"Whether even those Parts of Academical Learning which are quite forgotten, may not have improved and enriched the Soil, like those Vegetables which are raised, not for themselves, but plowed in for a Dressing of Land?"
The Querist 
Originally published in three installments 1735, 1736, 1737; substantially revised in 1750. At least 13 entries in ESTC (1735, 1736, 1737, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1760).<br>
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Earliest result in ECCO: <u>The Querist, Containing Several Queries, Proposed to the Consideration of the Public. By the Right Reverend Dr. George Berkley, Lord Bishop of Cloyne. To Which Is Added, by the Same Author, a Word to the Wise: or, an Exhortation to the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland.</u> (London: Printed for W. Innys, C. Davis, C. Hitch, W. Bowyer; and sold by M. Cooper, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1750). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW121257946&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>A Miscellany, Containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects. By the Bishop of Cloyne.</u> (London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004805982.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;