On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 17:48:02 +0200
Alessandro Selli <alessandrose...@linux.com> wrote:
> >> People were happy even before the steam engine was invented.
> > 'solitary,
> Do you think so?
> > poor,
> It depends; when the wealthiest individuals where those who could afford a
> horse, wealth was more evently distributed than today. Or do you think they
> felt poor because they could not have a PC?
> > nasty,
> Maybe, some of them.
> > brutish,
> Maybe, some of them.
> > and short' come to mind
> Oh dear, were they really *short*? Jeez, how happy I am not to have lived
> in those awful times!
All those adjectives, which come from a quote of Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679)
refer not to people, but to their lives in preceding ages...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Gli nomini si debbano o vezzeggiate o peguere;
perche' si vendiciano delle leggieri offese,
delle gravi non possono.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
-- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --
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