 | 1795 - 486 ページ
...wade through the blood of other pctfons to their own power. '• Words are the counters ef wife men, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fnols, that value them by the authority of Cieero, Arif« 'otic, and Thomas Aquinas." ANTHONY EARL... | |
 | Alfred Lyall - 1830 - 682 ページ
...than ordinary. Nor is it possible without letters for any man to become either excellently wise or excellently foolish. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them ; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, or Cicero,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 718 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1854 - 620 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1860 - 814 ページ
...names. But, though he thus accepted the extreme results of nominalism, he wrote the weighty aphorism : " Words are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools." The ethics of Hobbes follow necessarily from his metaphysics. If every thought is but a compound of... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 ページ
...your wit for fear it should get blunted. The Little Ggpsg. (La Gitanilla.) 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. Ch. 4. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1866 - 784 ページ
...meditation, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men as those endued with true science are above it. Words are wise men's counters: they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools." ARTICLE II.— DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN CONNECTICUT. Is Christian marriage recognized and protected by... | |
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For words are wise men's counters — they do but reckon by them — but they are the money of fools... 
