FOOTNOTES:
[283] Lettres choisies, ii. p. 770.
[284] Reprinted in Locke's Works, x. pp. 161 ff.
[285] See our Influence politique de Locke, p. 346.
[286] Locke, Works, x. p. 162. The most amusing detail in this literary quarrel is that fifteen years before Desmaizeaux had actually offered Bernard, the editor of the Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, a paper vehemently criticizing Locke. But La Motte interfered, and the offer was declined. However, La Motte kept Desmaizeaux' letter and threatened to publish it. Add. MSS., 4281, fol. 144, and 4286, fol. 242.
[287] Mémoires pour l'histoire des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts (1707), ii. pp. 934-945.
[288] Letter dated 30th October 1708.
[289] Letter dated 7th January 1735.
[290] Clarke and Foxcroft, Life of Burnet, p. 429.
[291] Letter of 29th July 1743.
[292] The MSS. letters are preserved in the library of the Société pour l'histoire du Protestantisme Français.
[293] Married women, unless of noble birth, were styled before 1789 Mademoiselle.
[294] Written September 1697. In this, as in the following letters, the passages left out are merely of a complimentary nature.
[295] The touch of nature is wholly unexpected at this date.
[296] She was a contemporary writer of insipid pastorals.
[297] i.e. Locke and Mrs. Masham.
[298] Mrs. Blomer, then Rebecca Collier the quakeress.
[299] Mrs. Wharton.