 From this equality of ability, ariseth equality of hope in the attaining of our ends. And therefore if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and in the way to their end, which is principally...  Literature and Law - Page 204edited by - 2004 - 244 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1839 - 744 pages
...this equality of ability, ariseth equality of From hope in the attaining of our ends. And therefore di if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless...they become enemies ; and in the way to their end, which is principally their own conservation, and sometimes their delectation only, endeavour to destroy,... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...this equality of ability, ariseth equality of From hope in the attaining of our ends. And therefore if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless...they become enemies ; and in the way to their end, which is prin- V cipally their own conservation, and sometimes their delectation only, endeavour to... | |
 | American literature - 1848 - 614 pages
...nature and right, united with the appetites of men, contention is a necessary consequence. For— " If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless...they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and in their way to their end * * * endeavor to destroy or subdue one another." — Leviathan, Pt. I., ch.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...nature and right, united with the appetites of men, contention is a necessary consequence. For — " If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless...they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and in their way to their end • • • endeavor to destroy or subdue one another." — Leviatha», Pt.... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1847 - 586 pages
...nature and right, united with the appetites of men, contention is a necessary consequence. For — ' If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless...they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and in their way to their end * * * endeavour to destroy or subdue one another.' — Leviathtin, Ft. L ch.... | |
 | Thomas Fowler, J. M. Wilson - Ethics - 1886 - 186 pages
...From this equality of ability, ariseth equality of hope in the attaining of our ends. And therefore if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless...they become enemies ; and in the way to their end, which is principally their own conservation, and sometimes their delectation only, endeavour to destroy,... | |
 | Thomas Fowler, John Matthias Wilson - Ethics - 1886 - 184 pages
...From this equality of ability, ariseth equality of hope in the attaining of our ends. And therefore if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless...they become enemies ; and in the way to their end, which is principally their own conservation, and sometimes 1 Leviathan, ch. 13. The Leviathan is the... | |
 | Ágost Pulszky - History - 1888 - 498 pages
...those things they equally apply themselves to." From equality proceeds mutual diffidence, because " two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy." From diffidence, again, arises war, the condition of the possibility of mutual hostilities, as "in... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...From this equality of ability, ariseth equality of hope in the attaining of our ends. And therefore if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless...they become enemies ; and in the way to their end, which is principally their own conservation, and sometimes their delectation only, endeavoilr to destroy... | |
 | Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - Ethics - 1897 - 476 pages
...From this equality of ability, ariseth equality of hope in the attaining of our ends. And therefore if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless...they become enemies ; and in the way to their end, which is principally their own conservation, and sometimes their delectation only, endeavour to destroy... | |
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