 ... 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 of the face of the earth;...  The Quarterly Review - Page 366edited by - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 pages
..."that he was glad to see any thing solvent come from America." PLEASANT TIMES. No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.- — -Hobbes. MECHANICAL DUTY. Schiller used to say, that he found the great happiness of life, after... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - 1853 - 328 pages
...i. ch. 18,) thus describes the condition of Europe in the Middle Ages : — " No arts, no letters, no society, — and which is worst of all, continual...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." And it must be owned that there is too much truth in the description. Yet Europe in the Middle Ages... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - 1853 - 340 pages
...i. ch. 18,) thus describes the condition of Europe in the Middle Ages : — " No arts, no letters, no society, — and which is worst of all, continual...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." And it must be owned that there is too much truth in the description. Yet Europe in the Middle Ages... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1853 - 294 pages
...perhaps, superior to this, we may say that we are living amongst secondhand arts, misguiding letters, bad society — and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of the meanest aspects of public opinion ; and the life of man gregarious, unsociable, whirling, confused,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1854 - 350 pages
...perhaps, superior to this, we may say that we are living amongst second-hand arts, misguiding letters, bad society — and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of the meanest aspects of public opinion; and the life of man gregarious, unsociable, whirling, confused,... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...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 all, continual...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. 1 i. t ., in modern language, extraordinarily. 2 Hobbes refers to Thomas Aquinas— the angel of the... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1860 - 422 pages
...require much force ; no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time ; no art ; no letters; no society; and, which is worst of all, continual...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Though there has been no period when the whole of this powerful description would apply to English... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...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 all, continual...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. 1 i.«., in modern language, extraordinarily. 2 Hobbes refers to Thomas Aquinas— the angel of the... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1860 - 450 pages
...require much force ; no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time ; no art ; no letters; no society; and, which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death j and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Though there has been no period when... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1862 - 468 pages
...towards the end of the fourteenth century. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. PART THE FIRST. " No arts, no letters, no society, — and, which is worst of all, continual...of Man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." LEVIATHAN, Part I. c. 18. DRAMATIS PERSONS. MEN OF GHENT. PHILIP VAN AETEVELDE. PETER VAN I>EN BOSCH,... | |
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