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" ... written by incoherent parcels ; and, after long intervals of neglect, resumed again, as my humour or occasions permitted ; and "at last, in a retirement, where an attendance on my health gave me leisure, it was brought into that order thou now seest... "
The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany - Page 303
1821
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Some Thoughts Concerning Education

John Locke - 1880 - 386 pages
...the first entrance into this discourse; which having thus begun by chance, was continued by intreaty, written by incoherent parcels, and after long intervals...gave me leisure, it was brought into that order thou seest it.' While an inmate of Lord Ashley's house, Locke presided over the studies of his son and of...
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Locke's Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - 1881 - 182 pages
...meeting, gave the first entrance into this discourse, which, having been thus begun by chance, was continued by entreaty ; written by incoherent parcels...me leisure, it was brought into that order thou now seest it.' The Copy of the First Edition of the Essay which belonged to Sir James Tyrrell, one of Locke's...
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A Manual of English Literature: Historical and Critical : with an Appendix ...

Thomas Arnold - 1885 - 670 pages
...entrance into this discourse ; which, having -been thus begun by chance, was continued by intreaty ; written by incoherent parcels ; and, after long intervals...again, as my humour or occasions permitted ; and at kst, in a retirement where an attendance 1 Absalom and Achitiifthel, part I. on my health gave me leisure,...
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Locke

Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1890 - 330 pages
...continued by entreaty, written by incoherent parcels, and, alter long intervals of neglect, returned again as my humour or occasions permitted ; and at...me leisure, it was brought into that order thou now seest it." Locke himself does not tell what the " subject " was — " very remote " from an investigation...
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An Outline of Locke's Ethical Philosophy ...

Mattoon Monroe Curtis - 1890 - 168 pages
...second books of his Essay. Locke also calls attention to the fact that the Essay, "begun by chance, was continued by entreaty; written by incoherent parcels;...after long intervals of neglect, resumed again, as humor or occasions permitted". (Epistle to the Reader.) This will explain much of the confusion, both...
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Americanized Encyclopaedia Britannica: Revised and Amended : a ..., Volume 7

1890 - 738 pages
...he set to work, might be contained on "one sheet of paper." But what was thus " begun by chance was continued by entreaty, written by incoherent parcels,...and after long intervals of neglect resumed again as humor and occasions permitted," till, at last, at the end of nearly twenty years, it was given to the...
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The Philosophy of Locke: In Extracts from The Essay Concerning Human ...

John Locke - 1891 - 176 pages
...meeting, gave the first entrance into this discourse, which, having been thus begun by chance, was continued by entreaty ; written by incoherent parcels...after long intervals of neglect, resumed again, as my humor or occasions permitted ; and at last, in a retirement, where an attendance on 29 my health gave...
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The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures

Josiah Royce - 1892 - 550 pages
...; written by incoherent parcels ; and, after long intervals of neglect, resumed again, as my humor or occasions permitted, and at last, in a retirement,...me leisure, it was brought into that order thou now seest it." In this modest way Locke introduces a book whose > historical value lies precisely in this...
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The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures

Josiah Royce - 1892 - 570 pages
...meeting, gave the first entrance into this discourse ; which, having been thus begun by chance, was continued by entreaty; written by incoherent parcels...after long intervals of neglect, resumed again, as my humor or occasions permitted, and at last, in a retirement, where an attendance on my health gave me...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - 1894 - 692 pages
...meeting, gave the first entrance into this Discourse; which, having been thus begun by chance, was continued by entreaty ; written by incoherent parcels...intervals of neglect, resumed again, as my humour and occasions permitted ; and at last, in a retirement, where an attendance on my health gave me leisure,...
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