A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ... By Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine

A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ... By Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine: "times Locke was probably caught by his splendid qualities his courage his openness his party zeal his eloquence his fair dealing with his friends aivd his superiority to vulgar corruption Locke's partiality might make him on the other hand blind to the indifference with which he Shaftesbury espoused either monarchical arbitrary or republican principles as best suited his ambition but could it make him blind to tlie relentless cruelty with which he persecuted the papists in the affair of the popish plot merely as it should seem because it suited the purposes of the party with which he was then engaged You know that some of the imputations against him are certainly false the shutting up the Exchequer for instance But the two great blots of sitting on the Regicides and his conduct m the popish plot can never be wiped off The second Dutch war is a bad business in which he engaged heartily and in which notwithstanding all his apologists say he would have persevered if he had Dot found the was him "