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" The cause whereof is that the object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time, but to assure for ever the way of his future desire. "
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Page 61
1848
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The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 3

Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1839 - 744 pages
...teeth ,what ia r here meant before company, and such other points of the small hy manners. morals ; but those qualities of mankind, that concern their living together in peace, and unity. To which end we are to consider, that the felicity of this life, consisteth not in the repose of a...
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The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 3

Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...teeth What is r here meant before company, and such other points of the small hy manners. morals ; but those qualities of mankind, that concern their living together in peace, and unity. To which end we are to consider, that the felicity of this life, consisteth not in the repose of a...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...similar end, war must ensue. In a chapter which treats of the difference of manners, by which h<; meaus " those qualities of mankind that concern their living...unvarying object is " not to enjoy once only and for ono instant of time ; but to assure for ever the way of bis future desire." Hence he aims at " power...
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Mental and Moral Science: A Compendium of Psychology and Ethics

Alexander Bain - Ethics - 1868 - 898 pages
...Manners ; by manners being meant, not decency of behaviour and points of the ' small morals,' but the qualities of mankind that concern their living together in peace and unity. Felicity of life, as before, he pronounces to be a continual progress of desire, there being no finis...
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Mental and Moral Science: A Compendium of Psychology and Ethics

Alexander Bain - Ethics - 1868 - 902 pages
...Manners ; by manners being meant, not decency of behaviour and points of the ' small morals,' but the qualities of mankind that concern their living together in peace and unity. Felicity of life, as before, he pronounces to be a continual progress of desire, there being no finis...
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Hobbes

George Croom Robertson - 1886 - 264 pages
...afterwards the account of human impulses to action by chapters on " Power " and on " Manners " as " those qualities of mankind that concern their living together in peace and unity." In ' Human Nature,' with less separation of topics, the analysis had before been carried The Passions....
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Hobbes's Leviathan; Harrington's Ocean; Famous Pamphlets [A.D. 1644 to A.D ...

Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...wash his mouth, or pick his teeth before company, and such other points of the " small morals ; " but those qualities of mankind that concern their living together in peace and unity. To which end we are to consider that the felicity of this life consisteth not in the repose of a mind...
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British Moralists: Samuel Clarke. Balguy. Richard Price. Appendix : Balguy ...

Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - Ethics - 1897 - 456 pages
...wash his mouth, or pick his teeth before company, and such other points of the ' small morals ;' but those qualities of mankind that concern their living together in peace and unity. To which end we are to consider that the felicity of this life consisteth not in the repose of a mind...
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The Ethics of Hobbes: As Contained in Selections from His Works

Thomas Hobbes - Ethics - 1898 - 408 pages
...former, being still but the way to the latter. The cause whereof is, that the object of man's desire, is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of...to assure for ever, the way of his future desire. And therefore the voluntary actions, and inclinations of all men, tend, not only to the procuring,...
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The Ethics of Hobbes: As Contained in Selections from His Works

Thomas Hobbes - Ethics - 1898 - 408 pages
...wash his mouth, or pick his teeth before company, and such other points of the "small morals"; but those qualities of mankind, that concern their living together in peace, and unity. To which end we are to consider, that the felicity of this life, consisteth not in the repose of a...
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