 | 1921 - 710 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 of neglect, resumed again, as my ' Locke, Essay; Introduction. (533) humour or occasions permitted ; and at last, in a retirement, where... | |
 | 1924 - 876 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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... 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... 
