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    and send it addressed a Monsieur Toinard & , Orleans * ' I rejoice that our friend Veen * is returned with recovered health to the

    city and to his practice . A man occupied from youth to age in the exercise of his profession , must , I think , languish under the weariness of continual leisure . Pray make my most respectful remembrance to him and

    to Guennelon , their wives and their whole families . May peace , concord and friendship be ever among them * I wish all happiness for them and for you and yours . Pray give my respects

    to your excellent wife and children , whose health and safety God long preserve * Farewell , most amiable friend , and believe me , Yours , most affectionately , J- LOCKE .

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    No . % b . John Locke to Philip it lAtriborch . Oates , Oct . 26 , 1694 . Most respected Friend , THOUGH I cannot possibly

    excuse my long silence , yet I can scarcely believe that I have been so very negligent as to have suffered nine whole months to pass without writing to you . I freely confess I have too long maintained silence , but as it proceeded neither from the least weariness of

    your correspondence , nor from any diminution of my regard , I hope you will readily excuse it . To say the truth , I wa £ ashamed to write to you again before I had read through your work , so that I might be able to offer

    you rny judgment upon it , or rather my congratulation . I am unable to express what pleasure and information I have derived from your accurate History of the Inquisition , It is written just as history should be ; where it is not embellished and set off with

    those ornaments which gratify and allure , and by which incautious readers are easily deluded ; but every thing is established and supported by authorities and documents , so that even

    * Whose name has often occurred in these letters . Dr . Eg-bert Veen was a physician at Amsterdam , at whose house Orobjo was first introduced to Limborcb , in presence of Le Clerc . See his funeral oration for Limborcb * translated from the Latin itt Hughes ^ Mtictl . 1737 , p . 221 .

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    those who are greatly interested | o refute the work , dare not make the attempt . You have dragged into open day from their hiding places such works of darkness and secret deeds of

    detestable cruelty , that if there remain among those of the Church , or rather among the Satellites of Antichrist , any traces of humanity , they wilJ be at length ashamed of that horrid and execrable tribunal , where every principle of right , truth and justice are set at nought . If , however , these

    disgraceful facts , which cannot be denied , should fail to move them , among the Reformed , who have escaped that cruel prison-house , they may at least strengthen the resolution to oppose such inhuman tyranny , if it should endeavour its re-establishrnent on any pretence , either of religion or of civil order . Such is often the strife of

    disputants , such the subtilty and the extended chain of arguments , that every one cannot free himself from the perplexities of a jangling sophistry , and judge fully of the controversy , But . if even an unlearned plebeian shall read your History , he will

    presently conclude , that religion , justice and charity are wanting , where such inhuman cruelties are perpetrated , in violation of every principle of equity , and every rule of right acknowledged among mankind , and so diametrically opposite to the genius of the gospel . I indeed value your work , especially ,

    because you have arranged every thing in so distinct and exact a method , and silenced objections by such abundant proofs , that into whatever vernacular language it may be translated , nothing- will seem wanting to inform the common people , instruct even the learned , and establish every one .

    If you happen , as . you mention , to meet with any thing connected with the argument of your book , which did not occur before the publication , pray send it at your leisure , if not too

    much trouble . My design is to insert all such additions at their proper places in the margin of my copy . 1 lately added the followiug passage , from Travels into the East , at p . 976 of your work .

    " The Holy Office , that dreadful tribunal , renowned for its cruelty and injustice , reigns here [ at Malta ] more tyrannically than even at Rome , and I have heard a hundred shocking ac-

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    The Correspondence between Locke and Limlorch t translated . 477

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 477, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/5/