SAMUEL BAILEY
\sˈamjuːl bˈe͡ɪlɪ], \sˈamjuːl bˈeɪlɪ], \s_ˈa_m_j_uː_l b_ˈeɪ_l_ɪ]\
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An English writer on philosophy and political economy; born at Sheffield, 1791; died there, Jan. 18, 1870. He was chairman of the Sheffield Banking Company and several times president of the Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society. Besides works on political economy, he wrote: "On the Formation and Publication of Opinions" (3d ed. 1831); "The Pursuit of Truth and the Progress of Knowledge" (2d ed. 1844); "Letters from an Egyptian Kafir in Search of Religion" (1837, anonymously); "Maro, or Poetic Sensibility" (1846, anonymously); "Theory of Reasoning" (2d ed., 1852); "Philosophy of the Human Mind" (three series, 1855, 1858, 1863); "The Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings" (2 vols., 1861-62); etc.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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