...1690, after his return. It was written consequently, not in consecutive efforts, but, as he says, " by incoherent parcels, and after long intervals of neglect resumed again as my humor or occasions permitted, and at last in retirement where an attendance on my health gave me leisure,...

...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. This discontinued way of writing may have occasioned, besides others, two contrary faults...

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...incoherent parcels, and after long 1 Reply to Hie Bishop of Worcester. ESSAY ON THE HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. 1G1 intervals of neglect, resumed again, as my humour...me leisure, it was brought into that order thou now seest it." This simple picture of the origin of a great work is unfortunately not set by the author...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...