... 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 and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge... The Quarterly Review - Page 365edited by - 1834Full view - About this book
| Joseph Rickaby - 1888 - 396 pages
...removing such things as require much force : no knowledge of the face of the earth : no account of time : no arts, no letters, no society : and which is worst...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. . . . To this war of every man against every man this also is consequent, that nothing can be unjust.... | |
| Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - 932 pages
...' no account of time ; no arts ; no letters ; no society ; and, which is worsof all, continualjfear and danger of violent death ; and the life 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,... | |
| Mattoon Monroe Curtis - 1890 - 168 pages
...of the face of the earth, no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worse of all, continual fear and danger of violent death,...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". Lev. XIII. This wretched state of nature, this mutual annihilation, gives rise to the social compact.... | |
| John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 pages
...— they do hat reckon hy them ; hat they are the money of fools. The Leciathan. Part i. Chap. i«. No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continnal fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, hrntish, and... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 638 pages
...removing such things as require much force ; no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time ; no arts ; no letters ; no society ; and, which is...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,... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 624 pages
...removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face- of the earth ; no account of time ; no arts ; no letters ; no society ; and, which is...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,... | |
| 1896 - 1224 pages
...wither'd in my hand. u. HEBBEBT — Life. Life is short, art long, t). HIPPOCRATES — Aphorisms. Sec. 1. . Summer. L. 1,682. Gnat. A work of skill, surpassing...eye, He form'd this gnat who built the sky. 1. MONT «'. THOMAS HOBBES — leviathan. Pt. I. Qf Man. Ch. XVIII. For Fate has wove the thread of life with... | |
| Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - 1897 - 456 pages
...removing such things as require much force ; no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and, which is worst...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. 896 It may seem strange to some man, that has not well weighed these things, that Nature should thus... | |
| Thomas Hobbes - 1898 - 408 pages
...removing such things, as require much force ; no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time ; no arts ; no letters ; no society ; and, which is...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,... | |
| Robert Warden Lee - 1898 - 140 pages
...consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation, no building, no arts, no letters, no society ; worst of all continual fear and danger of violent...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." Does any one deny the existence of such a state ? Experience confirms it (i) even in political societies.... | |
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