| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 sidor
...attempt it as far as my plan will admit. He observes in his introduction : Nature (the art whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this a^o imitated, that it can make an artificial animal : for seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the... | |
| 1853 - 454 sidor
...word dilemma. In the introduction the author gives the key to the allegory : " Nature, the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the art...artificial animal. For seeing life is but a motion of the limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within ; why may we not say, that all automata... | |
| 1854 - 492 sidor
...commences with a description of the means whereby the body politic is constructed. Nature, the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the art...also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal. Art goes yet farther in imitating that rational and most excellent work of Nature — man. For by art... | |
| Charles Bradlaugh, Anthony Collins, John Watts - 1871 - 360 sidor
...and the dreams of the sophists (priests.) We give part of the introduction. " Nature (the art whereby God hath made and governs the world) is, by the art of man, as in many other thin™.«, so in this also, imitated, that it can make an artificial animal. For seeing life is but... | |
| 1885 - 930 sidor
...the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the art ofinin, as in many other things, in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial...animal. For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, Ihe beginning whereof is in the principal part within ; why may we not say, that all automata (engines... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - 942 sidor
...of Hobbes, who opens his work on the Commonwealth with these words : — " Nature, the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the art of man, as in many other things, in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal. For seeing life is but a motion of limbs,... | |
| Francis William Coker - 1910 - 224 sidor
...sense in which Hobbes would combine these seemingly incompatible concepts. Nature, the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the art...artificial animal. For seeing life is but a motion of the limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all automata... | |
| Francis William Coker - 1910 - 290 sidor
...incompatible concepts. r Nature, the f world, is by tl . , — art whereby God hath made and governs the the art of man, as in many other things, so in this...artificial animal. For seeing life is but a motion of the limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all automata... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1924 - 288 sidor
...echo of Hobbes, who opens his work on the commonwealth with these words : " ' Nature, the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the art of man, as in many other things, in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal. For seeing life is but a motion of limbs,... | |
| James Harrington - 1924 - 412 sidor
...of nature" etc. Cf. Hobbes, Leviathan (Introd.): "Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governes the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other...imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal." P. 207. "Cicero in his Book De Divinatione." Cf . particularly II. 54—57 (117: "evanuisse aiunt vetustate... | |
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