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" ... the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower or two of rain but in an inclination thereto of many days together, so the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting but in the known... "
The Ethics of Hobbes: As Contained in Selections from His Works - Page 140
by Thomas Hobbes - 1898 - 377 pages
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History of New Hampshire, from Its First Discovery to the Year 1830: With ...

Edwin David Sanborn - New Hampshire - 1875 - 438 pages
...the notion of time is to be considered in the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For, as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower...all the time there is no assurance to the contrary." With this explanation and with another gratuitous assumption of all the old philosophers, that prior...
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History of New Hampshire, from Its First Discovery to the Year 1830: With ...

Edwin David Sanborn - New Hampshire - 1875 - 436 pages
...the notion of time is to be considered in the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For, as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower...thereto of many days together, so the nature of war consisted! not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto during all the time there is...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 4; Volume 80

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...the notion of time is to be considered in the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower...thereto of many days together, so the nature of war consistcth not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto during all the time there is...
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Leviathan; Or, The Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical ...

Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1886 - 328 pages
...notion of " time" is to be considered in the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower...assurance to the contrary. All other time is " peace." с / Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man i is enemy to every man,...
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Hobbes's Leviathan; Harrington's Ocean; Famous Pamphlets [A.D. 1644 to A.D ...

Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...the notion of "time" is to be considered in the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower...fighting, but in the known disposition thereto during nil the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is " peace." Whatsoever therefore...
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The Philosophy of Hobbes in Extracts and Notes Collated from His Writings

Thomas Hobbes - Christianity - 1903 - 444 pages
...the notion of time, is to be considered in the nature of war; as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather, lieth not in a shower...is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is VEACE. Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of ' war, where every man is enemy to every man...
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The Children: Some Educational Problems

Alexander Darroch - Education - 1907 - 152 pages
...war of nation against nation which Hobbes so eloquently describes : " For the nature of war, consists not in actual fighting ; but in the known disposition...all the time there is no assurance to the contrary." 1 In so far, then, as the provision of education by the State is undertaken with this end in view,...
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The Science-history of the Universe, Volume 10

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - Science - 1909 - 334 pages
...the notion of time is to be considered in the nature of war as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower...assurance to the contrary. All other time is peace." What seems to follow from human nature as such is further confirmed by experience, argues Hobbes: "It...
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English Prose (1137-1890)

John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 570 pages
...the notion of "time" is to be considered in the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower...all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. AH other time is "peace." Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy...
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Litterarhistorische Forschungen

Max freiherr von Waldberg - German literature - 1910 - 352 pages
...of foule weather, lyeth not in a showre or two of rain; but in an inclination thereto of many dayes together: So the nature of war, consisteth not in...all the time there is no assurance to the contrary" (Leviathan I, ch. 13). said before, it bears thus much of truth, that if that general malignity and...
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