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not heeu able to reach that short distance . But I am sure your book was delivered to him as well as to the rest . And I took care that our common friend , Mr . Clarke , should wait upon him , * and excuse your sending him the book unbound , an excuse 1 designed for all the rest , though it ' in some instances neglected .
You may well be surprised that I , who owe you thanks not less in my own name than in the names of these persons , should be so tardy where expedition were most becoming , that , neglecting the most convenient place , I should retire into the country before I wrote to you . But the fact is , I go
to the city in health , but am so affected by the shortest stay there that I can scarcely breathe . The malady continually increases upon me , till I am quickly driven away ; being obliged to fly from London , though to the inconvenience of neglecting all my affairs there .
I have brought down your book with me , that by your kindness Lady Cudworth [ Masham ] and I may this winter enjoy Attic evenings , which could only be enhanced by the presence of the ^ author , and the Attic salt
which he always brings with him . I returned hither on Saturday . To-day we began to read your work , with what pleasing expectation you may easily judge , but be assured , that our gratitude to you was not less than our own delight .
By your letter , dated 10 th October , I first understood how many copies you had sent hither , and for whom . I contrived with my host and
book-* I expect every day several books concerning the Inquisition , writ by Mr . Limborch . Amongst the rest there is one for the Bishop of Bath and Wells , with a letter to him . I have ordered Mr . Pawlingto put what is for that worthy bishop into your hands , to be delivered him by you in my stead , and with my service . Pray excuse my not having waited upon him , as I have a long time desired , and hope ere
long I shall have the opportunity to do , though it be one of the inconveniencies I suffer from my ill lung's , that they usually driFe me out of town ' wnen most of my friends and those whom I wish to be near are ii it /* Mr . Eocke in a letter to Mr . Clavfce , 11 th Nov . 1692- . " MS ; Brit . Mus See p , 356 .
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seller , Smith , that all these should be delivered before a single copy could be sold here / This has been punctually performed ; nor in that part has any attention been neglected , of which such an excellent and seasonable work is worthy . But what at last is to
be done with the MS . copy in your baud-writing , which I recommended to be deposited in some place of safety among our archives , that it might forever impudent adversaries . * But I shall readily inquire what place will be the most secure .
I rejoice that the Life of Episcopius is to be stamped with immortality by your pen ; but in what language ? As it is , I apprehend , to be prefixed to his Sermons , in Dutch , now publishing , I fear lest his Life should also appear in a tongue with which I am little acquainted . Yet I congratulate the learned world on this intended
memorial of a man so excellent and learned , all whose works are well worthy of preservation . There has been lately published here , John Malela , f of Antioch , whose work my friend Toinard % has long and anxiously desired to see .
Pray request Wetstein , as soon as he receives any copies of that book , ( which I know will be sooner than I could send one to Amsterdam , ) to convey a copy immediately toToinard , and to charge me with the expense ,
which i will readily repay . MaJela is an author of no great name or credit . But on some dubious point of chronology , Toinard hoped to receive light from him , and I wish very much to assist his design . Therefore attend ,
* This sentence is thus defective in the original : Sed quid tandem statuendum est de MS . codice autographo , quod eg-o in tutissiiTio aHquo loco infer archiva leponendum suaderem , ut in perpetuum \ . efFrontes adversarios faciat fidem . " Works , Fol . 1740 . III . 625 .
f " A writer near the end of the sixth century , and of little credit . ' Lardner , VII . 331 . { A learned Frenchman , who died at Paris , in 1706 , aged 77 . He . was
distinguished as a . Medallist , but his principal work was a Harmony of the Four Evangelists , in Greek and Latin , with learned Notes on Chronology and History . See Nouv . Diet . Hist . Art . Nicolas Thoyndrd .
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The Correspondence between Locke and Limborchf translated . 4 £ S
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 423, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/15/
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