Linen manufacture, the parlia-
ment's endeavour to retrieve
it,
436

the great advantage of
promoting it,
448
Locke, (Mr. John) his letters to
several of his friends, 289, &c.
writes to Mr. Molyneux
about the earthquake on Sep-
tember 8, 1692,

295
concerning some mistakes
in his remarks on the Essay,302
corrects some passages in
his Essay, about the possibi-
lity of matter's thinking, 303;
finds it difficult to reconcile
God's omniscience and man's
liberty, 305, and yet is sure
of both,
ibid.
his explication of genus
and species,
ibid.
his low opinion of the
common logic,
306
informs Mr. Molyneux of
his new account of freedom,
317, &c.

asserts the necessity of
children's diversion, 323,324;
desires Mr. Molyneux to use
his son hardily,
325

gives him a short account
of his chapter on what deter-
mines the will, 325, &c.
explains his judgment of
punishing a man for a fault
committed when drunk, 329;
approves Mr. Molyneux's di-
stinction between a drunken
and a frantic man
336
desires Mr. Molyneux to
supervise a Latin translation
of his Essay,356; signifies his
thoughts of adding something
in it about enthusiasm, ibid.

commends the often read-
ing of Tully, for gaining a
good Latin style, 359, 360;
instances a gentlewoman,
who taught her child Latin,
without knowing it herself
when she began,
360
relates to him the bad state
of our money,
367, 376

Locke sends him a paper con-
cerning the recoining it, 367

lord Capel's high esteem
of him and his writings, 369

prefers retirement for stu-
dy, before an honourable place
of 10007. per annum, 376

recommends the Gospel as
a sufficient treatise of mora-
lity,
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 La-
tin,
ibid.
his account of Dr. Sher-
lock'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
Clerc,
398
his ingenious remark on
Mr. Norris's representing the
lady Masham blind, 400
reflections in French on his
Essay,
409
his mean opinion of Mr.
Toland,
what benefit he expected
from the bishop of Worces-
ter's writing against him, 417;
his opinion of Mr. Leibnitz,
who made the French reflec-
tions on his Essay, ibid.
his shyness of Mr. Toland,
and the reasons of it, 425

415

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
difficulty of breathing, 445,
446
represents the unintelligi-
bleness of his adversary's
writings,
447
his grief for the death of
his dear friend, Mr. Moly-
neux,
458, 468

-

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 learn-
ed, 177; the defects of the
common logic, 177, 178
Lying, children should be care-
fully kept from it, and how,

126

;

nite before that of finite,
230, 231
Malebranche seems to affirm di-
rectly contrary to St. Paul, 232
groundlessly denies
that we smell, or feel things
in God, though we see them
in him,
233

M.

Malebranche, his opinion of see-
ing all things in God, con-
futed,
211
his argument from
the impenetrability of bodies,
answered,
215, &c.
his mistake about
seeing a cube and an object
vastly distant, 218; his mis-
take about the mind's pro-
ducing ideas,
ibid.
his strange notion
that ideas of material things
are spiritual things, 219
it is hard, according
to his notion, to prove a real
221
his saying, that ma-
terial things are in God after
a spiritual manner, unintel-
ligible,
222

sun,

225

the obscurity of his
saying, 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 unreasonable-
ness of his asserting, we can-
not desire to see any thing,
unless we, in part, see it
already,
226
heat length resolves
all into the pleasure of God,
228
his mistake in say-
ing we have the idea of infi-

the unsurmountable
difficulty which attends hist
opinion,
252
Manners, children should be
taught good ones, rather by
examples than rules, 50
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,
190
Minds, the general reason why
the soundest minds have usu-
ally the most sickly bodies,
461
Miracles, the definition of them,
and a discourse about them,

256
what proves extraordi-
nary operations to be real mi-
racles,
259
the only case wherein
real miracles may be expected,
262
the occasion of writing
the discourse on miracles, 265

Money, several authors men-
tioned who have written about
it,
366, 369, 370
the clipping of it almost
brought us to ruin, 376
a law made to prevent
clipped money from passing,
ibid.

Mr. Locke,

Morality, vide Ethics.
Molyneux, (Mr.) his letters to
290, &c.
desires Mr. Locke to
write a treatise of morality,291
writes to Mr. Locke, that
the earthquake of 1692 was
not felt at Dublin, 296
desires him to publish
a logic, upon the principles
of his Essay,

298
desires him to put mar-
ginal notes in the second
edition of his Essay, 309
earnestly solicits him to
publish a method of learning,

ibid.
his problem concerning
a man born blind,
311
desires him to write
against Malebranche's enthu-
siasm, 316, 353; and against
the notion of the world's eter-
nity,
316

his objection against de-
nying the craving of children,
319
his ingenious method of
teaching children to read, 320

doubts concerning Mr.
Locke's judgment of a man's
being punished for a fault com-
mitted, when drunk, 329
approves of Mr. Locke's
explication of this matter, 333

his opinion of the dif-
ference made by law, between
a drunken and frantic man, 334
highly approves Mr.
Locke's new explication of
man's liberty,

341
recommends Dr. St.
George Ashe to Mr. Locke,
345

approves Mr. Locke's

design of writing about en-
thusiasm,
353
Molyneux relates his child's great
progress in learning, by Mr.
Locke's method,
358
his problem answered
by Mr. Synge,

371
commends Mr. Burridge
to Mr. Locke, for a good
translator,
371, 374
his smart censure of Mr.
Edwards's writings, 380

- entreats Mr. Locke to let
him have his picture, 381

his remarks on Dr. Bent-
ley's sermons at Mr. Boyle's
lecture,
388
his account of spoiling
the linen manufacture in Ire-
land,
389
his favourable opinion of
Mr. Le Clerc,
392, 393
his judgment of the
bishop of Worcester's writing
against Mr. Locke, 394
his account of Dr. Sher-
lock's politic foresight, 401
relates the difficulty of
getting preferment for Mr. Le
Clerc,
402

ris,

his very high opinion of
Mr. Le Clerc,
ibid.
his opinion of Mr. Nor-
404
his free censure of Mr.
Toland's conduct,
421
his high character of sir
Richard Blackmore's poems,
423, 429
his complaint of using
violence in matters of religion,
428
relates Mr. Toland's
miserable condition in Ire-
land,
434
mentions his treatise,
entitled, The Case of Ireland's
being bound by Acts of Par-
liament, in England, stated,

455
dies, soon after his re-
turn from England, 458
left Mr. Locke a token

R.

Reading, how children should
be brought to it, 143, &c.
how it should be im-
proved, when learned, ibid.
&c.
Reasoning, should be familiarly
used with children,
69
Recreations, necessary for chil-
dren,
98, &c.
how to be ma-

naged,

ibid.
the advantage of
children's being allowed it
freely,
ibid.
Reputation, children should be
early inured to have a regard
to it,
41, &c.
Reverence towards parents, to
be early fixed in children, 91
Rewards, children should not be
encouraged by such as please
the senses, 38;-but chiefly
by those which concern their
reputation,
41, &c.
Rhetoric, how it may be best
learned by young men, 177,
&c.
Riding the great horse, how far
it may be useful,
Rules, should not be multiplied
to children,

192

45

305

Species, Mr. Locke's notion of
it explained,
Spirits (good ones) their nature
should be sought out, before
that of bodies, 182; the rea-
son of this, 183; the know-
ledge of them is best learned
from the Bible,
ibid.
Spirits, (or goblins) children.
should be carefully kept from
ill impressions concerning
them,
129
State, a 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, 16
Stool, going to it regularly, how
to be procured, 23, &c. Vid.
Costiveness.

Strait-laced, the ill effects of
children'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

T.

Task, what children learn,
should not be made such to
them,
61
Temper of children to be care-
fully observed in their educa-
tion,
92, &c.
Themes, why children should