 | Great Britain - 1920 - 434 pages
...force, no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time, 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.' GEORGE H. CRICHTON. THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE 1. Catalogue d'art he>aldique. By M. DUTRY. Ghent.... | |
 | 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 - 558 pages
...the prime mover of things — ' No arts, no letters, VOL. LI. NO. oil. 2 c no no society, — and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 576 pages
...the condition described in the expressive language of Hobbes ; "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." The most perfect democracy that now exists, or of which there is any record in history, is that of... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1834 - 340 pages
...MERESTYN. CLARA VAN ARTEVELDE, Sister of Philip Van Arlevelde. " No arts, no letters, no society, — and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of...short." LEVIATHAN, Part I. c. 18. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. flic JFittt. ACT I. SCENE I. A STREET IN THE SUBURBS OF GHENT. The LORD OF Occo, meeting SIR SIMON... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1834 - 508 pages
...revolutionary spirit is the prime mover of things ; — " No arts, no letters, no society, — and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of...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
...revolutionary spirit is the prime mover of things ; — " No arts, no letters', no society, — and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of...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... | |
 | 1834 - 562 pages
...is the prime mover of things — ' No arts, no letters, VOL. LI. NO. CD. 2 C HO ,* society, — and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...; no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and, which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger...the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."f For this state of chaos, which cannot be called society, two remedies arise: — 1. Inequality... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time ; no arts ; no letters ; no society ; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger...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,... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...force; no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society ; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. ' dmea of snch It may seem strange to some man, that has not well weighed these things; that nature... | |
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... consequently no culture of the earth, no 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... 
