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Show The Epijlle ':p.edicatory. yet more weight and relifh to all the rell : You vouchfafe to continue me in fome degrees of your E:llecm, and allow me a place in your good Thoughts, l had almo:ll faid Frie~dlhip; This, my Lord, yout Words and Achons f() conllantly ihew on all occafions, even to others when I am abfent, that it is not Vanity in me to mention, what every body knows : But it would be want of Manners not to acknowledge what fo many ~re Witneffes of, · and every day tdi me, I am indebted· to your Lordlhip for. I wiG1 they could as eafily affi:llmy Gratitude, as they convince me of the gre:lt a~d growi?g En. gagements it has to your Lordlhtp. . Tht~ I am fure,I ihould Write of the V~~ndmg Without having a1_1y, if I we~e not -ccttmnr fenfible of them, and did not la.y hold on thts Opportunity to teilifie to the World, how much I am obliged to be, and how much I am, Mj Lord, Tour L~rdjhips •) .'Mofl Brmtblt, a11d .'Moft Obrdient Ser-vant; JOHN LOCKE: THf. TO THE READER. Reader, I He~e put into thy Hands, 'llil!at .'!as beeti the diverfion of Jotlie of my 1dle and hea11y Hours : If 1t l>as the good luck. to prow fo of any of th!ne , ~~d tjxJU haft b~t half. fo mud, 'l'leafi4re in riading, ds I bad tn wnt11~ 1t, t/>ou w1lt as ltttle tbmk. thj Money, as I do !try 'Pains ill beftoTIIed. 'A!iftak.e not this, for a Commmdariiltl of my Work ; nor.conrlude, beca11{t IT/las pleafid with tl!e doing Of it, that therefore I am fondly taketi JtJith it noT/1 it is done; He that bari>k.s at Larks and Sparrou;s, l>as 110 le{s Spott; thougl> a m1tcb left confiderable f4.1arry, than he that flies at nobler game: And• be is 'little .acqt~t~inttd 'll>ith the SubjeB of this Treatije, the UNDER S 'r. 'AN r> IN G· iPho does not kttow, that as it is the moft e/e)lated .Fawlty of ·iW'Sout' .fo it is emplojed wit/; o1 greater, and 111ore conftant 'Delight thmt ~ity of the other. Its feartbes after Truth, are a fort of Hd"flik.lng a ,J Hun• ting, 'wherein the 'Very pur{uit makes a great p~rt· of the 'l'ledjure\ Ewry ftep the .!Mittd takes in its Progrefs to11>ards J01o111ledge~ 1 make~ oj - w 'Di[co11ery, 11>bitli is 11()1 only tJeu;, but !be beft too, ·for t/Je timedt.leaft• !'or tbe Underflanding, like tbe. Eye, _judging of Obje8s, onlt by 1ts o'Jl>n S~iht, cannot h11t be pleafed 11>1th 1vhat 1t difcowr~) ~·htt"Ving kfs regret for what has Jcaped it, becauje it is Utlkno11>11. ' Tlms he "i!ho has rai{ed bimjelf, abo11e the Alms-'Ba,ket , and- IJOI' c~niml ro li've la:<;jly 011 fcraps of begg'd Opinioni, jets bi) O"'IJil nM_tl;t; on 110rk. , to find ami follow Trutb, "'ill ('fl>hate)ler 'be lig;l>ts onJ not Mifs the Htmter·s SatisjaEiiM ; ewry moment of his 'l'urfuit;l 1vill rttvard his P.tins with fomc 'Delight; and he 1vil//,.tl!~ 7J?..!afan to tMill~ l1is tiv1e llq{ it/fjm1t,e11ctJ whtn he cannot nlucb boafl of mtygrtat Acq<fijition. This, !J(eader, is tht · Entertainment of thofe, 11>bo let Iooft their ~1111 ·noughts, a'nd (ollo'fl> t!Jem in Jvritin_g ; 'fl>l.lic/, t!JOtt Qtlj,l>teft not |
