 | 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
...revolutionary spirit is 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 violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid in Flanders, at the close of the... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1834 - 340 pages
...Van Arlevelde. The SCENE is laid sometimes at GHENT, sometimes at BRUGES, or in its neighbourhood. " No arts, no letters, no society, — and which is...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1834 - 52 pages
...characteristics of every age in which the revolutionary spirit is the prime mover of things ; — " No arts, no letters', no society, — and, which is...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... | |
 | 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
...leading characteristics of every age in which the revolutionary spirit is the prime mover of things — ' No arts, no letters, no society, — and, which is...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... | |
 | 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 - 568 pages
...revolutionary spirit is the prime mover of things — ' No arts, no letters, VOL. LI. ho. en. 2 c no 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... | |
 | 1834 - 562 pages
...revolutionary spirit 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 violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid in Flanders, at the close of the... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...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...fear, and danger of violent death ; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It may seem strange to some man, that has not well... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1839 - 744 pages
...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...fear, and danger of violent death ; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It may seem strange to some man, that has not well... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 574 pages
...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...fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." The most perfect democracy that now exists, or of... | |
 | sir Henry Taylor - 1844 - 352 pages
...fourteenth century. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. Dari Hie Jfrst. " No arts, no letters, no socieiy,—and, which IS worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of Man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, Hnd short." LRVIATHAK, Part I. c. is. HBiamatte MEN OF GHENT.... | |
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... fruit thereof is uncertain, and 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... 
