 | Robert George Geale - 1925 - 184 páginas
...ERRORS. DECEMBER, 1923. " As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths ; and their discourses are as the stars which give little light because they are so high." — FRANCIS BACON. POLITICAL economy has been denned as " the study of mankind in the ordinary business... | |
 | Alexander Pearce Higgins - 1928 - 332 páginas
...avoid the danger he indicates in that "philosophers make imaginary laws for .imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high."1 Let us follow the advice which he gives and turn to statesmen and diplomatists who have to... | |
 | John William Allen - 1644 - 700 páginas
...and never as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live, what is received law and not what... | |
 | 1994 - 412 páginas
...none as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths ; and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live, what is received law, and not... | |
 | Jackson W. Carroll - 1991 - 246 páginas
...commonwealths; and their discourses *I deal with this latter aspect of reflective leadership in chapter 7. are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high" (quoted by Wood 1985, 64f.). Denominational executives and laity sometimes voice similar complaints... | |
 | Harvey Flaumenhaft - 1992 - 340 páginas
...and none as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live, what is received law, and not... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 páginas
...and none as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live what is received law, and not what... | |
 | Thomas V. Morris - 1994 - 298 páginas
...academic world and the world at large. Francis Bacon once said of some of the intellectuals of his time: Their discourses are as the stars which give little light, because they are so high. In this book, we have gathered a group of philosophers capable of the highest flights of intricate... | |
 | Ernest L. Fortin - 1996 - 378 páginas
...Learning, book 2, c. fin.: "As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high." The argument was first made by Machiavelli, who writes in ch. 15 of The Prince, the manifesto of the new... | |
 | Ernest L. Fortin - 1996 - 442 páginas
...Advancement of Learning: "As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high."5 All of these texts point to Machiavelli's "realism" or anti-utopianism as the heart of the... | |
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As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. 
