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industry still left me , which alone have been able to raise sufficient fortunes . Pray , Sir , therefore , make your life as comfortable and lasting as you can ; let not any consideration of us cast you into the least despondency . If I have any reflections on , or desires of free and competent subsistence , it is in reference
more to another ( whom y < iu may guess ) to whom I am very much obliged , than for myself ; but no thoughts , how important soever , shaft make me forget my duty ; and a father is more than all other relations ; and the greatest satisfaction I can propose to myself in the world , is my hopes you may yet live to receive the return of some comfort , for all that care and indulgence you have placed in ,
fcir , your most obedient son " , J . L . " The following is extracted from a letter written by Mr . Locke from Cleves , in 1665 . It shews a little of his feeling as to religious parties : " In the afternoon , I went to the Carthusians' church ; they had their little gentry too , but in finer clothes ; and their angels with surplices on , and singing books in their hands ; for here is nothing to be done without books . Hither were crowded a great throng of children to see these pretty babies , i tnem
ana amongst , as wise and as devout as they , and for my pains had a good sprinkle of holy water , and now I may defy the devil : thus have I begun the holidays with Christmas gambols . But had I understood the language , I believe , at the Reformed church , I had found something more serious ; for they have two sermons at their church , for Christmas lasts no longer here . That which pleased me most was , that at the same Catholic church the next day , I saw our Lady all in white linen , dressed as one that is newly lain in , and on her lap something" that , perhaps twenty years since , was designed for a baby , but now it was grown to have a beard ; and methought was not so well used as our country fellows used to be , who , though they escape all the year , are usually trimmed at Christmas . They must partor
aon me Deing- merry , for it is Ulinstmas : but , to be serious with you , the Catholic religion is a different thing from what we believe it in England . I have other thoughts of it than when I was in a place that is filled with prejudices , and things are known only by hearsay . I have not met with any so good-natured people , or so civil , as the Catholic priests , and I have received many courtesies from them , which I shall always gratefully acknowledge . But to leave the good-natured Catholics , and to give you a little account of our brethren the Calvinists , that differ very little from our English Presbyterians . I met lately , accidentally , with a young sucking divine , that thought himself no small champion ; who , as if he had been some knight-errant , bound by oath to bid battle to all comers , first accosted me in courteous
voice ; but the customary salute being over , I found myself assaulted most furiously , and heavy loads of arguments fell upon me . I , that expected no such thing " , was fain to guard myself under the trusty broad shield of ignorance , and only now and then returned a blow by way of inquiry : and by this Parthian way of flying , defended myself till passion and want of breath had made him weary , and so we came to an accommodation : though , had he had lungs enough , and I ho other use of my ears , the combat might have lasted ( if that may be called a combat , ubi tu cades ego vapulo tantum ) as long as the wars of Troy , and the end of all had been like that , nothing but some rubbish of divinity as useless and incoherent as the ruins the 'Greeks
left behind them . This was a probationer in theology , and , I believe , ( to keep still to my errantry , ) they are bound to shew their prowess with some valiant unknown , before they can be dubbed , and receive the dignity of the order . I cannot imagine why else he should set upon me , a poor innocent wight , who thought nothing of a combat , and desired to be peaceable , and was too far from my own dunghill to be quarrelling ; but , it is no matter , there were no wounds made but in Prisclan ' s head , who suffers much in this country . "—Pp . 15 , 16 .
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Life of John Loch& . 64 \
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1829, page 641, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2576/page/41/
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