 | 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
...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...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 violent...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 - Flanders - 1834 - 340 pages
...GHENT, sometimes at BRUGES, or in its neighbourhood. " No arts, no letters, no society, — and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1835 - 524 pages
...TORRT, AWD B i LL o H . PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. PART II. " No arts, no letters, no society, — and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of Han solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." I<KVI vr;i JN, Part I. c. 18. v MEN OF FLANDERS. PHILIP... | |
 | 1834 - 562 pages
...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...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 Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...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 violent...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 - 1839 - 744 pages
...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 violent...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,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 574 pages
...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 violent...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 - 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...and the life of Man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, Hnd short." LRVIATHAK, Part I. c. is. HBiamatte MEN OF GHENT. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. PETER VAN DEN BOSCH,... | |
 | 1845 - 592 pages
...from Hobbes, which is prefixed as a motto to this work : ' No arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent...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... | |
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... 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 account of time,... 
