 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...  From Gaelic to Romantic: Ossianic Translations - Page 36edited by - 1998 - 264 pagesLimited preview - 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) - English literature - 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 fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid... | |
 | 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 worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! " The scene is laid... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 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 worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of Man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." LEVIATHAN, Part I. c.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 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 worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 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 fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1835 - 524 pages
...which prevailed in Flanders towards the end of the fourteenth century. 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."... | |
 | 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 fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sŤa ; no commodious building ; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much...which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death ; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It may seem strange... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1839 - 744 pages
...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...which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death ; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It may seem strange... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 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 all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." The most perfect democracy... | |
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