 | Robert Blakey - 1833 - 402 pages
...never had been any time, wherein particular men were in a condition of war one against another ; yet in all times, kings, and persons of sovereign authority,...continual spies upon their neighbours ; which is a picture of war. But because they uphold thereby the industry of their subjects, there does not follow... | |
 | John Bramhall - 1844 - 616 pages
...kings, and persons [And that of sovereign authority, because of their independency, are in between continual jealousies, and in the state and posture...having their weapons pointing and their eyes fixed on possible.] one another8." It is good for a sovereign prince to have his sword always by his side, to... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...never been any time, wherein particular men were in a condition of war one against another : yet in all times, kings and persons of sovereign authority....upon the frontiers of their kingdoms ; and continual spys upon their neighbours ; which is a posture of war. But because they uphold thereby the industry... | |
 | 1896 - 470 pages
...anointed kings and sovereigns, its baptized presidents and ministers, who "are," in the phrase of Hobbes, "in continual jealousies and in the state and posture of gladiators; having their weapons pointed and their eyes fixed on one another; that is, their forts, garrisons, and guns upon the frontiers... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 454 pages
...had never been any time wherein particular men were in a condition of war one against another, yet in all times, kings and persons of sovereign authority,...of their kingdoms; and continual spies upon their neighbors; which is a posture of war. But, because they uphold thereby the industry of their subjects,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Frederic William Maitland - 1904 - 264 pages
...savages live in this nasty and brutish fashion. If however, that were not so with particular men, "yet in all times kings and persons of sovereign authority,...kingdoms — and continual spies upon their neighbours." The argument is certainly not obsolete, nor the remark which follows. "Because they uphold thereby... | |
 | William Archibald Dunning - 1905 - 484 pages
...passions of men resume sway. And finally, the standing attitude of sovereigns toward one another — " having their weapons pointing and their eyes fixed...another ; " that is, their forts, garrisons and guns in readiness and their spies ever active, — all this is eloquent of the normal and natural relation... | |
 | 1911 - 564 pages
...had never been any time wherein particular men were in a condition of war one against another; yet in all times kings and persons of sovereign authority,...jealousies, and in the state and posture of gladiators." The natural attitude of nations toward one another is that of hostility, because the disintegrating... | |
 | James Seth - 1912 - 404 pages
...his fellows ' as much accuse mankind by his actions, as I do by my words ? ' And are not nations ' in the state and posture of gladiators ; having their...upon their neighbours ; which is a posture of war ? ' 2 In this 'state of nature' there is no distinction between justice and injustice ; might is the... | |
 | Francis William Coker - 1914 - 608 pages
...had never been any time wherein particular men were in a condition of war one against another; yet in all times, kings, and persons of sovereign authority,...of their kingdoms; and continual spies upon their neighbors; which is a posture of war. But because they uphold thereby the industry of their subjects,... | |
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... in all times, kings, and persons of sovereign authority, because of their independency, are in continual jealousies and in the state and posture of gladiators; having their weapons pointing, and their eyes fixed on one another; that is, their forts,... 
