Pyrrho, “the father of the Greek sceptics,” contemporary with Aristotle.
Like, Carneades (ib.), he denied that there was any criterion of
certainty in the natural or the moral world
QUEDLINBURGH, an old town in Saxony at the foot of the Harz, long a
favourite residence of the mediaeval emperors
RALPHO, the clerk and squire of Hudibras in Samuel Butler’s satire of
that name
Rambouillet, the marchioness of this name was a wealthy patron of art
and literature, and gathered round her a select salon of intellectual
people, which degenerated into pedantry, was ridiculed, and dissolved at
her death in 1665
Ramus, Peter French, philosopher and humanist; attacked Aristotle and
Scholasticism; massacred on the eve of St, Bartholomew, 1572
Rehearsal, The, a burlesque based on Beaumont’s Knight of the Burning
Pestle, produced in 1671 by George Clifford, Duke of Buckingham, and
Samuel Butler
Relapse, a comedy by Sir John Vanbrugh (d. 1726), who also achieved some
distinction as a soldier and an architect
Richard Roe, nominal defendant in ejectment suits. CP. the “M. Or N.” of
the Prayer-Book
Richelieu . . Torcy, Richelieu and Mazarin were cardinals and statesmen
in the seventeenth century, whose power exceeded that of the king;
Colbert Louvis, and Torcy were influential and able men of the same
time, but dependent upon the royal pleasure
Robertson, William, wrote History of Scotland, History of the Reign of
Charles V., etc. A friend of Hume’s (1721-93)