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THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LOCKE AND* / ' , LIMBORCH, TRANSLATED, WITH HISTORICAL NOTES. —¦agSg gtjffly mi"'
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Sir , Clapton ? Bee * 21 , 1817 . HAD occasion , not along ago * to I look into the letters which passed between Locke and Limborch , and which form a large part of the Familiar Letters . Having some leisure * I occupied myself upoti that correspondence , then almost new to me * till i had translated the whole . It consists
of sixty-nine letters , all in Latin , except three in French ; forty-three written by Locke , and twenty-six by Limborch . They discuss , as might have been expected from the writers ,
several interesting subjects , and it may not be unsuitable to your purpose to give the translations , in a series , as your engagements shall allow . I will subjoin a few notes , and prefix some account of Lockets and Limborch s
histories prior to the date of the first letter . X To RUTT . John Locke was born at Wrington , * a village near Bristol * August 9 Q 9 163 S , of parents whom he recollected with great regard . His father
was bred to the law , and had inherited a considerable estate in the county of Somerset . This was injured by the war , in which he became a captain in the army of the Parliament . He was also Steward or Court-keeper to the anti-royalist * Colonel Alexander Popfaaira . f
Mr . Locke ' s father survived his son ' s advance to manhood , when , according to Le Clerc , " they lived together rather as two friends , lhan as two persons , one of whom might justly
claim respect from the other / ' though the father had been ** severe to him , while a child , and kept him at a very great distance . " The son " often commended—such a manner / ' J perhaps more than it might justly deserve .
John Locke was educated by his father ^ till his removal to ' Westminster School * them under the tuition of Dr . Busfo y ^ and where he remained till he was admitted a student of Christ
* See Mon . Mepos . I . 287 . f Brit . Biog \ VII . 3 . J Mibliotheque Choisie in Brifco Biog ubi sup .
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Church , Oxford , in . 1651 * In the " Memoirs-of the-Life of Dr . South , " ., ( 17 Kj- ) it is said / that * ' he was elected with the great Mr . John Locke an equal ornament of polite and abstruse
learning } " . and it is remarkable that two young , students should have set out together ? whose paths : were soon to separate so widely . South s who was Locke ' s junior by a year ^ had been also a scholar at Westminster . In
1653 , also * their names occur together among the academical panegyrists of Cromwell , on the successful terminal tion of the war with Holland . * Dr » John Owen * who , in lQ 5 % be ~ came Vice-Chancellor of the University , was Dean of Christ Church ,, during the period of John Locke ' s academical education . His tutor was
Mr . Thomas Cole * who was ejected in 1660 for non-conformity , and lived to witness the celebrity of his pupil , f On the recollection and authority of Mr . Tyrrell * the historian * it is said , " that Mr . Locke was looked upon as
the most ingenious young man in the College * " though , from disaffection to the mode of education then pursued , " he wished his father had never sent him to Oxford . " Le Clerc says , « ' I myself have heard him . Complain of the method he took in his studies at
first;—and when I told him that 1 had a Cartesian Professor for my tutor * a man of a clear tiead , he said he was not so happy 5 though it is well kiowa that he was no Cartesian . " He complained that " the only philosophy then known at Oxford , was the
Peripatetic , perplexed with obscure terms and stuffed with useless questions . " % In 1655 , Mr . Locke became B . A ., and M . A . in 1658 . His first destination was medicine , and he pursued " the usual courses , " practisijtg occasionally at Oxford till , in 1664 2 he went into Germany , as Secretary to
* " State Poems continued , 1698 , pp . 6—8 , 12 , 13 , and Mon . Repos . ¦ V . 232 f Thomas Cole , M . A ,, was u Principal of St . Mary ' s Hall / 1 whence he was ejected by the King ' s Commissioners in 1660 He died in 1697 . See Palmer's Noncon * Mem . 1802 , III . 240 , 252 . J Bib . Chois , in Brit . Biog 0 VII . 4 ^ 5 *
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The Correspondence Between Locke And* / ' , Limborch, Translated, With Historical Notes. —¦Agsg Gtjffly Mi"'
THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LOCKE AND * / ' , LIMBORCH , TRANSLATED , WITH HISTORICAL NOTES . —¦ agSg gtjffly mi "'
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/11/
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