 | Robert Blakey - Ethics - 1833 - 408 pages
...writings, where he maintains even society itself is, comparatively speaking, a state of warfare. " It may seem strange to some man that has not well...and render men apt to invade and destroy one another ; arid he may, therefore, not trusting to this inference, made from the passions, desire perhaps to... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1834 - 340 pages
...its neighbourhood. " No arts, no letters, no society, — and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of Man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." LEVIATHAN, Part I. c. 18. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. flic JFittt. ACT I. SCENE I. A STREET IN THE SUBURBS... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 564 pages
...mover of things — ' No arts, no letters, no society, — and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid in Flanders, at the close of the fourteenth century ; and those who desire to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1834 - 52 pages
...of things ; — " No arts, no letters', no society, — and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! " The scene is laid in Flanders, at the close of the fourteenth century ; and those who desire to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...made his own apology very satisfactorily in these words : " It may seem strange to some man that hath not well weighed these things, that nature should...one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to the inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience. Let... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Authors, English - 1836 - 538 pages
...made his own apology very satisfactorily in these words : " It may seem strange to some man that hath not well weighed these things, that nature should...one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to the inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience. Let... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pages
...made his own apology very satisfactorily in these words : "It may seem strange to some man that hath not well weighed these things, that nature should...one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to the inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience. Let... | |
 | 1834 - 562 pages
...arts, no letters, VOL. LI. NO. CD. 2 C HO ,* society, — and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid in Flanders, at the close of the fourteenth century ; and those who desire to... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...no account of time ; no arts ; no letters ; no society ; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death ; and the life of man,...thus dissociate, and render men apt to invade, and deVOL. III. • I stroy one another : and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference, made from... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...no account of time ; no arts ; no letters ; no society ; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death ; and the life of man,...thus dissociate, and render men apt to invade, and deVOL. III. I stroy one another : and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference, made from the... | |
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... navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters;... 
