 | James Pendleton Lichtenberger - 1923 - 504 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." " Man in civilized society manifests these traits : "When taking a journey, he arms himself, and seeks... | |
 | Edgar Arthur Singer - 1923 - 346 pages
...thereof is uncertain, ... no arts, no letters, no society, and, what is worst of all, continued fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. . . . " And consequently, it is a precept, or general rule of reason, that every man ought to endeavor... | |
 | William George De Burgh - 1924 - 494 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." 1 The seventh century might well have seemed such to the eyes of the seventeenth. The modern reader... | |
 | National Society for the Study of Education - 1924 - 464 pages
...earth; 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."2 Hobbes goes on to argue that at such a price life is not worth what it costs and proposes... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 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. Leviathan 130 The Tapacy BUT after this Doctrine, that the Church now Militant, is the Kingdom of God... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1926 - 458 pages
...earth; 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." Is this picture a travesty of human nature? Do you doubt its truth? Look, Hobbes adjures you, to actual... | |
 | Barry Cooper - 2005 - 268 pages
...any event, in such a condition, Hobbes said in his most oft-quoted phrase, there is "continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." It is a state of war without law and without justice, rilled only with force and fraud, the "two cardinal... | |
 | Albert Weale - 2005 - 176 pages
...force of others, survival itself is at stake, so that in Hobbes's words, there is 'continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'. The conventional lesson to draw from the absence of security in a state of nature is the need to form... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 2005 - 404 pages
...earth; 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. io. It may seem strange to some man that has not well weighed these things that nature should thus... | |
 | Nigel Jonathan Spivey - 2005 - 300 pages
...humans living in a pre-civilized 'state of nature'. It was a situation, he declared, of 'continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'. At the time when the paintings at Altamira were found, most people would have imagined the typical... | |
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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;... 
