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Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham

CHAPTER II
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French Huguenots and the Dutch drew naturally upon so happy a defender; and Barbeyrac, in the translation of Pufendorf which he published in 1706, cites no writer so often as Locke.

The speeches for the prosecution in the trial of Sacheverell were almost wholesale adaptations of his teaching; and even the accused counsel admitted the legality of James' deposition in his speech for the defence.
[Footnote 9: Locke, Works (ed.

of 1812), IX.

435.] More valuable testimony is not wanting.

In the _Spectator_, on six separate occasions, Addison speaks of him as one whose possession is a national glory.


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