 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...to be free from giving offence ; yet he cannot possibly have either a great fancy, or much judgment. For the thoughts are to the desires, as scouts, and...all quickness of the same, proceeding from thence : for as to have no desire, is to be dead : so to have weak passions, is dullness ; and to have pasGiddiness,... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...to be free from giving offence ; yet he cannot possibly have either a great fancy, or much judgment. For the thoughts are to the desires, as scouts, and...motion, and all quickness of the same, proceeding from OF MAN. thence : for as to have no desire, is to be dead : so to have weak passions, is dullness ;... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1886 - 328 pages
...be free from giving offence ; yet he cannot possibly have. either a great fancy, or much judgment. For the thoughts are to the desires, as scouts, and...all quickness of the same, proceeding from thence : for as to have no desire, is to be dead : so to have weak passions, is dulncss ; and to have passions... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...to be free from giving offence ; yet he cannot possibly have either a great fancy, or much judgment. For the thoughts are to the desires, as scouts, and...all quickness of the same, proceeding from thence : for as to have no desire, is to be dead : so to have weak passions, is dulness ; and to have passions... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Christianity - 1903 - 444 pages
...to be free from giving offence; yet he cannot possibly have either a great fancy, or much judgment. For the thoughts are to the desires, as scouts, and...all quickness of the same, proceeding from thence : for as to have no desire, is to be dead : so to have weak passions, is dullness; and to have passions... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Frederic William Maitland - Philosophers - 1904 - 280 pages
...good in the sense of inoffensive; "yet he cannot possibly have either a great fancy or much judgment. For the thoughts are to the desires as scouts and...and all quickness of the same proceeding from thence ; for as to have no desire is to be dead, so to have weak passions is dullness ; and to have passions... | |
 | René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1910 - 436 pages
...to be free from giving offence, yet he cannot possibly hnve either a great fancy or much judgment. For the thoughts are to the desires as scouts and spies, to range abroad and find the way of the things desired, all steadiness of the mind's motion, and all quickness of the same, proceeding... | |
 | René Descartes - Philosophy - 1910 - 446 pages
...to be free from giving offence, yet he cannot possibly have either a great fancy or much judgment. For the thoughts are to the desires as scouts and spies, to range abroad and find the way of the things desired, all steadiness of the mind's motion, and all quickness of the same, proceeding... | |
 | Literature - 1910 - 470 pages
...to be free from giving offence, yet he cannot possibly have either a great fancy or much judgment. For the thoughts are to the desires as scouts and spies, to range abroad and find the way of the things desired, all steadiness of the mind's motion, and all quickness of the same, proceeding... | |
 | Roberto Mangabeira Unger - Philosophy - 1976 - 356 pages
...a thousand different ways by all the disciplines that sprung from the new science he helped create: "For the Thoughts are to the Desires, as Scouts, and...abroad, and find the way to the things desired: All Stedinesse of the mind's motion, and all quickness of the same, proceeding from thence."" The mind... | |
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For the thoughts are to the desires, as scouts, and spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things desired... 
