 | Samuel Dickson - 1850 - 230 ページ
...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...the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatsoever." More than twenty-three centuries have elapsed since Hippocrates... | |
 | 1854 - 492 ページ
...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...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a mdn.l When a man upon the hearing of any speech... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | Kuno Fischer - 1857 - 544 ページ
...and these are nothing but conventional expedients for mutual intercourse. " Words," says Hobbes, " are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas (Aquinas)."* Thinking is judging; judgments are propositions ; propositions consist of... | |
 | Ernst Kuno B. Fischer - 1857 - 540 ページ
...are nothing but conventional expedients for mutual intercourse. " Words," says Hobbes, " are wise EE men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas (Aquinas)."* Thinking is judging; judgments are propositions; propositions consist of words;... | |
 | Kuno Fischer - 1857 - 492 ページ
...solved. Bacon wished to be silent on the subject of politics ; and religion, according to him, was to men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas (Aquinas)."* Thinking is judging; judgments are propositions; propositions consist of words;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 ページ
...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...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas,2 or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man. 2. NATURAL STATE OF MAN ONE OF WAR. ("... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 ページ
...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...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas,2 or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man. 2. NATURAL STATE OF MAN ONE OF WAR. ("... | |
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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. 
