The Life of John Locke, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1876 - 506 pages |
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... father's occupations as country attorney and captain in the parliamentary army - the civil war in the west Locke's birth and early training - home influences 1-11 • 11-16 His admission to Westminster school - the education provided for ...
... father's occupations as country attorney and captain in the parliamentary army - the civil war in the west Locke's birth and early training - home influences 1-11 • 11-16 His admission to Westminster school - the education provided for ...
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... father - his father's death - his property in Somersetshire 61-72 72-79 . 79-83 CHAPTER III . FURTHER RESIDENCE AT OXFORD [ 1660-1667 ] . Oxford after the Restoration - Locke's occupations as Greek lecturer , reader in rhetoric , censor ...
... father - his father's death - his property in Somersetshire 61-72 72-79 . 79-83 CHAPTER III . FURTHER RESIDENCE AT OXFORD [ 1660-1667 ] . Oxford after the Restoration - Locke's occupations as Greek lecturer , reader in rhetoric , censor ...
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... father claimed some sort of cousinship with a John Locke who was mayor of Bristol in 1642 , and who was descended from an earlier John Locke , sheriff of London in 1460 , and grandfather of Sir William Locke , 1 LIBRARY OF PE CHAPTER I ...
... father claimed some sort of cousinship with a John Locke who was mayor of Bristol in 1642 , and who was descended from an earlier John Locke , sheriff of London in 1460 , and grandfather of Sir William Locke , 1 LIBRARY OF PE CHAPTER I ...
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... father , which will be described hereafter .. 2 John at - Neale's Pedigree . 3 Additional MSS . , no . 4222 . 4 John ... father's business , and became a man of substance , lived at Bishop's Sutton , and was buried in Chew Magna ...
... father , which will be described hereafter .. 2 John at - Neale's Pedigree . 3 Additional MSS . , no . 4222 . 4 John ... father's business , and became a man of substance , lived at Bishop's Sutton , and was buried in Chew Magna ...
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... father's trade in cloth , who married twice , and had at any rate two sons , Peter Stratton , of Bristol , and John Bonville . Two other cousins of Locke's , Mary Doleman and Anne Hazel , were named by him in his will ; but I have not ...
... father's trade in cloth , who married twice , and had at any rate two sons , Peter Stratton , of Bristol , and John Bonville . Two other cousins of Locke's , Mary Doleman and Anne Hazel , were named by him in his will ; but I have not ...
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Page 133 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit...
Page 133 - A martial hero first, with early care, Blown, like a pigmy by the winds, to war. A beardless chief, a rebel, ere a man, So young his hatred to his Prince began.
Page 357 - I do not deny but history is very useful, and very instructive of human life ; but if it be studied only for the reputation of being an historian, it is a very empty thing ; and he that can tell all the particulars of Herodotus and Plutarch, Curtius and Livy, without making any other use of them, may be an ignorant man with a good memory, and with all his pains hath only filled his head with Christmas tales.
Page 165 - This presumptuous imposing of the senses of men upon the words of God, the special senses of men upon the general words of God, and laying them upon men's consciences together, under the equal penalty of death and damnation, this vain conceit that we can speak of the things of God better than in the words of God...
Page 267 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 244 - Were it fit to trouble thee with the history of this Essay, I should tell thee, that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side.
Page 18 - Can there be any thing more ridiculous, than that a father should waste his own money, and his son's time, in setting him to learn the Roman language, when, at the same time, he designs him for a trade...
Page 133 - Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast himself into the saint-like mould ; Groan'd, sigh'd, and pray'd, while godliness was gain, The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train.
Page 133 - A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Page 238 - Since charity obliges us to wish well to the souls of all men, and religion ought to alter nothing in any man's civil estate or right, it shall be lawful for slaves as well as others to enter themselves and to be of what church or profession any of them shall think best, and thereof be as fully members as any freeman.