 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...  An Anthology of English Prose: (1332 to 1740) - Page 113by Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1912 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir Henry Taylor - 1844 - 352 pages
...fourteenth century. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. Dari Hie Jfrst. " No arts, no letters, no socieiy,—and, which IS worst of all, continual fear and danger of...and the life of Man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, Hnd short." LRVIATHAK, Part I. c. is. HBiamatte MEN OF GHENT. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. PETER VAN DEN BOSCH,... | |
 | 1845 - 592 pages
...are significantly reminded of the passage from Hobbes, which is prefixed as a motto to this work : ' No arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.' This moral is the more impressive from being unobtrusive. It is not by set speeches against private... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 pages
...upon which he remarked, uthat he was glad to see any thing solvent come from America." PLEASANT TIMES. No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.' — 'Nobles. MECHANICAL DUTY. Schiller used to say, that he found the great happiness of life, after... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1852 - 478 pages
...prevailed in Flanders towards the end of the fourteenth century. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. PART THE FIRST. '' No arts, no letters, no society, — and, which is...of Man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." LRTIATHAN, Part I. c. 18. DRAMATIS PERSONS. MEN OF GHENT. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. PETER VAN DEN BOSCH,... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1852 - 476 pages
...PHILIP VAN AUTEVELDE. PART THE FIRST. "No arts, no letters, no society, — and, which is worst of nil. continual fear and danger of violent death, and the...solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." LEVIATHAN, Part I. c. Ifi. DRAMATIS PERSONS. MEN OF GHENT. PHILIP VAN AETEVELDE. PETER VAN DEN BOSCH, "| SIB GUY.... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - 1853 - 340 pages
...in his Leviathan, (Pt. i. ch. 18,) thus describes the condition of Europe in the Middle Ages : — " No arts, no letters, no society, — and which is...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 - 328 pages
...in his Leviathan, (Pt. i. ch. 18,) thus describes the condition of Europe in the Middle Ages : — " No arts, no letters, no society, — and which is...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... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 pages
...upon which he remarked, "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 man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.- — -Hobbes. MECHANICAL DUTY. Schiller used to say, that he found the great happiness of life, after... | |
 | 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,... | |
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