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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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mr . locke ' s monument — bisho p law — anecdote of mr . robert hobinson . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir ,
The letter of Amicus in your last Number , brought to . my recollection a complaint on the same subject , made nearly thirty years ago , by the late Dr . Law , Bishop of Carlisle . At the close of the preface to the works of Locke in 4 to . 1177 , of which he is well known to have been the Editor , he says , " I cannot dismiss this imperfect account of Mr . Locke and his works *
without giving way to a painful reflection , which the consideration of them naturally excites . When we view the variety of
those very useful and important subjects which have been treated in so able a manner by our author , and become sensible of the numerous national obligations due to his memory on that account , with what indignation must we behold the remains of that great and good man , lying under a mean mouldering
tombstone , ( which but too strictly verifies the prediction he had given of it and its little tablet , as ipsa brevi peritura ) in an obscure country church-yard—by the side of a forlorn woodwhile so many superb monuments are daily erected to perpetuate names and characters hardly worth preserving . " These regretful feelings the learned Editor of Locke had , no doubt , indulged ^ like your correspondent , while musing over
his grave . He mentions in the same preface , having formerly visited the library at Oates , a contiguous mansion , where Mr *
Locke resided during the last ten or twelve years of his life , which he devoted principally to the study of the Scriptures . Here his ^ declining age was cherished by the attentions of Sir Francis Masham and his Lady—a daughter worthy of her father , the learned Dr . Cudworth . The mansion of Oates which the
author of cc the character of Mr . Locke , " published in 1705 , fondly imagined would < c be famous to posterity for the loner abode that great man made there , " was levelled with the ground about four years ago , and the ploughman now plods his weary way" over a spot once the residence of so many virtues and accomplishments . But I am wandering from the grave of Locke .
The Latin inscription was not " written by a friend of the deceased , " but by himself , as Amicus would have immediately perceived , had he observed the passage , iC lrit tutes si quaSy habuit" &c . a strain of humility which no friend would
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/8/
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