1956/01/01 by Peter Laslett · 25 citations
Social Sciences · #American Constitutional Law and Politics #Yesterday #Government (linguistics) #Convention #Law #History #Political science #Economic history #Philosophy #Linguistics
paper · doi:10.1017/s1474691300000329
published in Cambridge Historical Journal 12(1), 40-55 (Cambridge University Press)
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John Locke received the following letter from the Hague on 31 January 1689, whilst he was waiting in Rotterdam for a ship to take him home, now that his exile in Holland could come to an end after the Revolution: I have been very ill this fortnight. The beginning was what is called the disease of one's country, impatience to be there, but it ended yesterday with violence, as all great things do but kings. Ours went out like a farthing candle, and has given us by this Convention an occasion not only of mending the Government but of melting it down and making all new, which makes me wish you were there to give them a right scheme of government, having been infected by that great man Lord Shaftesbury.