 So that in the first place I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.  Rousseau and Romanticism - Page 192by Irving Babbitt - 1919 - 426 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas O'Brien MacMahon - 1774 - 220 pages
...according to Tacitus " the moft vehement and flaming" Tacit. lib. 15-. Hobbes fays, " In the firft place I put for a " general inclination of ALL MANKIND, a " perpetual and rcftlefs defire of po-wer after " -bower that ccafeth only in death." Leviathan chap. xi. An anonymous... | |
 | Great Britain - 1870 - 494 pages
...from one object to another ; the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter." " So that, in the first place, I put for a general inclination...of power after power that ceaseth only in death." (12) Of religion. ' ' Seeing there are no signs, nor fruit of religion, but in man only, there is no... | |
 | George Croom Robertson - 1886 - 264 pages
...action in relation with one another. In all men alike he recognises one overmastering purpose — " a perpetual and restless desire of power after power that ceaseth only in death." This assumes, as between man and man, a variety of forms that may best be noted at the farther stage... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...difference of the knowledge or opinion each one has of the causes which produce the effect desired. So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination...of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Literature - 1892 - 440 pages
...in relation to this matter that he is led into what is usually considered as his greatest paradox. ' In the first place I put for a general inclination...of power after power that ceaseth only in death.' In order to understand this, it is necessary to understand what Hobbes meant by power, for he uses... | |
 | Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - Ethics - 1897 - 476 pages
...difference of the knowledge or opinion each one has of the causes which produce the effect desired. So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination...of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Ethics - 1898 - 408 pages
...difference of the knowledge, or opinion each one has of the causes, which produce the effect desired. So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination...of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And the cause of this, is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already... | |
 | John Henry Muirhead - Ethics - 1900 - 352 pages
...enjoy once only, and for one instant of time, but to assure for ever the way of his future desire. ... So that in the first place I put for a general inclination...desire of power after power that ceaseth only in death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already... | |
 | John Henry Muirhead - Ethics - 1900 - 344 pages
...enjoy once only, and for one instant of time, but to assure for ever the way of his future desire. ... So that in the first place I put for a general inclination...desire of power after power that ceaseth only in death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Christianity - 1903 - 444 pages
...difference of the knowledge, or opinion each one has of the causes, which produce the effect desired. So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination...of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And the cause of this, is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight, than he has already... | |
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