Note 2 — A DISPLAY of the INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES OF THE VARIOUS PEOPLE, With REMARKS on the TALENTS of the DIFFERENT ONES.
John Brett translation
This is the same John Locke, of whose writings, as also of those of Rapin, Sidney, and Bishop Hoadly, the late David Hume, in his History of Great Britain, gives the following description: “Compositions of the most despicable kind both for style and matter, which have been extolled, and propagated, and read; as if they had equalled the most celebrated remains of antiquity.”
Vid. vol. viii. pag. 323, of the last edition of Hume’s History of Great Britain, published in 1778.