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dr , (^ yc& ay s 6 nietimes wit h niore justice , ) te me * For though v ^ ryslow , * T will claim a place not qiffte the last among those wljo are
faithful in the cultivation of friendship . YouHvill judge if this language savour of arrogance . You bestow upon me u . &j $£ S $ rved praises , and if 1 once allow myself to regard them as merited , how high may 1 not exalt myself I
That decree of the Synagogue evidently appears to me to have been craftily published by the Jews , that their champion may have something to say to others , though he can give no answer to you . This , I think , was done for the express purpose of his retiring from the contest without the loss of his honour , and , as much as
possible , without ruining the cause . I know not whether your mode of argument would be pleasing to some conceited Christians , who approve nothing but what they do themselves ; but 1 scarcely think it will please the Jews , who will thus find themselves
more embarrassed by you than they haye been by those opponents , who , assimilating the Christian religion more to theirs , could not so readily find in it what they might justly oppose to the Jewish Creed .
Ever since I received your first book , ( for you are so bountiful that I must distinguish , ) 1 have been so con * stantly indisposed , that I have not yet been able to apply myself to peruse it . But as I am now daily amending , 1 trust I shall not long be without
that pleasure . In the mean time , accept my best thanks . And now , I trust , you will agree Vvith me , whom you have delighted with this double tribute of your regard , that this
production of the Jew is barbarous as to > the style and substance . But concerning your own , if you say any thing , you ought to reflect and acknowledge how much I have profited by you . Such in truth is the case . But I will no
longer contest the matter with you , lest you should refuse to send me a third book . I never found those letters from M . Le Clerc , which \ ou mention as
enclosed in yours , I hope there will be some means of sending them from Amsterdam , and that 1 shall soon receive , them . I pray you make my respects to him , to your wife , and to
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our mutual friends , and regard me , most excellent friend , as yours , Very affectionately , J . LOCKE .
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No . p . John Lode to Philip & lAmhorch . Rotterdam , Oct . % Q 16 OTVMost excellent Fhienp , AMONG cordials , and , as we call
them , restoratives , I find nothing so efficacious t \ $ the kindness of my friends . I feel myself very much refreshed by your last letters . 1 should have replied to your first some time since , could 1 have ventured to state
any certain opinion respecting my health . For often when . I have thought myself quite recovered , a relapse has suspended me between the pressure of disease and the hope of amendments so that I have deferred writing to you *
till , from the trial of a few days , I could promise myself to be again recovered . This delay called forth your last letter , full offriendship , and brought a remedy more pleasant and powerful even than that which you so kindly and carefully sent me from Dr . Veen by HeK
mont ; though it was in vain , for th ^ servant-maid carelessly overturned the phial and spilt all the contents . But I hope to have no farther occasion for remedies , for though 1 sometimes feel slight symptoms , I am willing to regard them not as threaten ings of a
disorder corning on but the remains of one passing away , I scruple not to write to you so minutely , because nothing less wpuld satisfy your kind solicitude on my account . I am very glad your complaint was removed by
so small a loss of blood . Use , I pray you , that remedy , though with great caution . When you feel some Oppressive weight , either of the head or stomach , you must immediately fly to
bleeding . If you neglect this advice , there is more to be apprehended for you , a healthy man , than for me an invalid . We valetudinaries area sort of hypocrites , who stop short of the mark to which we seem continually tending . I owe much to you , to your
colleagues , and my other friends at Amsterdam , nor can I hope to live long enough to acknowledge such benevolence , yours especially , as it de * serves . Of this , however , be assured , that , insignificant as I am , I amen *
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The Correspondence between Loeke aiid Limh&rch , translated . 163
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 163, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/11/
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