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their usefulness is increasing and everlasting . cc Many a man /* says Milton . " lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit , embalmed and irea- * sured up , on purpose to a life beyond life /' ** A plain substantial monument , " ought , however ( as your " New Correspondent * ' asserts ) , to be erected , and the sooner a subscription for this purpose is set on foot the better . I am persuaded that the scheme waits only fpr two or three respectable gentlemen to take the management of it , and to explain its propriety ; after which there can be little doubt of success .
You , Mr . Editor , have many disciples of J , ocke among your readers ; permit me to call upon some of them to exsrt themselves upon this laudable occasion- It would be an additional proof of the value of your Repository , if it shoujd be the means of exciting the attention of the friends of liberty , philosoph y ^ and rational religion , to this interesting subject , aqd of indue * ing them to testify their faith by their good works .
Your constant reader May 7 . ¦ A Disciple of Locke *
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mr . locke ' s native place . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , As you have interested your readers upon the subject of the honours so justly due , and yet so sparingly paid , to the memory of John Locke , I am encouraged to offer you the following information * I am indebted for it to a late conversation with a clergyman of Oxford , who is an intimate friend of Mrs . Hannah More .
At Wrington , the birth-place of Locke ., about 12 miles frota Bristol , in the grounds of the lady just mentioned , an urn has been placed , which was a present from another authoress , nour deceased , well known to the literary world by her € i Essay on
the Writings apd Genius of Shakespeare , " in opposition to the petulant criticisms of Voltaire . On the urn is the following inscription : — " To John Locke , born in this village , this memorial is erected by Mrs , Montague , and presented to Hannah More / ' Thus the renown of the philosopher casts a veil
over the heresy of the theologian , and the author of the Rea- > sonableness of Christianity as delivered in the Scriptures " receives un qualified honors from a zealous believer in the mysteries of Christianity as delivered in the creeds and articles of cc the Church by Jaw established /* It appears from CollinSon ' s History and Antiquities of So-
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$ frf Locke ' s Native Place . 287
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/7/
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