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THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LOCKE ANE> LIMBORCH, TRANSLATED, WITH HISTORICAL NOTES.
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The Correspondence between Locke and Lirnborch , 1685—1704 . ( Continued from p . 426 . ) No . 24 . John Locke to Philip a IAmborch . Oates 9 January IS , 1694 . SUCH as I have always regarded you , tny excellent friend , such I have ever found you , fitted for all the offices of the most sincere friendship .
You not only , from a readiness to oblige , omit no occasion of bestowing favours , but , what is more difficult , you overlook the faults of your friends as readily as others resent them . Though my long silence deserved a severe reproof , yet you no sooner
receive my tardy letter , than you pronounce my pardon . I acknowledge this kindness and candour , so gratifying to your friends , and indeed to every one * On this I may safely rely , while you forbear to estimate my friendship
by the number of my letters , or to suspect any diminution of it from my silence . Of this pray be assured , that I may want time and words , but that the friendship which I entertain , and shall always entertain for you , will never be unfelt or suffered to decline .
I have made but little progress in your History of the Inquisition , on which I lately wrote to you , having been hitherto prevented by continual engagements . But , judging of the remainder by the two first books ,
which I fc * ead with no small pleasure , nothing can be more complete in its kind , or calculated to give a more accurate description of that tribunal . I commend your care in » o frequently citing the exact words of the authors . Had the mere pleasure of the reader
been the design , I am aware you might have employed , with more effect , your own concise and elegant style . But when describing such a race of men you rightly determined
that their crimes , frauds and cruelties , would be best represented by themselves : they would , indeed , be scarcely credited from a stranger and an opponent . As to some passages which you
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discovered in other authors , too late for insertion in the proper places of your printed work , and written in the margin of your copy , if they are not so long as to give you too much
trouble in transcribing , pray oblige me with them to adorn my copy , which may thus be complete in all its parts ; wanting nothing to the full display of this mystery of iniquity .
Your letters , by the Irishman , he himself delivered , visiting me here in the country . 1 found him such as you describe . There are many here who encourage his wishes . I shall be glad to see the projected elegant edition of Castellio , and doubt not but it will be admired amongst us » * As to what
you write respecting the publication of my learned friend , Toignard ' s Harmony of the Gospel , t I have indeed thought nothing about it , and what is more , shall never think about it , unless on every occasion to advise and urge the author to bring out that work in the most finished form . It
is not that I envy the learned world this treasure , for , while we corresponded , I always urged him to publish it . But it appears to me , that the copy was not intrusted to me with licence to send it to the press without the knowledge and consent of the
author . W . ere it my property , it should immediately be sent to the press , but while he is living , or otherwise while there shall be any expectation that any of his family may bring it out , no gain whatever shall tempt me to publish it . A book lately appeared here which Toignard J would be very glad to see .
If you can find a way to send it to him you will much oblige me . The book I wish to send him is John Mallela of Antioch , lately published at Oxford . If you find an opportunity of sending it , pray purchase the book of your bookseller , bound or unbound , as best suits the conveyance .
* See p . 426 . f See p . 422 , and WhistoiTs Mem Ed . 2 , pp . 114 , 102 . t See p . 423 .
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The Correspondence Between Locke Ane≫ Limborch, Translated, With Historical Notes.
THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LOCKE ANE > LIMBORCH , TRANSLATED , WITH HISTORICAL NOTES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 476, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/4/
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