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      To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

      • corrected and enlarged ^ " of a * Dialogue between a Predestinarian and his Friend , " which closes as follows : " Pred . What then do you think of absolute , unconditional election and reprobation ? ' ¦ * Friend * I think it cannot be

      found in Holy Writ , and that it is a plant which bears dismal fruit . An instance of which we have in Calvin himself , who confesses that he procured the burning to death of Michael Seryetiis r A WISE AND HOLY MAN , purely for

      To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

      differing from him in opinion in matters of religion . ' V I have copied this curious cot ) , cession , verbiitim et literatim ^ from page 14 of this interesting Dialogue . You will use your own judgment with respect to the printing of it , I must not ,

      however , omit to transcribe the very appropriate mptto affixed to the Dialogues " Out of thine own mouth !** lam , & c . J . NIGHTINGALE ,

      532 Two Juvenile Productions Of Locke's.

      532 Two Juvenile Productions of Locke ' s .

      Two Juvenile Productions Of Lockb's.

      TWO JUVENILE PRODUCTIONS OF LOCKB ' s .

      To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

      To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

      Clapton ^ April 15 / 1810 . SIR , I lately met with two juvenile productions of Locke , which , so far as I have observed , are not found in the collections of his works , nor mentioned by his bio * eranlitfrs . These nieces are in An

      8 vo . volume , printed 1697 , and entitled u Poems on Affairs of State , from the lime of Oliver Cromwell to th £ Abdication of James the Second / ' To the first part is annexed a second , entitled ,

      ** State Poems continued . " This part commences with Oxford Verses ^ in Latin and English , on Cromwell ' s peace with the Dutch , In 1654 . Crew , South , Spratt , and Godolphin , who all , in good time , made their paace with the

      To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

      Stuarts , were among the panegyrists upon that occasion . Locke , astudent of Christ Church- at the « - ** 4 J ft * W * ^ M . ^ J A . 4 % f % * + ^ - ^ I . A A M . KS + J - * ** S M . A VI A X- / *•* « »*• V % M-M \ s

      age of 22 5 now tried his powers of Latin arid English versification . His Latin verses , addressed to Cromwell , are as follows r ( p . 8 . )

      Pax regit Augusti , quern vicit Julius , orbem ; Ille sago factui clatioiy ille togl . H 08 sua Roma vocat magnos , et numinacrcdit f Hie quod sit mundi Victor , et ille

      Ttt bellum ut paeem populis das , unui utprisque Major es ; Ipse orbcm vincis , et apse regis ; ISioit fconaiiKtn , & Codk ) missuiii Tc CIA * dim \ is ; units Sic potcras binos qti ^ upcrarc Peos !* ^ . _ ^ A ^^^_ a ^^ d ^ BA flk * ^ 1 ^ ^^

      J , JLocke , ex M < L <* CftrisUi ¦ t ' ' ' - ' ' ' '

      * * Of these lines , the English reader may accept the following translation , which aims only to give the sense of \ he ongfnaL , ; -: i

      Augustus in pacific glory sway'd . The world tnat Julius * conauering arms obey'd r One by his sword achieved a mighty name ; And one the meed acquir ed of civic fame . Applauding Rome proclaim ed fhe ^ L deities ^ Thb for wise rule , and that for victories

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/16/