 | Samuel Dickson - 1838 - 248 páginas
...be called by one name or another. In the language of Hobbes—" Words are wise men's counters—they do but reckon by them, but they are the money of fools...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatsoever." It is surely full time that disputes about the nature... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1839 - 320 páginas
...amenable to the same treatment, should be called by one name or another. In the language of Hobbes, " words are wise men's counters, — they do but reckon...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatsoever." We are told by the ingenious John Brown that he... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 718 páginas
...between true science and erroneous doctrine, CHAP. ignorance is in the middle. Words are wise men's IL counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools." * 127. "The names of such things as affect us, fames dif• ' ' ferently imthat is, which please and... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 810 páginas
...true science and erroneous doctrine, ignorance is in the middle. Words are wise men's counters, thy do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools («). " 127. " The names of such things as affect us, that is, which please and displease us, because... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1843 - 56 páginas
...same individual who lately told his readers that the Unity of Disease was a silly book. If it was so * Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatever. —Honors. silly, as he says, why was he so silly as... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1845 - 216 páginas
...be called by one name or another. In the language of Hobbes, "words are wise men's counters,—they do but reckon by them, but they are the money of fools,...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatsoever." More than twenty-three centuries have elapsed since... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1850 - 230 páginas
...amenable to the same treatment, should be called by one name or another. In the language of Hobbes, " words are wise men's counters, — they do but reckon...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatsoever." More than twenty-three centuries have elapsed since... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1854 - 620 páginas
...science are above it. For between true science and erroneous doctrine, ignorance is in the middle. Words are wise men's counters — they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools." p 127. " The names of such things as affect us, that is, Namc«dif. which please and displease us,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...that are accompanied with noble thoughts. THOMAS HOBBES. 1588-1679. The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. 4. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools. FRANCIS BACON. 1561-1626. Essay viii. Of Marriage and Single Life. He that hath a wife and children... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 846 páginas
...admirable observations on language, and with quoting, for the hundredth time, his weighty aphorism, "Words are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools." No attempt is here made to do full justice to Hobbes; no notice can be taken of the speculations which... | |
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For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them : but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatsoever. 
