 | Robert Warden Lee - 1898 - 140 pages
...the earth, no navigation, no building, no arts, no letters, no society ; worst of all continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life 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.... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1899 - 278 pages
...no account of time ; no arts ; no letters ; no society ; and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death ; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. The desires and other passions of man are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1899 - 468 pages
...no account of time ; no arts ; no letters ; no society ; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death ; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.—HOBBES : Leviathan, ch. 13. THE metaphysical parts of Spinoza's philosophy are expressed,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 454 pages
...decided by the sword. From "Philosophical Elements of a True Citizen. » BRUTALITY IN HUMAN NATURE IT MAY seem strange to some man that has not well weighed these things, that nature should dissociate, and render men apt to invade and destroy one another: and he may therefore, not trusting... | |
 | William Archibald Spooner - 1901 - 332 pages
...letters ; no society ; and, 1 Hobbes, Lev., part i. chap. vi. which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death ; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." 1 In such a state of nature there is obviously, further, no place for morality and no ground for moral... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1904 - 632 pages
...made his own apology very satisfactorily in these words : 'It may seem strange to some man that hath not well weighed these things, that nature should...one another ; and he may therefore, not trusting to the inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience. Let... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pages
...Leviathan. Part f. Chap. ic. No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Chap. xn'fi. THOMAS CAREW. 1589-1639. He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 pages
...Leviathan. Part i. Chap, it. No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Chap, zriii. THOMAS CAREW. 1589-1639. He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like... | |
 | 1919 - 1030 pages
...no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is the worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life 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.... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Frederic William Maitland - 1904 - 264 pages
...(besides many other wants) "no arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Do you object to this account of man t Look at experience. Does not a man arm himself when he is going... | |
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... 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 of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters;... 
