Locke and Sydenham : with other occasional papers / by John Brown.

  • John Brown
Date:
1858
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Credit: Locke and Sydenham : with other occasional papers / by John Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    posthumous EJfay on the ConduEl of the Under- ftanding, of which Mr. Hallam fays, “ I cannot think any parent or inftruftor juftified in negled- ing to put this little treatife in the hands of a boy about the time that the reafoning faculties become developed,” and whofe admirable author we fhall now endeavour to prove to have been much more one of their own guild than is generally fuppofed. In coming to this conclufion, we have been mainly indebted to the clafTical, eloquent, and conclufive traft by Lord Grenville,^ entitled, Oxford and Locke; to Lord King’s life of his great kinfman ; to Wood’s Athena and Fajii Oxonienfes; to the letters from Locke to Drs. Mapletoft, Molyneux, Sir Hans Sloane and Boyle, publilbed in the collefted edition of his works; to Ward’s Lives of the Grelham Pro- feflbrs; and to a very curious colledlion of letters of Locke, Algernon Sidney, the fecond Lord Shaftefbury, and' others, edited and pri- vately printed by Dr. Thomas Forfter; and to a Medical Common-place Book, and many very interefting letters on medical fubjedls, by his great kinfman, in the pofleflion of Lord Love- lace, and to which, by his Lordfbip’s kindnefs, we had accefs ; fome of the letters are to Fletcher of Saltoun, on the health of his brother’s wife, ' See Note A.
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