 | Definitions - 1881 - Страниц: 160
...destinies of mankind." Hargrave. — » — "Are women, DEEDS are men." George Herbert. "SVords — " Are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools." Hobbes. " Are the daughters of earth, and THINGS are the sons of heaven." Dr. Madden. — "Are like... | |
 | William Mathews - 1882 - Страниц: 406
...find himself entangled in words as a bird in limetwigs, — the more he struggles, the more belimed. 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, or any other doctor whatsoever."... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - Страниц: 302
...writer on politics and moral philosophy. Author of The Leviathan and Translations of Homer in Verse. For words are wise men's counters : they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools. The Leviathan. Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667).— The greatest theological writer of the English Church... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - Страниц: 942
...these days New Lords may give us new laws. Contented Afan'i 3/o'n'ce. THOMAS HOBBES. 1588-1679. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools. The Leviathan. Part i. C*. 4. And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Ck. 13.... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1884 - Страниц: 154
...we can learn what is helpful for us in the onward and upward path. ' Words,' says Thomas Hobbes, ' are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools.' The proverb truly says, 'Show me your friends, and I will tell you what you are.' Better no companions... | |
 | Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - Страниц: 604
...which Hobbes had of the all-important question of the scope of language is intimated by his famous aphorism : " Words are wise men's counters ; they...reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools." This shows that he had studied out the great truth that language springs from action, and that thought... | |
 | Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - Страниц: 602
...which Hobbes had of the all-important question of the scope of language is intimated by his famous aphorism : " Words are wise men's counters ; they...reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools." This shows that he had studied out the great truth that language springs from action, and that thought... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - Страниц: 530
...wise, or unless his memory be hurt by disease or ill constitution of organs, excellently foolish. 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, or a Thomas,16 or any other doctor whatsoever,... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1885 - Страниц: 396
...acquisition of science " (p. 24) ; and he concludes his discussion with the weighty apophthegm, that " 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, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever,... | |
 | David Perkins Page - 1885 - Страниц: 442
...confound words with ideas, but will teach the art of interpreting language. " Words," says Hobbes, " are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon by them : but they are the money of fools." (Leviathan, Chap. IV.) The assumption, sometimes made, that instruction by word of mouth is necessarily... | |
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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, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man. 
