An essay concerning humane understanding ... / written by John Locke.

  • John Locke
Date:
1695
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Credit: An essay concerning humane understanding ... / written by John Locke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fome Thoughts not wholly different from yours. If your Lordjhip thinly fity that, by your encourage¬ ment, this fhould appear in the Worlds I hope it may be a Reafon Jome time or other, to lead your Lordjhip farther • and you will allow me to fay, That you here give the World an earned of fome- thing, that) if they can bear Vvith this, will be truly worth their expectation. This, my Lord, /hews * Trefent I here make to your Lordjhip • juft Juch as the poor Alan does to his Rich and Great Neighbour, by whom the Basket of Flowers, or Fruit5 is not ill taken, though he has more plenty of his own growth, and in much greater perfecti¬ on. Wcir thiefs Things receive a Value, when they are made the Offerings of RefpeCt, Efieem, and Gratitude : Thefe you have given me Jo mighty and peculiar Reafons to have in the highest degree for your Lordjhip, that if they can add a price to what they go along with, proportionable to their om Greatnefs, I can with Confidence brag, I here make your Lordjhip the richest Brefent, you ever received, This I am. fure, I am under the great- efi Obligation to feef all occafions to acknowledge a long Tram of FIvors, I have received from your Lordjhip • Favors, though great and important in themfelves, yet made much more fo by the Forward- nefs, Concern, and Kindnejs, and other obliging Circum fiances, that never failed to accompany them, To all this you are pleafed to add that, which gives yet more weight and relifb to all the rett : Ton vouchfafe to continue me in fome degrees of your EJleem, and allow me a pi ace in your good I boughts, I had almofi faid Friendfhip. This, my Lord, your Words and AUions Jo conjlantly Jhew on all occafi- [b] ons
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