LAMBERT (Major-general), his
attempt to seize sir Anthony-
Ashley Cooper disappointed, 276.
Languages, better learned by use,
than by a multitude of rules,
152, &c.
Latin tongue, much time ill-spent
in learning it,
ibid.
how it may be easily at-
tained,
152, &c..
Law (of one's country), how young
177
men should learn it,
Learning, more ado than should be
is made about it, in educating
children,
142, &c.
should be made a sport.
to children, from the first, 143
how it may be made a
by rote, children should
not be too much put to it, 168,
Le Clerc, vid. Locke, Molyneux.
Letters (or epistles), what care
should be taken to instruct youth
how to write them, 180, &c.
the great advantage of pro-
moting it,
Locke (Mr. John), his letters to se-
veral of his friends, 289, &c.
writes to Mr. Molyneux about
the earthquake on September 8,
1692,
295
concerning some mistakes in
his remarks on the essay, 302
corrects some passages in his
essay, about the possibility of
matter's thinking, 303. finds it
difficult to reconcile God's om-
niscience and man's liberty, 305,
and yet is sure of both, ibid.
his explication of genus and
species,
ibid.
his low opinion of the com-
mon logic,
306
informs Mr. Molyneux of his
new account of freedom, 317,
&c.
lord Capel's high esteem of
him and his writings,
prefers retirement for study,
before an honourable place of
10001. per annum,
376
recommends the gospel, as a
sufficient treatise of morality,
377
reflects on Mr. Synge's answer
to Mr. Molyneux's problem, 378
his contempt of the present
world, 383. his advice about
translating his essay into Latin,
ibid.
his account of Dr. Sherlock's.
temper, the Dean of St. Paul's,
396, 401
- his judgment of Mr. Whis-
ton's theory of the earth, 397
his high esteem of Mr. Le
398
his ingenious remark on Mr.
Norris's representing the lady
Masham blind,
400
reflections in French on his
409
essay,
his mean opinion of Mr. To-
415
-what benefit he expected from
the bishop of Worcester's writ-
ing against him, 417. his opinion
of Mr. Leibnitz, who made the
French reflections on his essay,
his shyness of Mr. Toland,
and the reasons of it,
425
-his good opinion of sir Richard
Blackmore,
426, 432
an Irish bishop's letter against
his notion of certainty, 439
- a distinct account of his dif-
ficulty of breathing, 445, 446
represents the unintelligible-
ness of his adversary's writings,
447
his grief for the death of his
dear friend Mr. Molyneux, 458,
Locke, his judgment of the usual
mistakes of physicians, 464
his letter of condolence to
Dr. Molyneux, brother to his
deceased friend,
468
Logic, how it may be best learned,
177.-the defects of the common
logic,
177, 178
Lying, children should be carefully
kept from it, and how, 126
MALEBRANCHE, his opinion of
seeing all things in God, con-
futed,
his argument from the
impenetrability of bodies, an-
swered,
215, &c.
his mistake about seeing
a cube and an object vastly dis-
tant, 218.-his mistake about the
mind's producing ideas, ibid.
his strange notion that
ideas of material things are spi-
ritual things,
219
it is hard, according to
his notion, to prove a real sun,
221
his saying, that material
things are in God after a spiritual
manner, unintelligible, 222
the obscurity of his say
ing, that God is the place of
spirits,
222, 223
his notion that we think
upon all things, before we think
on any particular thing, not true,
the unreasonableness of
his asserting, we cannot desire to
see any thing, unless we, in part,
see it already,
226
he at length resolves all
into the pleasure of God, 228
his mistake in saying we
have the idea of infinite before
that of finite,
230, 231
seems to affirm directly
contrary to St. Paul, 232
groundlessly denies that
we smell, or feel, things in God,
though we see them in him, 233
- his four ways of know-
ing things, confuted, ibid.
his notion of universal
reason, in what sense true, 250
the unsurmountable dif-
ficulty which attends his opi
nion,
Manners, children should be taught
good ones, rather by examples
than rules,
Matter, Mr. Locke's notion of it
explained,
303, 304
Meals, of children, should not be
constantly kept to a certain hour,
17
Merchants accompts, gentlemen
should be skilled therein, 199
Method, a good one necessary in
all learning,
Minds, the general reason why the
soundest minds have usually the
most sickly bodies,
461
Miracles, the definition of them,
and a discourse about them,
--what proves extraordinary
operations to be real miracles,
259
the only case wherein real
miracles may be expected, 262
the occasion of writing the
discourse on miracles, 265
Money, several authors mentioned,
who have written about it, 366,
369, 370
-the clipping of it, almost
brought us to ruin,
376
a law made to prevent clip-
ped money from passing, ibid.
Morality, vide Ethics.
Molyneux, (Mr.) his letters to
Mr. Locke,
290, &e.
desires Mr. Locke to write
a treatise of morality, 201
his great value for Mr.
Locke's book of education, 466.
his Letter to Mr. Locke,
concerning his great loss, by the
death of his brother,
Music, much time should not be
ordinarily spent in it,
intreats Mr. Locke, to let NATURAL philosophy, not ad-
his remarks on Dr. Bentley's
sermons at Mr.Boyle's lecture,388 :
vanced into a science, 185, &c.
how a good acquaintance
with it may be best attained, ibid.,
SAUNTERING (or listless care-
lessness), how to be prevented,
119, &c.
Self-denial, children should be
enured to it betimes,
36
Sergeant, a popish priest, his ab-
surd way of writing against Mr.
Locke's essay,
439
Shame, children should early be
taught to be affected with it, 43
Short-hand (writing) very useful,
Sleep, how it is to be indulged or
restrained, in children, 20, &c.
Species, Mr. Locke's notion of it
. explained,
Spirits (good ones), their nature
should be sought out, before that
of bodies, 182.-The reason of
this, 183.-The knowledge of
them is best learned from the
bible,
ibid.
Spirits (or goblins), children should
be carefully kept from ill im-
pressions concerning them, 129
State, an happy one, in this world,
is having a sound mind in a sound
body,
6
Stomach, of some, by constant use,
set like a larum,
Stool, going to it regularly, how to
be procured, 23, &c. Vid. Cos-
tiveness.
Strait-laced, the ill effects of child-
ren's being so,
13
Synge (Mr. Edward), author of the
gentleman's religion, 370
his letter to Dr. Quayl, about
distinguishing a cube, &c. by
one born blind,
371
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