| 1864 - 690 páginas
...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...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." In such a coarse view of social morality, "notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have... | |
| Andrew Bisset - 1864 - 450 páginas
...Scotland, here was the vast .bulk of a nation still in that state of primaeval barbarism where " there is continual fear and danger of violent death, and the...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." They had shorn their flock indeed, but they had neither fed them, nor led them, for it will not be... | |
| Andrew Bisset - 1864 - 416 páginas
...Scotland, here was the vast bulk of a nation still in that state of primaeval barbarism where " there is continual fear and danger of violent death, and the...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." They had shorn their flock indeed, but they had neither fed them, nor led them, for it will not be... | |
| 1865 - 838 páginas
...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...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." ' When James the Fourth was on the throne, a truce was concluded which lasted for several years. The... | |
| 1863 - 480 páginas
...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...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." It was not till the commonalty, going between the oppressed many and the elevated few, took sides with... | |
| Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1873 - 518 páginas
...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...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.'" 43. But besides disregard of law and moral rectitude, and of the life and property of others, there... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1876 - 376 páginas
...fourteenth century. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. PART THE FIRST. " No arts, no letters, no society,—and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of...short." LEVIATHAN, Part I. c. 18. DRAMATIS PERSONS. MEN OP GHENT. PHILIF VAN ARTEVELDE. PETER VAN DEN BOSCH, SIR GUY, Lonn OF Occo, ( , PETER VAN NUITIIE,... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 páginas
...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...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It may seem strange to some man, that has not well weights! these things, that nature should thus dissociate,... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1877 - 494 páginas
...of waiting to see what success might attend the Flemish insurgents. At Rheims, Chalons-on-the-Marne, at Orleans, Beauvoisin, the like designs were entertained....c. 18. DRAMATIS PERSONS. MEN OF GHENT. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. PETER VAN DEN BOSCH, \ SIR GUY, LORD OF Occo, f ,. . ,., .„, ., ,, , \Leaders of the White-Hoods.... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1879 - 288 páginas
...require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth, no account of time, no arts, no letters, 110 society ; and, which is worst of all, continual fear...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short," If the poorest and most wretched members of a so-called civilised society are in as bad a condition... | |
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