 | English literature - 1817 - 590 pages
...battle only, or tlic act of fighting, but is a tract of time wherein the will to contend by hattle is sufficiently known; and therefore the notion of...is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of ^cod weather lyeth not in a shower or two of rain, but in ail inclination thereto of rmruy days together,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1832 - 438 pages
...in the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For * as the nature of good weather lyeth not in a shower or two of rain, * but in an inclination thereto of many days together, so the natare of war consisteth not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition * thereto, during all... | |
 | Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1832 - 452 pages
...contend by battle * is sufficiently known ; and therefore the notion of time is to be con* sidered in the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For * as the nature of good weather lyeth not in a shower or two of rain, * but in an inclination thereto of many days together,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1832 - 442 pages
...not in battle only, or the act of * fighting, but is a tract of time wherein the will to conteud by battle ' is sufficiently known ; and therefore the notion of time is to be con' sidered in the nature of war, as it ig in the nature of weather. For * as the nature of good weather... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...lighting ; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known : °ne and therefore the notion of time, is to be considered...thereto of many days together : so the nature of war, consisteth not in actual fighting ; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...fighting ; but in a tract of time, wherein $ the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known : oaeand therefore the notion of time, is to be considered...thereto of many days together : so the nature of war, consisteth not in actual fighting ; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1839 - 744 pages
...; but in a tract of time; wherein ev"^ the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known : oneand therefore the notion of time, is to be considered...thereto of many days together : so the nature of war, consisteth not in actual fighting ; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1841 - 412 pages
...not in battle only, or the act of fighting ; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known ; and therefore the notion...inclination thereto of many days together ; so the nature of man consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...not in battle only, or the act of fighting, but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known ; and therefore the notion...thereto of many days together ; so the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...not in battle only, or the act of fighting, but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known ; and therefore the notion...thereto of many days together ; so the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there... | |
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... is to be considered in the nature of war as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower or two of rain, but in an inclination thereto of many days together ; so the nature of war consisteth not in actual... 
