| 1864 - 690 páginas
...when every man is enemy to every man ; no arts, no letters, no society ; and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the...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
...commodious building ; no account of time'; no arts ; no letters; no society; and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death ; and the...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
...But to the greater number it was "no arts, no letters, no society, — and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the...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... | |
| Andrew Bisset - 1871 - 514 páginas
...celebrated passage, ending with the words ' no arts, no letters, no society ; and, which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death ; and...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short,' is happily expressed ; but the chapter might have begun with it ; for what precedes, though connected... | |
| Andrew Bisset - 1871 - 514 páginas
...in which there are no arts, no letters, no society, and — which is worst of all — continual war, and danger of violent death ; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short,7 gives a flat contradiction to M. Comte's assertion. ; M. Comte calls England's parliamentary... | |
| Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1873 - 518 páginas
...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...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
...PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. PART THE FIRST. " No arts, no letters, no society,—and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the...nasty, brutish, and short." LEVIATHAN, Part I. c. 18. DRAMATIS PERSONS. MEN OP GHENT. PHILIF VAN ARTEVELDE. PETER VAN DEN BOSCH, SIR GUY, Lonn OF Occo,... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 páginas
...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 death ; and...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,... | |
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