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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    ( io ) i€. HERETICKS.] Let thofePerfons r igo- roufly treat you,who know not how many Sighs and Groans it cofts before one can attain to any fmall Knowledge of the Divine Being. Finally, let thofe Per¬ fons rigoroiiflv treat you, who were ne¬ ver fèduc’d by fuch Errors as they lee you have been deceiv’d by* I pafs by that molt pure Wifdom, to the Know¬ ledge of which very few Spiritual Per¬ fons arrive at in this Life * yet although they know it but in very fmall Meafure, becaufe they are Men, yet they know it without doubting. For in the Catho** lick Church it is not Penetration of Wit, nor Depth of Knowledge, but the Simplicity of the Faith, which makes People fure and fafe. Barbari quippe homines Roman<e, imo potius humanœ eruditions expertes, qui nihil omnino fciunt, nifi quod a Doftori- bus fuis audiunt \ quod audiunt hoc fe- quuntur, &c. Salvianus The Senfo of which take as follows. This Bilhop Ipeaking of the Arian Goths and Van- dais. They are a Barbarous People, fays he, who have not any Tafte of the Roman Learning, a'nd who are ignorant even of thofe Things with which almoft all the reft of Mankind are acquainted 5 they know nothing but wliat they have learnt from their Do&ors, and mind nothing but wbat they have heard from them. Whence People fo. ignorant as thefo
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