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yet it was for the moll part fo much by the intervention of 

 words, that they feemed fcarce fcparatle from our general 

 knowledge." And again, " I am apt to imagine, that 

 were the imperfections of language, as the inftrument of 

 knowledge, more thoroughly weighed, a great many of tlie 

 controverfies that make fuch a noife in the world, would of 

 themfelves ceafe, and the way to knowledge, and perhaps 

 peace too, lie a great deal opener than it does." Hence the 

 author, jnft referred to, afTumes, " that the more Mr. 

 Locke refledledand fearched into the human underltanding, 

 the more he was convinced of the neceflity of an attention 

 to language, and «f the infeparable connexion between 

 words and knowledge. He fays, moreover, that it was a 

 lucky miftake which Mr. Locke made when he called his 

 book " An Effay on the Human Underftanding.'' For fome 

 part of the ineftimabie benefit of that book has, merely on 

 account of its title, reached to thoufands more than, I fear, 

 it would have done, had he called it (what it is merely) A 

 Grammatical EiTay, or a treatife on words, or on language. 

 The human mind, or the human underftanding, appears to be 

 a grand and noble theme, and all men, even the moft infuf- 

 ficient, conceive that to be a proper objeft for their contem- 

 plation, while enquiries into the nature of language are 

 fuppofed to be beneath the concern of their exalted under- 

 ftanding.'' We fliall now quote Dr. Enfield's opinion of this 

 great work. "Difcarding," fays he, " all fy Hematic theories, 

 he has, from actual experience and obftrvation, dehneatedthe 

 features, and defcribed the operations of the human mind, 

 with a degree of precifion and minutenefs not to be found 

 in Plato, Ariftotle, or Des Cartes. After clearing the way 

 b)" fetting afide the whole doftrine of innate notions, and 

 principles both fpeculative and practical, the author traces 

 all ideas to two fources, fenfation and refleftion ; treats at 

 large of the nature of ideas, fimple and complex ; of the 

 operation of the human underftanding in forming, diltin- 

 gniihing, compounding, andaffbciating them ; of the manner 

 in which words are app'ied as reprefentations of ideas ; of 

 the difficulties and obftruflions m tlie learch after truth, 

 which arife from the imperfection of thefefigns; and of the 

 nature, reality, kinds, degrees, cafual hindrances, and ne- 

 cefiary limits of human knowledge." Mr. Locke's " Two 

 Treatifes of Government," will render his memory dear to 

 the enlightened friends of civil and religious freedom : his 

 letters on toleration, and his commentaries on St. Paul s 

 epiftles, are likewife held ia high eftimation. 



Mr. Locke's private charafter cannot be wholly over- 

 looked : he poffefled a great knowledge of the world, and 

 was intimately converfant in the bufinefs of it. He was 

 prudent without cunning, and he engaged men's efteem by 

 his probity. Averfe from all mean compliances, his wifdom, 

 his experience, and his gentle manners, gained him the re- 

 fpect of his inferiors, the efteem of his equals, the friend- 

 ffiip and confidence of thofe of higher quality. He was re- 

 markable for the eafe and politencfs of his behaviour ; and 

 thofe who only knew him by his writings, and who had 

 tonceived him to be a referved man, were fiirprifed, if they 

 happened to be introduced to him, to find him extremely 

 affable, good-humoured, and complaifant. Dr. Ifaac Watts 

 defcribcs him as having a foul wide as the fea ; calm as night, 

 brif^ht as day. And the fame author has a fine ode in his 

 iyric poems, written on occafion of Mr. Locke's dangerous 

 illnefs, fome time after he had retired to ftud'y the fcviptures, 

 »f wiaich we (hall quote the firft ftanza. 



" And muft the man of wondrous mind. 

 Now his rich thoughts are juft refin'd, 

 Forfake our longing eyes ? 



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Reafon at length fubmits to wear 

 The wings of faith ; and lo 1 they rear 

 Her chariot high, and nobly bear 

 Her prophet to the /Icies." 



Among the honours paid to thememory of Mr. Locke, that 

 of queer. Caroline, coniort of George IL ought not to be 

 overlooked, for that princefs, having erefted a pavilion in Rich- 

 mond park, devoted to, or in honour of, philofophy, placed 

 in it Mr. Locke's buft, with thofe of Bacon, Newton, and 

 Clarke, as the four chief of the Euglifti phiiofophers. He left 

 behind him feveral MSS., from which his executors, fir Peter 

 King and Anthony Collins, cfq. publilhed, in 1705, his 

 paraphrafe and notes upon St. Paul's epiftle to the Galatians, 

 which were foon followed by thofe upon the Corinthians, 

 Romans, and Ephefians, with an efl'ay prefixed, " For the 

 underftanding of St. Paul's epiftles, by confulting St. Paul 

 himfelf" In the following year the pofthumous works 

 of Mr. Locke were publiftied, comprifing a treatife " On 

 the Cond'ift of the Underftanding," intended as a fupplement 

 to the " Efl'ay:" " An Examination of Malebranche's Opi- 

 nion of feeing all Things in God." In 1 70S, fome fami- 

 liar letters between Mr. Locke and feveral of his friends 

 were publiflied. All the works of this great man have been- 

 collected, and frequently reprinted in different fizes ; in 

 three vols, folio, in four volumes quarto, and lately in ten 

 volumes Svo. Biog. Brit, Life prefixed to Mr. Locke's 

 woVks. Enfield's Hift. of Phil. 



Locke, in Geography, a town of Pruffia, in Ermeland ; 

 1 1 miles from Heilft^erg. ^ 



Locke, a military town of America, in Milton townftiip,. 

 New York, in Onondago county; 13 miles N.E. of the S. 

 end of Cayuga lake. 



LOCKENITZ, a town and caftle of Brandenburg, in 

 the Ucker Mark ; 16 miles N.E, of Prentzlow. 



LOCKER, in a S/jip, a kind of box or chell made aloncr 

 the fide of a fhip, to put or ftow any thing in. 



LocKEK, Gowlans. See Hellebore, and Trollius. 



Locker. Shot, in Sea Language. See Gakl.-ixd. 



LOCKERBIE, in Geography, a market town fituated in 

 the pmiih ot Dryfdale, Dumfriesftiire, Scotland. It is 

 pleafantly leared on the river Annan, at the diftance of it. 

 miles from the county town. It confifts chie.ly of one re- 

 gular ftreet, halt a mile in length from north to fouth, and 

 this is interfe^led, at right angles, by another itreet of infe- 

 rior extent. According to the parliamentary returns of 1801, 

 the whole parifh contained 322 houfes and 1607 inhabit- 

 ants. The buildings in the town are chiefly of recent date- 

 The parifti church ftands on an eminence at the head of the 

 principal ftreet. Two lakes forriierly almoll encircled the- 

 town. It has two fairs and ten markets during the year, at 

 which upwards of 20,oco lambs are annually fold ; the 

 greater part of which are principally fent into England. 

 A confiderable quantity of linen and woollen cloths are 

 likewife purchafed for the fame part of the kingdom. 



LOC Keren, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Scheldt , and chief place of a canton, in tVie diftrift of 

 Termoude. The place contains v\,ci,^\, and the canton 

 15,693 inhabitants, on a territory of 70 kiliometreSj in 

 three communes. 



LOC KH ART, a town of North Carolina, in AlberaErlo 

 Sound; 3S miles E.S.E. of Hahfax. N. lat. 36^ 2'. W. 

 long. 76 56'. 



LOCKIjorLAKi, as the Same orthography ma v he almoib 

 indifTerentl/ pronounced, is a name of Lakflimi, the confort. 

 of the Hindoo deity 'Vifhnu. See L.-\.KSH.Mr. 



LOCKING-up, or LocKiNG-d'owri, denotes the opera» 

 tion of gaffing boats up or down through locks. 



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