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ship and ' gratitude ,: when I persist in the sentiment that such benefits as I have received from you , words neither can , nor ought to describe sufficiently * And unless I find . that you all oppose
my . Wish ' with more power than 1 can resist , I must prevail upon yau to remove my indisposition at once , by your authority , ( for I know your influence with the excellent "Veen , ) and to put an end to my just complaints by coming to visit me ^
Then , as you seem to promise , but alas ! how distant is the performance * I might enjoy your and our friends ' society among these hills and shady woods I should seem to catch a
glimpse of the golden age . ror virtue , benevolence , peace and sincerity , dwell only in the country ; crowded cities have scarcely a place for them . Thus the poets sang . Whether the historians give a different account , I will
not now inquire * I rejoice that your brother ' s health is restored * and without more serious symptoms . I could not read that part of your letter where you refer to your
writings , without regret , conscious of my loss of amusement and information from not having yet seen some of them ; from which 1 promise myself as much useful information as I have
derived from those I have already perused . If you will allow me to speak ¦ w ith sincerity and freedom , I have never found opinions stated more clearly , better sustained by the force © f argument , farther removed from the
prejudices of a party , or , in every respect more agreeable to truth . In this you cannot doubt my sincerity when you perceive that , though assuming the censor , I could fasten the ¦ malignant tooth of criticism on so few
passages . But , woe is me , I have lost nearly all the advantage I hoped from my critical severity 5 for , many of the things which I vainly noticed , on reading them , were not so much for your correction , as for my information , -when we could have a fort her
conference . You must not , therefore , thank such a busy body hs myself . It is enough if you acquit me of a disposition too inquisitorial , and of an eager search after an occasion of censure ; however , it is a proof that a piece is well executed when , one is forced to look for small blemishes . I wish the
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work * I am preparing were in . sucll a language , that you jcould correct the faults . You might amply average yourself by discovering a multitude /
I can easily credit what you say respecting the critic of the critic , f I no sooner reached that part of the eleventh letter , than I seemed to hear a violent clamour as if religion herself were destroyed - well knowing the
manner of such sort of persons , that so much the less they can detect of heresy , and especially of any offence against the divine honour , so much the more do they burst forth into loud reproaches and calumnious accusations .
* His " Essay on the Human Understanding * . " Le Clerc , who read English , speaks of having- seen a part of it in MS « in 1688 . Vide J . Clerici Vita . Amst 1711 . P . 47 . He also translated into
French , An -Abridgment of the Essay hj the author , and published it imt his Bibliotheque UniverseIle , in 1688 . The whole work first appeared in 1689 , on Mr . Locke ' s return to England .
f One critic was Le Clerc , and the other Father Simon . In the character of Prior of Bolleville ^ he had published an answer to a work by Le Clerc , which first appeared in 1685 ,, under the followingtitle , Sentimens de quelques The ' ologiens de Hollande r sur VHistoire Critique du Vieux Testament ^ compose ' epar M . Richard Simon , pretre . The parts of Le Clerc ' s work which Mr . Locke here notices are
the eleventh and twelfth letters , the same which were published in an English translation in 1690 , 18 m o . with the Defence of them against the Prior of Bolleville ^ under the title of 6 C Five Letters concerning 1 the Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures . " These were answered by Mr . Lowth , the
Commentator , father of Bishop Lowth , in ' * A Vindication of the Divine Authority and Inspiration of the Writings of the Old and New Testament . ' Oxford , 1692 . Le Clerc professed not to have fully adopted all the free opinions which he states In these Letters . He thus writes , speaking- of himself in the third person : Verum in
eo opere ^ non semper sententias ^ quas as et jiocas habere vellet ? sed alienas etidnt ut amicorum de kistoria critica colloquen ~ tiurn conjecturas in medium protulit ^ and this declaration he presently applies to the dissertation on Inspiration , in the eleventh and twelfth letters ; quoting Mr . Locke ' s authority for such a bold method of investigating truth . Fide J . Clericji Vita et Opera . Pp . 51 52 and 246 \
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86 The , ( Correspondence between Locke and Limborch ? translated *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 86, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/6/
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