A treatise of freewill / by Ralph Cudworth ; now first edited from the original MS and with notes by John Allen.

  • Cudworth, Ralph, 1617-1688.
Date:
1838
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Credit: A treatise of freewill / by Ralph Cudworth ; now first edited from the original MS and with notes by John Allen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    who had a veneration for the name of Mr. Locke, and was concerned to hear that any of his writings were in danger of being lost, went to Barnes, to see these manuscripts ; and being positively assured by Mr. Davis, that they were the real compositions of that eminent man, he immediately purchased them for forty guineas. He was, however, soon con- vinced, after an examination of them, that the authority of the bookseller was fallacious. This being the case, he remonstrated against the decep- tion; and the vender condescended to take them again, upon being paid ten guineas for his dis- appointment in the negotiation. In the investigation of the manuscripts, the gentleman having discovered by many incontestible proofs, that they were the writings of Dr. Cudworth, he recommended them to the curators of the British Museum, by whom they were purchased, and thus, at last, after many perils and mutilations, they are safely lodged in that noble repository.” [^Chiefly exinacted from a contribution by S. A. to the Gentloman s Magazine^ 17^15, p. 11 ^^6-]