...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...

...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...

...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...

...to a time of™.6 incommo» dities of such war, where every man is enemy to every man ; the a war. same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without...thus dissociate, and render men apt to invade, and deVOL. III. I stroy one another : and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference, made from the...

...no culture of the earth ; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by s«a ; no commodious building ; no instruments of moving,...thus dissociate, and render men apt to invade, and deVOL. III. • I stroy one another : and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference, made from...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...