The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 8John Bohn, 1843 - Philosophy |
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Page 327 - He that did insidiate, if it took, was a wise man; but he that could smell out a trap laid, a more dangerous man than he. But he that had been so provident as not to need to do the one or the other was said to be a dissolver of society and one that stood in fear of his adversary. In brief, he that could outstrip another in the doing of an evil act or that could persuade another thereto that never meant it was commended.
Page 190 - Athenians, said also to have seized formerly on divers other parts, as about Lemnos and elsewhere; but so great a plague and mortality of men was never remembered to have happened In~ any place before. For at first neither were the physicians able to cure it through ignorance of what it was but died fastest themselves, as being the men that most approached the sick, nor any other art of man availed whatsoever.
Page xii - Digressions for instruction's cause, and other such open conveyances of precepts, (which is the philosopher's part), he never useth; as having so clearly set before men's eyes the ways and events of good and evil councils, that the narration itself doth secretly instruct the reader, and more effectually than can possibly be done by precept.
Page 196 - ... day. As for pains, no man was forward in any action of honour to take any, because they thought it uncertain whether they should die or not, before they achieved it. But what any man knew to be delightful, and to be profitable to pleasure, that was made both profitable and honourable. Neither the fear of the gods, nor laws of men, awed any man.
Page 198 - And thereupon they thought the present misery to be a fulfilling of that prophecy. The Peloponnesians were no sooner entered Attica but the sickness presently began, and never came into Peloponnesus, to speak of, but reigned principally in Athens and in such other places afterwards as were most populous. And thus much of this disease.
Page 327 - For these societies were not made upon prescribed laws of profit but for rapine, contrary to the laws established. And as for mutual trust amongst them, it was confirmed not so much by divine law as by the communication of guilt. And what was well advised of their adversaries, they received with an eye to their actions to see whether they were too strong for them or not, and not ingenuously. To be revenged was in more request than never to have received injury. And for...
Page xiv - ... sheweth that it was a great war, and worthy to be known ; and not to be concealed from posterity, for the calamities that then fell upon the Grecians ; but the rather to be truly delivered unto them, for that men profit more by looking on adverse events, than on prosperity: therefore by how much men.s miseries do better instruct, than their good success ; by so much was Thucydides more happy in taking his argument, than Herodotus was wise in choosing his.
Page 454 - Dictionary of the Manners, Customs, Laws, Institutions, Arts, &c., of the celebrated Nations of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages ; to which is prefixed, a Synoptical and Chronological View of Ancient History.
Page xix - Marcellinus saith he was obscure, on purpose that the common people might not understand him ; and not unlikely, for a wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men), that wise men only should be able to commend him.