 But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same, namely, that nothing can change itself, is not so easily assented to. For men measure, not only other men, but all other things,...  Introduction to the Literature of Europe: In the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and ... - Page 272by Henry Hallam - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...themselves ; and because they find themselves subject after motion to pain, and lassitude, think everything else grows weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord ; little considering, whether it be not some other motion, wherein that desire of rest they find in... | |
 | 1890 - 608 pages
...themselves ; and because they find themselves subject after motion to pain and lassitude, think everything else grows weary of motion and seeks repose of its own accord ; little considering whether it be not some other motion, wherein that desire of rest they find in... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Ethics - 1898 - 408 pages
...themselves ; and because they find themselves subject after motion to pain, and lassitude, think everything else grows weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord ; little considering, whether it be not some other motion, wherein that desire of rest they find in... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1904 - 632 pages
...doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same (namely, that...weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord ; little considering whether it be not some other motion wherein that desire of rest they find in themselves... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Christianity - 1903 - 444 pages
...themselves; and because they find themselves subject after motion, to pain, and lassitude, think everything else grows weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord ; little considering, whether it be not some other motion, wherein that desire of rest they find in... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 484 pages
...doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same, namely, that...weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord ; little considering, whether it be not some other motion, wherein that desire of rest they find in... | |
 | Philosophy, Modern - 1908 - 768 pages
...themselves; and because they find themselves subject after motion to pain, and lassitude, think everything else grows weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord; little considering, whether it be not some other motion, wherein that desire of rest they find in themselves,... | |
 | Literature - 1910 - 470 pages
...themselves; and, because they find themselves subject after motion to pain and lassitude, think everything else grows weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord; little considering whether it be not some other motion wherein that desire of rest they find in themselves... | |
 | René Descartes - Philosophy - 1910 - 446 pages
...themselves; and, because they find themselves subject after motion to pain and lassitude, think everything else grows weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord; little considering whether it be not some other motion wherein that desire of rest they find in themselves... | |
 | René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1910 - 436 pages
...themselves; and, because they find themselves subject after motion to pain and lassitude, think everything else grows weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord; little considering whether it be not some other motion wherein that desire of rest they find in themselves... | |
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