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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$fear 1653, intituled De Loquela, [of Speech *] prefixed to his Grammar of the ’inglifh Tongue, written alfoin Latin. In which Treatifè of Speech, ( to which he efers in this Dilcourfe, and on Confidence )f which he durft undertake that difficult task) he doth very diftinfily lay-down he Manner of Forming all Sounds of Let¬ ters ufual in Speech, as well of the Engs yifh as of other Languages -, which is, I ijhink, the Firtt Book ever Pubtifhed of hat Kind * ( for tho’ fame Writers for* merly have here and there occafionally âid fomething of the Formation of fome particular Letters, yet none, that I know if, had before him undertaken to give an Account of ail.; Whether any fince him iiave with more Judgment and Accurate- fcefs performed the fame, I will not take apon me to determine. In his Grammar \f the Englijh Tongue, (to which this of *■ Speech is prefixed ) he hath fo briefly * ATranf tnd clearly given an Account of this Lan- 'th*~ guage, as may be very Advantageous, not speech at ;>nly to Strangers, for the eafie Attain- likewife* of rfent thereof, bur even to the Englijh them- the Gram- Ives, for the clear Dilcovering (which wrlt,h w take Notice of) the true Genius of rable^and heir own Language. ufeful Addi¬ tions, it pre- ing for the Prefs -, the Whole mil be looked over by feveral Learn- Men, both of Town and the Vmverfitiet. If any Gentlemen that ave made Obfervations on the Engliftl Tongue, will be pleas'd t» mmmicate them to the &)okftiler, they flail be carefully infer ted p their proper Places* A$

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