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
ibid.

and species,
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

Essay,

his mean opinion of Mr.
Toland,

415
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

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-
458, 468

neux,

252

the unsurmountable
difficulty which attends his
opinion,
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

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
311

a man born blind,

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

turn from England,

approves Mr. Locke's

458

left Mr. Locke a token

children's being allowed it

ibid.

freely,
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,
192
Rules, should not be multiplied
to children,

45

P.

S.

Parents should early settle au-
thority over children, 33, 34

should make their chil-
dren familiar with them as
they grow up,
88, &c.
Physic, never to be given to
children by way of preven-
tion,
25, 26
Playthings, children should not
have many at once, 124, 125
should make them

for themselves,
125
Punishment, to be avoided, as
far as possible, in educating
children,
35, &c.
less need of it than
is commonly thought, 60

Sauntering, or (listless careless-
ness) how to be prevented,
119, &c.
Self-denial, children should be
inured to it betimes,
36
Sergeant, a popist priest, his

absurd 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 use-
ful,
151
Sleep, how it is to be indulged
or restrained, in children,
20, &c.