 | 1845 - 592 pages
...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...fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.' This moral is the more impressive from being unobtrusive.... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1850 - 196 pages
...upon which he remarked, uthat he was glad to see any thing solvent come from America." PLEASANT TIMES. 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.' — 'Nobles. MECHANICAL DUTY. Schiller used to say,... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1852 - 478 pages
...prevailed in Flanders towards the end of the fourteenth century. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. PART THE FIRST. '' 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." LRTIATHAN, Part I. c. 18. DRAMATIS PERSONS. MEN OF... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - Slavery - 1853 - 328 pages
...in his Leviathan, (Pt. i. ch. 18,) thus describes the condition of Europe in the Middle Ages : — " 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." And it must be owned that there is too much truth in... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - Slavery - 1853 - 340 pages
...in his Leviathan, (Pt. i. ch. 18,) thus describes the condition of Europe in the Middle Ages : — " 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." And it must be owned that there is too much truth in... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...upon which he remarked, "that he was glad to see any thing solvent come from America." PLEASANT TIMES. 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.- — -Hobbes. MECHANICAL DUTY. Schiller used to say,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - Conduct of life - 1853 - 294 pages
...perhaps, superior to this, we may say that we are living amongst secondhand arts, misguiding letters, bad society — and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of the meanest aspects of public opinion ; and the life of man gregarious, unsociable, whirling, confused,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - Conduct of life - 1854 - 350 pages
...perhaps, superior to this, we may say that we are living amongst second-hand arts, misguiding letters, bad society — and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of the meanest aspects of public opinion; and the life of man gregarious, unsociable, whirling, confused,... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 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...fear, and danger of violent death ; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. 1 i. t ., in modern language, extraordinarily. 2 Hobbes... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 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...fear, and danger of violent death ; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. 1 i.«., in modern language, extraordinarily. 2 Hobbes... | |
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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... 
