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
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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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    V. Cl») ADVERSARIORUM METHODUS. much better to find out the Paffage with¬ in fome few Pages of the Plate, than to be at the Trouble of turning over the whole Book to find it ; as you mult do if the Book has no Index, or where the Index is not very correfi A C H E R U SI A. ] F rat urn, fid a moriu- orum Habitatio eft Locus prope Mem- phim^juxtci Paludem, quam vacant Ache- rufiam., 0V. This is a Paffage taken out of the Firft Book of Diodorus Siculus, the Senfe of which is this : The Fields, where they feign the Habitation of the Dead to be, is a Place not far from Memphis, near the Marfh called Ache- rufia., where there are mofi: Delightful Fields, with Lakes and Woods of Lotus and Calamus* It is not without Reafon then that Orpheus fays the Dead inhabit thofè Places, becaufe it is there that the moft and greateft Funeral Solemnities of the ^Egyptians are Celebrated ; they carry the Dead over the River Niie^ and the Marfh Acherufia, and lay them in Sub¬ terraneous Vaults. There are other Stories among the Grecians concerning the Shades below, which are very like thofe Stories which are invented at this Day in Ægypt. For they
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