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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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Modern Classical Philosophers: Selections Illustrating Modern Philosophy ...

1908 - 768 pages
...first entrance into this discourse, which, having been thus begun by chance, was continued by intreaty; written by incoherent parcels ; and, after long intervals...in a retirement, where an attendance on my health gare me leisure, it was brought into that order thou now seest it." with our own understandings, will...
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The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

John Grier Hibben - 1910 - 334 pages
...next meeting, gave the first entrance in this discourse; which, having been thus begun by chance, was continued by entreaty; written by incoherent parcels;...occasions permitted; and at last, in a retirement (in Holland) where an attendance on my health gave me leisure, it was brought into that order thou...
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1639-1729

Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...next meeting, gave the first entrance into this discourse ; which, having been begun by chance, was continued by entreaty ; written by incoherent parcels, and after long intervals of neglect, returned again as my humour or occasions permitted ; and at last, in a retirement, where an attendance...
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Journal of the Outdoor Life, Volume 21

1924 - 626 pages
...very sacrifice that he wrought great and permanent labor. In his Epistle to the Reader he tells how "in a retirement, where an attendance on my health gave me leisure, it (the book) was brought into that order thou now seest it." And living thus, he reached the age of seventy-two....
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Selections

John Locke - 1928 - 436 pages
...first entrance into this discourse; which having been thus begun by chance, was continued by intreaty; written by incoherent parcels; and after long intervals...me leisure, it was brought into that order thou now seest it. This discontinued way of writing may have occasioned, besides others, two contrary faults,...
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Selections

John Locke - 1928 - 428 pages
...origin, nature, and limits of knowledge. Thus, as he himself tells us, the work was "begun by chance, continued by entreaty, written by incoherent parcels,...and after long intervals of neglect resumed again as humour or occasions permitted." The year following his return from exile to England the work appeared....
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Revolutionary Politics and Locke's Two Treatises of Government

Richard Ashcraft - 1986 - 644 pages
...next meeting gave the first entrance into the 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 of my health gave me...
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Locke's Philosophy: Content and Context

Graham Alan John Rogers - 1996 - 276 pages
...continued by Intreaty; written by incoherent parcels, and after long intervals of neglect . . . [until] at last, in a retirement, where an Attendance on my...leisure, it was brought into that order, thou now seest it'." There are three early drafts of the Essay extant, Drafts A and B of t67t, and Draft C of...
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The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century ...

G. A. Russell - 1994 - 346 pages
...our next meeting gave the first entrance into the discourse; which having been begun by chance was continued by entreaty, written by incoherent parcels,...after long intervals of neglect, resumed again as humour and occasion permitted.90 Locke's recollection blurred by the lapse of some eighteen years (The...
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Early Modern Liberalism

Annabel Patterson - 1997 - 344 pages
...unwise to put too much weight on them. incoherent parcels, and, after long intervals of neglect, resum'd again, as my Humour or Occasions permitted; and at...leisure, it was brought into that order, thou now seest it. 3 Rhetorically, almost everything about these statements misleads as much as it assists:...
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