 In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving...  Spinoza: His Life and Philosophy - Page 306by Frederick Pollock - 1880 - 467 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 558 pages
...revolutionary spirit is the prime mover of things — ' No arts, no letters, VOL. LI. NO. oil. 2 c no no society, — and, which is worst of all, continual...life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid in Flanders, at the close of the fourteenth century ; and those who desire to... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1834 - 340 pages
...Van Arlevelde. The SCENE is laid sometimes at GHENT, sometimes at BRUGES, or in its neighbourhood. " No arts, no letters, no society, — and which is...of Man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." LEVIATHAN, Part I. c. 18. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. flic JFittt. ACT I. SCENE I. A STREET IN THE SUBURBS... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1834 - 52 pages
...characteristics of every age in which the revolutionary spirit is the prime mover of things ; — " No arts, no letters', no society, — and, which is...life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! " The scene is laid in Flanders, at the close of the fourteenth century ; and those who desire to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 564 pages
...leading characteristics of every age in which the revolutionary spirit is the prime mover of things — ' No arts, no letters, no society, — and, which is...life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid in Flanders, at the close of the fourteenth century ; and those who desire to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 568 pages
...revolutionary spirit is the prime mover of things — ' No arts, no letters, VOL. LI. ho. en. 2 c no no society, — and, which is worst of all, continual...life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid in Flanders, at the close of the fourteenth century ; and those who desire to... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1835 - 524 pages
...PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. PART I. "No arts, no letters, no society, — and which is worst of all, continu fear and danger of violent death, and the life of Man solitary, poor, nast brutish, and short." LEVIATHAN, Part L c. 18. MEN OF GHENT. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE PETER VAN DEN... | |
 | 1834 - 562 pages
...revolutionary spirit is the prime mover of things — ' No arts, no letters, VOL. LI. NO. CD. 2 C HO ,* society, — and, which is worst of all, continual...life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid in Flanders, at the close of the fourteenth century ; and those who desire to... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 744 pages
...to a time of™.6 incommo» dities of such war, where every man is enemy to every man ; the a war. same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It may seem strange to some man, that has not well weighed these things ; that nature should thus dissociate,... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pages
...no culture of the earth ; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by s«a ; no commodious building ; no instruments of moving,...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It may seem strange to some man, that has not well weighed these things ; that nature should thus dissociate,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 574 pages
...reside in caverns and forests, in the condition described in the expressive language of Hobbes ; " no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." The most perfect democracy that now exists, or of which there is any record in history, is that of... | |
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