 I am not sure, that generally they to whom such honour is given, were more ancient when they wrote than I am that am writing. But if it be well considered, the praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition...  The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury - Page xby Thomas Hobbes - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 pages
...writing. But, if it be iveit considered, the praise of antient authors proceeds not from the reverence for the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living." HOBBIS. MS. Pate. " 1 have,very lately been authentically ioformed, that Swift n?eJ to be mortified... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 500 pages
...writing. But, if it be well considered, the praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence for the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living." HOBBES. MS. Pate. " I have very lately been authentically informed, that Swift used to be mortified... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 pages
...writing : but, if it be well considered, the praise of ancient authors proceeds not from reverence for the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.' Perhaps pedantry never received a more caustic application. . The following quotations from Leviathan,... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pages
...given, were more ancient when they wrote, than I am that am writing. But if it be well considered, the praise of ancient authors, proceeds not from the...from the competition, and mutual envy of the living. To conclude, there is nothing in this whole discourse, nor in that I writ before of the same sub- PART... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1871 - 514 pages
...nothing due, for if we will reverence the age, the present is the oldest. ... If it be well considered, the praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the...from the competition and mutual envy of the living.' — Leviathan, pp. 394, 395. 1 James Mill's Fragment on Mackintosh, pp. 27, 31, 32, 33. G knowledge,... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1884 - 636 pages
...transferred by Hobbes (Leviathan, conclusion) from the judgment of actions to that of literature : ' The praise of ancient authors, proceeds not from the...from the competition and mutual envy of the living.' APPENDIX I. ON BOOK II, CC. 23, 24. THE following fragment of a contemporary account of the disaster... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1886 - 328 pages
...is given, were more ancient when they wrote than I am that am writing. But if it be well considered, the praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the...from the competition and mutual envy of the living. To conclude, there is nothing in this whole discourse, nor in that I writ before of the same subject... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - 932 pages
...writing. But if it be well considered, the praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence tf the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. To conclude, there is nothing in this whole discourse, nor in that I writ before of the same subject... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1893 - 242 pages
...conclusion of Hobbes' ' Leviathan,' which is even more apposite here, where literature is under discussion : 'The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the...from the competition and mutual envy of the living.' 17. num dubitamus inventos, ie in the time of Cato, as is clear from the sequence of ideas. The construction... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1894 - 604 pages
...sterile saeculum ut non et bona exempla prodiderit. Furneaux to Ann. II 88 cites Hobbes, Leviathan, " The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the...from the competition and mutual envy of the living." — vitio = ' culpa.' So frequently eg Cic. Phil. II 18, 44 fortunae v. de div. 1 52,118 rerum v. Petron.... | |
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