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" ... 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 and removing such things as... "
Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal ... - Page 63
by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1902
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 51

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...
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Thackeray's History of the Earl of Chatham

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...
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Philip Van Artevelde: A Dramatic Romance, Volume 1

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 51

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 51

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...
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Philip Van Artevelde: A Dramatic Romance, in Two Parts, Volume 1

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."...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 51

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...
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The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 3

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,...
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The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 3

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,...
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The North American Review, Volume 58

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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