 | Robert Kemp Philp - Great Britain - 1860 - 422 pages
...things as require much force ; no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time ; no art ; no letters; no society; and, which is worst of all,...fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Though there has been no period when the whole of this... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - Great Britain - 1860 - 450 pages
...things as require much force ; no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time ; no art ; no letters; no society; and, which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death j and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Though there has been no period when... | |
 | Sir George Young - Greek literature, Modern - 1862 - 120 pages
...Britain exhibit all the appalling features of barbarism : " no arts, no letters, no society ; and what is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death ; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short2." The labours and writings of Columbanus, the Evangelist... | |
 | Military art and science - 1864 - 690 pages
...given by Hobbes as the state of nature, — "a time of war, when every man is enemy to every man ; 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." In such a coarse view of social morality, "notions... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - English drama - 1864 - 354 pages
...the end of the fourteenth century. PHILIP VAN ARTEYELDE. PART THE FIRST. " No arts, no letters, 110 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." LEVIATHAN, Part I. c. 18. DRAMATIS PERSONS. K> \ Deans... | |
 | Scotland - 1865 - 838 pages
...use of the commodities that may be imported by sea ; no commodious building ; 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." ' When James the Fourth was on the throne, a truce... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1863 - 480 pages
...solitary thoughts, chafing like war-horses, impatient for the battle. But to the greater number it was "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." It was not till the commonalty, going between the oppressed... | |
 | 1869 - 1062 pages
...the passage from the 'Leviathan1 which Mr. Henry Taylor has prefixed to ' Philip Van Arteveldte ' : "No arts, no letters, no society, — and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of vMence, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish." It is this faction which, as Parliamentary... | |
 | England - 1869 - 796 pages
...passage from the ' Leviathan ' which Mr Henry Taylor has prefixed to ' Philip Van Arteveldte ' : " No arts, no letters, no society, — and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violence, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish." It is this faction which, as Parliamentary... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1873 - 518 pages
...sum up all in the words of a great moralist, ' There are no arts, no letters, no society, and, what is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.'" 43. But besides disregard of law and moral rectitude,... | |
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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... 
