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 -- _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng