 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...themselves by springs and wheels, as doth a watch) have an artificial life ? For what is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and...leviathan, called a Commonwealth, or State, (in Latin Ciutas) which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...themselves hy springs and wheels, as doth a watch) have an artificial life ? For what is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and...leviathan, called a Commonwealth, or State, (in Latin Cnitai) which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pages
...his writings, is nothing but a synonyme for sovereign authority. His own explanation is decisive. " By art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH or STATE, which is but an artiiiciall man ; though of greater stature and strength than the natural!, for whose... | |
 | 1845 - 570 pages
...themselves by springs and wheels, as doth a watch) have an artificial life ? For what is the heart but a spring ; and the nerves, but so many strings ; and...imitating that rational and most excellent work of natare, man. For by art is created that great Leviathan called a Commonwealth, or State, in Latin Civitas,... | |
 | 1846 - 396 pages
...themselves by springs and wheels, as doth a watch) have an artificial life ? For what is the heart but a spring; and the nerves, but so many strings; and...many wheels, giving motion to the whole body, such as about the disadvantage of writing in English as compared with writing in Greek or Latin, it was only... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...his writings, is nothing but a synonyme for sovereign authority. His own explanation is decisive. " By art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH or STATE, which ie but an artiticiall man ; though of greater stature and strength than the natural!, for whose... | |
 | 1853 - 454 pages
...artificial life ? For what is the heart but a spring, and the nerres but so many strings, and ih.cjvinls but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body,...LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH or STATE, in Latin, Vivitas, which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than is natural, for... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 pages
...themselves by springs and wheels, as doth a watch,) have an artificial life'.' For what is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and...whole body, such as was intended by the artificer ?" We shall have occasion hereafter to observe how Hobbes again and again returns to this idea, in... | |
 | 1854 - 492 pages
...other things so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal. Art goes yet farther in imitating that rational and most excellent work of...created that great leviathan called a Commonwealth, which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 pages
...themselves by springs and wheels, as doth a watch) have an artificial life? For what is the heart but a spring; and the nerves but so many strings ; and...great leviathan, called a Commonwealth, or State, which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose... | |
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For what is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body, such as was intended by the artificer... 
