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afi Ewibassy . RetuYnifog in less than a year , he resumed bis studies at Oxford 9 applying especially to natural philosophy . * Mr . Locke was now to become a
politician . In 1686 * a trifling circumstance introduced him to an intimate acquaintance with the first Earl of Shaftesbury , then Lord Ashley ? who sooii consulted him as a physician ^ and paid him many flattering attentions , f This nobleman had plausibilities which might fascinate a
student unacquainted with the great woUd ; but his character , sisjaithful history records it , though possessing all but the most ifnporttint accomplishments ,, can add no reputation to the memory of John Locked Lord Ashley had fought against Charles h , atnd courted Cromwell , the chief of the
regicides , yet , ori a change of times , had sat in judgment on CfoiiiwelFs associates . % He has also been described , on his own authority , as a libertine ? surpassed only by his royal ihaster , Charles IL , § that most religious King 9 according to the liturgy . Lord Ashley invited Mr . JLocke to reside in his family . w He urged him tci apply himself to the study of state affairs and political subjects , both ecclesiastical and civil ; " and «« began to cdnsult him on all occasions of that
nature . He also introduced him to tbe acquaintance of the Duke of Buckingham , the Earl of Halifax , and some other of the most eminent persons of * that age . " | l It was to some of these noblemen ,
according to Le Clerc , that his friend , by a pleasant raillery , declared against the habit of card-play ing , among companions capable of impfrbving conversation . % The first employment in which Mr . Locke ' s patron appears to have
en-* Brit . Biog . VII . 5 . f Ibid . % Ibid . VI . 164 . § * He is said to > have beeis too inncili addicted to a licentious intercourse wilHi the female sex . W < g are told that King-Oharfes II . once said to the Earl , at Courfl ; , I believe , Shaftesbviry , thou art the wick-&de $ t fellow in my dominions . To which thfe Earl replied ^ May it please your Majesty ^ qf * a subject I beliete I am . " Ibid . im . Ibid - VII . 6 . q ibid .
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gaged him , was to draw Up : thB Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina / ' which were published in 1 669 * and collected atusong hi& 1 * ieces in
1719-If these Constitutions were all framed by himself ? there £ fe two , at < letist ^ which do him little credit * as in No » 2 S 9 he proposes to perpetuate feudal vassalage , and in No . 110 , negro sla * #
very . There were oth < ers hoifrevieri so favourable to religious liberty , tbat they were qualified by an additidflal article * not approved by Mr . Locke , whose liberal views in religioii have incurred the censure of one of his
biographers , f In l 66 s Mro Locke accompanied the Earl and Countess of Northuiti * berland to Paris . Returning , in 1670 , with the Courttess , tlie Earl having
died in Italy , be again resided with Lord Ashley , who * in" 1672 * Was treated Earl of Shaftesbliry , and made Lord High Chancellor when he ap * pointed "Mr . Locke *< Secretary of th ^ PresenfatioiiSo 1 v He next became § e * cretary to the Board of Trade , " but the commission was dissolved in
December , 1674 * J In l 675 f Mr . Locke wrote , according to Desniaizedux ' * what tiiy-JLottl Shaftesbury did , in a manner , dictate to him ^ in " A Letter from a Person of Q uality to his Friedd in the Couii * try , " exposing the designs theti developing in Parliament to establish art arbitrary powei * . * ' This letter i ^ ii s privately printed , " dnd " 'at the close 6 f the same year , * the House of Lord s *
ordered it to be burnt by the common hangman . " Of this bonfire Mr . Marvell says , the sparks of it will etteh ^ nally fly in the adversaries' fac £ s . " § It was remarked in the Letter 9 * that Bartholomew day was fatal to our church and religion * in throwing out
a very great number of Worthy learned , pious and oitliodftx divines . " This passage was quoted in 16 ? 6 , ira the preface to 6 & The Presbyterians Unmasked /* as from * that late vile letter" of art 6 & abl £ , but . more daring author . "
In the same year , 1675 , Mr . Lo £ ke , > who had been admitted B . M . at Oxford , passed sorue time - at Mont *
* See Mon . Eepos . II . S 3 . t See Biog * . Brit ; V . &t ) 94 * N » t 6 O . % Bnt .-Biog . VU . 6-, 7 B § See Dcdic . to Locke ' s Pieces .
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18 The Correspondence between J&dcke and l * imbor < ch 9 translated *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/12/
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