 | Edward Stillingfleet - 1817 - 430 pàgines
...come; and so his heart is snawed on perpetually by fear of death, poverty, or other calamity; and Jiath no repose or pause of his anxiety but in sleep. What...some power or agent invisible. Thence the poets said, thai the Gods were first created by human fear ; which being spoken of the many Gods of the Gentiles,... | |
 | Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch - 1829 - 544 pàgines
...with their curiosity, are thus joined together by a modern writer :a " Perpetual fear of future evils always accompanying mankind, in the ignorance of causes,...is nothing to be seen, there is nothing to accuse for their evil fortune, but some power or .agent invisible." Moreover, it is concluded, that from the... | |
 | William Brown Galloway - 1837 - 570 pàgines
...his own words in testimony of his belief in the existence of God. " This perpetual fear," says he, " always accompanying mankind in the ignorance of causes,...or evil fortune, but some power or agent invisible : in which sense perhaps it was that some of the old poets said that the .gods were at first created... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pàgines
...causes, as it were, in the power of indark, must needs have for object something. And ™ihle things, therefore when there is nothing to be seen, there...evil fortune, but some power, or agent invisible: in which sense perhaps it was, that some of the old poets said, that the gods were at first created... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pàgines
...causes, as it were in the power of indark, must needs have for object something. And vil)ihle things, therefore when there is nothing to be seen, there...or evil fortune, but some power, or agent invisible : in which sense perhaps it was, that some of the old poets said, that the gods were at first created... | |
 | Ralph Cudworth - 1845 - 678 pàgines
...with their curiosity, are thus joined together by a ^modern writer: ls "Perpetual fear of future evils always accompanying mankind, in the ignorance of causes, as it were in 11 Metnphys. lib. 1. cap. 4. p. 267. torn. 4. opp. 19 Hobbes, Lcviath. cap. 12. p. 65, &c. But Hobbes... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - 932 pàgines
...fear of death, poverty, or other calamity, and has no repose, nor pause of his anxiety, but in sleep. This perpetual fear, always accompanying mankind in...fortune, but some " power," or agent "invisible," in which sense perhaps it was, that some of the old poets said, that the gods were at first created... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1898 - 408 pàgines
...fear of death, poverty, or other calamity ; and has no repose, nor pause of his anxiety, but in sleep. This perpetual fear, always accompanying mankind in...evil fortune, but some "power," or agent "invisible"; in which sense perhaps it was, that some of the old poets said, that the gods were at first created... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1903 - 444 pàgines
...fear of death, poverty, or other calamity ; and has no repose, nor pause of his anxiety, but in sleep. This perpetual fear, always accompanying mankind in...evil fortune, but some power, or agent invisible: in which sense perhaps it was, that some of the old poets said, that the gods were at first created... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes, Mary Whiton Calkins - 1905 - 232 pàgines
...fear of death, poverty, or other calamity; and has no repose, nor pause of his anxiety but in sleep. This perpetual fear, always accompanying mankind in...evil fortune, but some power, or agent invisible: in which sense perhaps it was, that some of the old poets said, that the gods were at first created... | |
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This perpetual fear, always accompanying mankind in the ignorance of causes, as it were in the dark, must needs have for object something. And therefore, when there is nothing to be seen, there is nothing to accuse, either of their good or evil fortune,... 
