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, Essays on Historical Truth - Seite 50von Andrew Bisset - 1871 - 468 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1835 - 524 Seiten
...PRESS : MSTCALr, TOKRT. Aicn • PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. PART II. " No art*, no letters, no Rociety,— and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger...of Man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.'* LEVIATHAN, Fart I. c. 18. x MEN OF FLANDERS. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE, Regent of Flanders. RoosDYK RE '... | |
| Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 Seiten
...removing, such things as require much force ; no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time ; no arts ; no letters ; no society ; and which is worst...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It may seem strange to some man, that has not well weighed these things ; that nature should thus dimoriate,... | |
| Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 744 Seiten
...removing, such things as require much force ; no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time ; no arts; no letters; no society ; and which is worst...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It may seem strange to some man, that has not well weighed these things ; that nature should thus dissociate,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 574 Seiten
...reside in caverns and forests, in the condition described in the expressive language of Hobbes ; " no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." The most perfect democracy that now exists, or of which there is any record in history, is that of... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 566 Seiten
...reside in caverns and forests, in the condition described in the expressive language of Hobbes ; " no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." The most perfect democracy that now exists, or of which there is any record in history, is that of... | |
| 1845 - 578 Seiten
...are significantly reminded of the passage from Hobbes, which is prefixed as a motto to this work: ' No arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.' This moral is the more impressive from being unobtrusive. It is not by set speeches against private... | |
| George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 900 Seiten
...knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time ; no arts ; no letters ; no society ; und, which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." 1 For this state of chaos, which cannot be called society, two remedies arise :•—1. Inequality... | |
| Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 Seiten
...which he remarked, u that he was glad to see any thing solvent come from America." PLEASANT TIMES. No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst...the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.'—<Hobbes. MECHANICAL DUTY. Schiller used to say, that he found the great happiness of life,... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1852 - 478 Seiten
...fourteenth century. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. PART TUB FIRST. '• No arts, no letters, no society,—and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of...death, and the life of Man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutiah, and short." LEVIATHAN, Part I. c. 18. DRAMATIS PERSONS. MEN OF GHENT. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE.... | |
| Edward Josiah Stearns - 1853 - 340 Seiten
...thus describes the condition of Europe in the Middle Ages :—" No arts, no letters, no society,—and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." And it must be owned that there is too much truth in the description. Yet Europe in the Middle Ages... | |
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