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" Being of opinion that you endeavoured to embroil me with women, and by other means, I was so much affected with it, as that when one told me you were sickly and would not live, I answered, 'twere better if you were dead. "
The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India ... - Page 179
1831
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The Life of John Locke: With Extracts from His Correspondence, Journals, and ...

Lord Peter King King - 1829 - 426 pages
...adds, " I know nothing from Locke's pen which does more honour to his temper and character." " SIR, " BEING of opinion that you endeavoured to embroil me...so much affected with it, as that when one told me you were sickly arid would not live, I answered, 'twere better if you were dead. I desire you to forgive...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1829 - 682 pages
...know nothing from Locke's pen, which does more honour to his temper and character." ' Sir,—Being of opinion that you endeavoured to embroil me with...so much affected with it, as that, when one told me you were sickly, and would not live, I answered 'twere better if you were dead. I desire you to forgive...
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The Life of Sir Isaac Newton

David Brewster - 1831 - 328 pages
...his letter to Mr. Pepys, and consequently during the illness under which he then laboured. " SIR, " Being of opinion that you endeavoured to embroil me...so much affected with it, as that when one told me you were sickly and would not live, I answered, 'twere better if you were dead. I desire you to forgive...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 7; Volume 12

1832 - 424 pages
...some injuries, probably imaginary, and to which Locke returned a generous and manly reply. '"SIR, ' " Being of opinion that you endeavoured to embroil me...so much affected with it, as that when one told me you were sickly and would not live, I answered, 'twere better if you were dead. I desire you to forgive...
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The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Volume 7

1832 - 700 pages
...1693, nevertheless, we find Newton writing the following extraordinary letter to Mr Locke : — " Sir, Being of opinion that you endeavoured to embroil me...so much affected with it, as that when one told me you were sickly, and would not live, I answered, 'twere better if you were dead. I desire you to forgive...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 7; Volume 12

1833 - 564 pages
...letters to Locke, the first of which was written only three days after bis letter to Pepys. " Sir, — Being of opinion that you endeavoured to embroil me...so much affected with it, as that when one told me you were sickly and would not live, I answered, 'twere better if you were dead. I desire you to forgive...
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The Tourist: A Literary and Anti-slavery Journal, Volume 1

1833 - 370 pages
...repented of these rash statements, when he addressed the following remarkable letter to Locke : " Sir : Being of opinion that you endeavoured to embroil me...so much affected with it, as that when one told me you were sickly and would not live, I answered, 'twere better if you were dead. I desire you to forgive...
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Essays

Samuel Ward - 1834 - 84 pages
...the whole of which Lord King has now just given to the world. " SIR, — Being of opinion that yon endeavoured to embroil me with women and by other...so much affected with it, as that when one told me you were sickly and would not live, I answered, 'twere better if you were dead. I desire you to forgive...
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The Christian Examiner and General Review, Volume 12

Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1832 - 420 pages
...some injuries, probably imaginary, and to which Locke returned a generous and manly reply. "'SiR, ' " Being of opinion that you endeavoured to embroil me...so much affected with it, as that when one told me you were sickly and would not live, I answered, 'twere better if you were dead. I desire you to forgive...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 172

1842 - 740 pages
...following letter from Newton to John iMcke, of date September 16, 1693. " SIB, — Being of opinion yon endeavoured to embroil me with women, and by other means, I was so much affected with it, that when one told me you were sickly and would not live, I answered 'twere better you were dead. I...
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