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by which I am not a little delighted , aince they spring from a source so agreeable and praiseworthy , and bring t& my knowledge , what above all
things 1 desire to know . I now discover $ M > wray mind > ruled and governed by a certain Sympathy , can harmonize with yours . O that I could also becomte wise by the same means . To confess
a truth , 1 use your characters , though inexpertly , but I am glad to advance so fan I wish that may be the case © a other subjects . I acknowledge your genius , to the guidance of which I freely resign myself . I thank you
touch for all your care and labour bestowed on letters , books , and my other affairs . How willingly would I amply repay them ! Farewell , and regard me as Yours affectionately , J . LOCKE .
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efcpt whatever is offtrfccL This i * ho small praise of one ad c ^ p ^ bTe of judging in all eafc&i , though Wie worst excuse possible for his <* oii * espoivdent . Yet sustained by that confidence I again venture to interrupt yo&r tnbtje Worthy pursuits . If , in So doin | j ,: I am committing a faulty I . WiH hok
accuse my fortune , which Ivoiild tjj £ ki most uiiworthy excuse , btot yourself , who are so unwilling to use restrrihit and coercion , whose humanity , benevolence and politeness * compel me ta fe ** l and acknowledge that I ought to express my gratitude , though aware that I am unequal to the task .
If you will proceed with me on such conditions , I shall be most eager to read your letters , though inclined to make my replies tardily , and from necessity , rattier thah inclination . Ifipju cannot avail yourself of thy excufcfc , therefore pray Write to me as largely
as possible . You will otherwise hcfar me complain grievously , that j ? du withhold , from a friend in need , what is in your power to bestow , and # hat you are bound , because you are able to give him . If I were now beginning to cultivate a mutual friendship
between us upon such unequal terms , I could scarcely bring my mind to propose them .. But as , from the commencement of our friendship , We have so proceeded , that you have been
prompt to render tnfe all the offices of benevolence , which I have too slowly and partially acknowledged , you must now excuse my confirmed , though bad habits , in which you find nothing new uor intentionally disrespectful .
You see what sort of a man you have for your correspondent . Yet , though faulty , I would not appear quite ungrateful . And do I cot , indeed , express some gratitudie , . while I love and admire in you that virtue , ia which I confess myself deficient ? la this matter I ask you to grant me an excuse which I cannot allow myself .
But enough of myself ; I pass to your more important concerns . I am not a little angry with your printer for delaying so long your learned and valuable work . I hope , as the smtiiher advances , the printers will be warmed into diligence . I also rejoice to hear of the Treatise , by Episcopius . * Concerning another 1 Prcft-. ; * Limborob ift wutl to hare possessed
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No- « . John Lovkb to Philip d Limhorch . Rotterdam , May 16 , 1687 . WHAT can be done with a man
who is neither able to sing nor prepared with an excuse ? To what purpose cau I use the liberty you allow me , without powers sufficient , properly , to employ it ? Your delightful style , replete with beauties , powerfully invites to ready
repeatedly , whatever you write , so that when I would take up my pen , and give you something of my own in return , I am greatly disheartened and deterred . Though it becomes a grate * ful mind to offer some reply to the
witty and agreeable communications of a friend , yet in an intercourse by letters it ae £ ms rash , and scarcely decent to return the rough-hewn for the polished , the rustic for the refined , the vile for the precious .
You , therefore , in vain , give me liberty of writing , a gift truly estimable ftl Its kind , but unless you can make me partaker of your genius , quite unavailing . For , in vain you Accuse my tardy use of this freedom , wlio have the ready and just defence
that it becomes not the dull to be loquacious , nor to return brass for gold , ao that in a * much a $ I am free , raeem liberal in not employing my freedom . 1 know your disposition , I kho ^ r your iftgen u oua tempe r , and how road / you aro from good-will to ai >
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/9/
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