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true nature of absolute power discover icsclf , agatest tthkh the tniddUnfc * & * - turn is not more secure , than the most exalted . Tyranny when glutted with the blood of thejzreat , . and the plunder i& ? * ttfe Vkfo , Wfff cbnSeseend to Htint humbler katne , anil % ake a peaceable
arid itmoeem fellow of a college the object of its persdeutJoh . Ift this instance , boe Wtnild almost imagine there wa « sonic irtstirictive s ^ g ^ city in the government of that time , which pointed out to them , even before he had made himself known to the world , the man who * was desttned . ro be the most
successful adversary of superstition and ty--iranny . Such is the literary monument raised to John Locke by a mind in many respefcts congenial , in a
wort which , under all the disadvantages of ati unfinished posthumous publication , contains too much of the language of the author ' s heart speedily to perish . That the University should not
long ago have retrieved her reputation , by paying some distinguished honours to the memory of her ill-requited son , may appear unaccountable , till it is recollected , what Oxford cannot forget , that the author of the " Essay concerning Human
Understanding /* was also the author of
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" Th 6 Letters fajt Tofcration /' ** The Tffeatises on Government /' and " The Reasonableness of Christianity . "
* Th £ fame # h 4 the Neglect of JLbfc&e , may welt justify the exciafiietiotvof the poet" See nations slowly wise , and meanly just , * 2 * o buried merit , raise the tardy bust ! ' *
The centennary of the revolution was celebrated , while its advocate had no ptfblic honours , though , it is worthy of retfnark , that , just at the same period , was
restored on the Royal Exchange the statue of Charles II . the per * secutor of Locke and the pensioner of France , but he was a crowned head , and as Shakespeare
sa ^ s " There ' s such divinity doth hed ? e a king /' The public prints have . * announced" a design at length to
rescue the national character from the reproach of . ingratitude to the-memory of Locke—a design which I hope will be amply encouraged . Your s SELECTOR .
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Art , !• Sermons on various Stilyectsy by Geopge Walkers F * R . S * fate Professor of Theology ^ in the A ^ w Co llege > and President of \ the ^ Philosophical and Literary Societyy Manchester . 4 vote . £ vo * Johnson . _
Xhe first and second volumes of these Sermons have , been > for years , uefpre the" public ; fpr ihey made their appearance from the press in
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1 790 *' . when the respectable author was pastor of the congrega * tion of Protestant dissenters , at . the High-Pavement , in Nottingha m *
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' * STILL rt £ A 9 D TO PRAIftE , VET NOT ATR . AID TO BLAMt . 1 ? OP& *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 328, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/36/
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