1683, he gave a highly succesful and moving sermon on the anniversary of the Great Fire of London. Beverdige served as Bishop of St. Asaph in Wales, from 1604 until his death in 1708.