A new method of making common-place-books / written by the late learned John Lock, author of the Essay concerning humane understanding ; translated from the French. To which is added something from Monsieur Le Clerc, relating to the same subject ... There are also added two letters, containing a most useful method for instructing persons that are deaf and dumb, or that labour under any impediments of speech, to speak distinctly; writ by the late learned John Wallis.

John Locke

Date:: 1706

Credit: A new method of making common-place-books / written by the late learned John Lock, author of the Essay concerning humane understanding ; translated from the French. To which is added something from Monsieur Le Clerc, relating to the same subject ... There are also added two letters, containing a most useful method for instructing persons that are deaf and dumb, or that labour under any impediments of speech, to speak distinctly; writ by the late learned John Wallis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Adverfarî- I take a White Paper Book of what , •rum Me- Size I think fit, I divide the Two Firft which face one another, by parallel ©/ Common Lines, into Five and Twenty equal parts, Placci. with Black Lead ^ after that, 1 cut then? perpendicularly by other Lines, which I draw from the Top of the Page to the Bottom, as you may fee in the Table or Index, which I have put before this Wri¬ ting Afterwards I mark with Ink every Fifth Line of the Twenty Five that I juft now fpeke of. [ The other Unes are made with Red Lead) but for Convemency one may make them wiih Black Lead, which ü better for XJfe than Red Lead. ] I put at the Beginning of every Fifth Space, or before the Middle, One of the Twenty Letters which are defign’d for this life} and a little farther in every Space, One of the Vowels in their Natural Order. This is the Index of Table of the whole Volume, be it of what Size foever. \ * The Index being thus made, I mark out, in the other Pages of the Book, the Margin with Black Lead * I make it about the big- nefs of an Inch, or a little bigger, if the Volume be in rolio^ but in a lefs Volume the Margin is proportiônably lefs alfo. If I would put in y Thing in my Com¬ mon-Place Book, I look a Head to which l may refer it, that I may be able to find$

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