 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 538 pages
...doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same (namely, that...subject after motion to pain and lassitude, think every thing else grows weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord ; little considering whether... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same (namely, that...subject after motion to pain and lassitude, think every thing else grows weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord ; little considering whether... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pages
...doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same (namely, that...subject after motion to pain and lassitude, think every thing else grows weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord ; little considering whether... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pages
...eternally be in motion, unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same, namely, imagination, that nothing can change itself, is not so easily assented...subject after motion to pain, and lassitude, think every thing else grows weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord ; little considering, whether... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pages
...eternally be in motion, unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same, namely, imagination, that nothing can change itself, is not so easily assented...subject after motion to pain, and lassitude, think every thing else grows weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord ; little considering, whether... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1851 - 248 pages
...motion, unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same, namely, * Vide vol. ij. p. 171, sq. that nothing can change itself, is not so easily assented...weary of motion and seeks repose of its own accord ; little considering whether it be not some other motion wherein that desire of rest, they find in... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 430 pages
...doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same, (namely, that...only other men, but all other things, by themselves." — Hobbes, on Imagination. " No one has yet been found possessed of sufficient firmness and severity... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 416 pages
...doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same, (namely, that...only other men, but all other things, by themselves." — HoUes, on Imagination. "No one has yet been found possessed of sufficient firmness and severity... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 430 pages
...doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same, (namely, that...not so easily assented to : for men measure not only oIher men, but all other things, by themselves." — Ho&bes, on Imagination. "No one has yet been found... | |
 | 1854 - 492 pages
...no man doubts of. But when a thing is in motion it will eternally be in motion unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same, namely, that...weary of motion and seeks repose of its own accord; little considering whether it be not some other motion wherein that desire of rest they find in themselves... | |
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THAT when a thing lies still, unless somewhat else stir it, it will lie still for ever, is a truth that no man doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same,... 
