| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 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...life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid in Flanders, at the close of the fourteenth century ; and those who desire to... | |
| 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...life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! " The scene is laid in Flanders, at the close of the fourteenth century ; and those who desire to... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 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...of Man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." LEVIATHAN, Part I. c. 18. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. flic JFittt. ACT I. SCENE I. A STREET IN THE SUBURBS... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 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...life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid in Flanders, at the close of the fourteenth century ; and those who desire to... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 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...life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid in Flanders, at the close of the fourteenth century ; and those who desire to... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 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...life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ! ' The scene is laid in Flanders, at the close of the fourteenth century ; and those who desire to... | |
| Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pages
...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...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It may seem strange to some man, that has not well weighed these things ; that nature should thus dissociate,... | |
| Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pages
...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...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It may seem strange to some man, that has not well weighed these things ; that nature should thus dissociate,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 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 man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." The most perfect democracy that now exists, or of which there is any record in history, is that of... | |
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