The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 487, April 30, 1831

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 487, April 30, 1831At the village of...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 487, April 30, 1831

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 487, April 30, 1831

€6,34

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 487, April 30, 1831

€6,34
Author: Various
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 487, April 30, 1831

At the village of Wrington, in Somersetshire, in a cottage by the churchyard, was born JOHN LOCKE. What a simple, unostentatious record is this of him whom the biographers call one of the most eminent philosophers and valuable writers of his age and country. Yet the cottage is not preserved with any special care;there is nothing about it to denote that within its walls the man of whom every Englishman is proudfirst drew breath. The house is now divided into tenements; and, fortuitously, one of its rooms is used as a school for young children. It is grateful to know this, even were it only for associating the appropriation of this apartment with the master-mind of Locke, as developed in his Thoughts on Education, and his perspicuous Essay on the Human Understanding. Locke was born August 29, 1632: his father, Mr. J. Locke, who was descended from the Lockes of Charton Court, in Dorsetshire, possessed a moderate landed property at Pensfold and Belluton, where he lived. He was a captain in the Parliamentary army during the civil wars, and his fortune suffered so considerably in those times, that he left a smaller estate to his son than he himself had inherited. It is not our intention to follow the biographers of Locke further than by quoting from the last published Life of the Philosopher1 a brief example of his filial affection: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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