 In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the 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,...  English Prose (1137-1890) - Strana 91upravili: - 1909 - 544 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 564 str.
...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...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 str.
...characteristics of every age in which the revolutionary spirit is the prime mover of things ; — " No arts, no letters', no society, — and, which is...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1834 - 340 str.
...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...of Man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." LEVIATHAN, Part I. c. 18. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. flic JFittt. ACT I. SCENE I. A STREET IN THE SUBURBS... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 744 str.
...to a time of™.6 incommo» dities of such war, where every man is enemy to every man ; the a war. same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without...thus dissociate, and render men apt to invade, and deVOL. III. I stroy one another : and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference, made from the... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 str.
...no culture of the earth ; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by s«a ; no commodious building ; no instruments of moving,...thus dissociate, and render men apt to invade, and deVOL. III. • I stroy one another : and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference, made from... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 574 str.
...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 - 592 str.
...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... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 str.
...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...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.' — 'Nobles. MECHANICAL DUTY. Schiller used to say, that he found the great happiness of life, after... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1852 - 478 str.
...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...of Man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." LRTIATHAN, Part I. c. 18. DRAMATIS PERSONS. MEN OF GHENT. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. PETER VAN DEN BOSCH,... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - 1853 - 328 str.
...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...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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