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    inconveniences of life * yet I cannot be deprived of your society , without great trouble of mini ] . For you have been accustomed to instruct me by your learning , to confirm my judgment by your own * to 8 > uide me by your advice ,

    and to console me by your friendly intercourse ^ in short * you have been the daily solace of my cares * But 1 irave generally found that my ill-fortune has rarely permitted me to enjoy what I have most desired . That I

    aaayp therefore , wear away as easily as I can this tedious separation ? you dught to afford me the relief of your frequent correspondence y now especially while you are yet allowed

    oppoftunity and leisure from those domestic foes * who are meditating an attack upon you . This , I doubt not , you expect in such an age as this in which we live .

    If candidly , and as friends of truth , Hiey would try with you the force of arguments , I know they could not displease , for you are disposed to embrace truth * wherever discovered . But if by displaying their rage , craft and -malignity , they merely gratify a few like themselves , whatever happens

    you will certainly depart unhurt ami a conqueror * because you seek truth , not victory . But , to speak my mind , I expect little from such quarrelsome disputants , who seek reputation rather by degrading others , than by advancing themselves . He deserves praise as a workman who rears an edifice

    But let us leave these brawlers to themselves and their own conceits * If you have fiy&wd & ¦¦ . «¦« . * more iihd and libeMd , I rejoice , for I constantly desire to see the peace-makers increase ? especially among the

    Reformed , who daily exhibit too much contention . An enemy katli done this * Tlie friends to whose intimacy you have introduced me here , are men of another description . Both the Gre ^ - vius ^ s t seatd you their affectionate

    * Profci&ty Mtfimutij whose soft ' g dlspute with Limborch 'will appear in the farther part of this ^ oft ^ spoudence . -f- ^ Jolm Geoi ^ e Grevaus ivas Profe ssor at TTtrecht , during thirty years , till his dfciOy 4 » I $ b 3 . A ^ nori ^ his pupils was the ftftUous §» f ^ si 6 iiiti Dr / Mead tvho is « aid to have been { ttNMftltfl of a < colifaction of

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    fespectso Though I have Often inquired for Verymus , I have not yet seen him . He left the city one day this week . When he returns 1 shall speedily wait upon him . With good wishes for yourself , you . r wife and family ? believe me , Yours affectionately ? Jo LOCKE .

    Soon after the date of this letter ^ Mr , Locke returned to Amsterdam where he projected a society for literary conversation . Le Clerc , as quoted in the British Biography , ( VII . V 0 P ) says * ** In 1687 , Mr . Locke desired that Mr . Limborch and I , with some other friends , would set up conferences ? and that to this end we should meet

    together once a week , sometimes at one house and then at another by turns 3 and that there should be some question proposed , of which every one should give his opinion at the next meeting ; and I have still by me the rules , which he would have us observe * written in Latin with his owb

    band . " Mr . Locfce , however for what reason does not appear , in a few weeks removed again from Amsterdam . Le Clerc says * ** Our conferences were

    interrupted by his absence 9 because he went to Rotterdam , where he lodged with Mr . Furtey . " This gentleman , whose name will again occur in the following letters , was ,

    according to the JBioff . Brit . " , a moderate English Quaker of some learning /* who " tirrote very well against Antoinette Bourignon , the famous female vi&iotiafry of Lisle . * ' Mr . Locke , according to Le Clerc , made another short visit to Amsterdam , but ,

    otherwise , appears to have remained at Rotterdam till his return to England in 1689 . original letters in HS 8 ., written to Grevtos by the mout eminent persons in : learning' . " * Among these numerous correspondents tvas Mr . Locke . There are five JLotia

    letters from Grevius to Le Clerc , anng ^ w by the latter to bis own JLife , before qtiotexL The other Grevius was most probably ob © of the Professor ' s sons a youth of great hopes , " who " died in l 6 ? 2 , in his 33 d year , white he was preparing st new editio n of € « i 11 imachtifi , which was fimslied afterwurds I » y his fnlher , mdd printed m 1087 . ^ Biogr . Dtel » IWL VI . 2 $ * .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 88, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/8/