 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 ページ
...us in these days New Lords may give us new laws. Contented Man's Morrice. 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 \. Ch. 4. And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short Ibid. Ch.... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1875 - 646 ページ
...currency. So Hobbes, "The Leviathan," Pt. 1. c. 4 : — "For words are wise men's counters — thej do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools." THE RESULT OF KNOWING HOW то BRING MODERATE ABILITIES INTO PLAY. (clxii.) L'art de savoir bien mettre... | |
 | 1877 - 362 ページ
...of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : "It might have been ! " JG Wn ITT IER, Maitd Muller. — For WORDS are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools. T. HORRES, The Lenathan, pt. L ch. 4. — Good WORDS are better than bad strokes. SHAKESPERE, Jiiiivt... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1877 - 508 ページ
...representing anything not subject to sense." We might quote against him his own pithy aphorism, — " Words are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon by them ; but they are the mouoy of fools." %f CHAPTER IX. VT BERKELEYANISM. PERHAPS the only fruitful and important truth in... | |
 | Sir Charles Waldstein - 1878 - 280 ページ
...said to understand it ; understanding being nothing else but conception formed by speech.' . . . ' Words are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools.' 1 Hobbes is thoroughly nominalistic. Reasoning to him is nothing more than computation of these signs,... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 ページ
...WORDS of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : "It might have been ! " JG WHITTIER, Maud Muller. — For WORDS are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them j but they are the money of fools. T. HOBBES, The Lemathan, pt. i. ch. 4. — Good WORDS are better... | |
 | Walter Lewin - 1880 - 368 ページ
...it. There is no necessity to muddle it with unmeaning words or metaphors. " Words," said Hobbes, " are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools." Such then being our estimate of the ontology of Kant, what has he done to warrant our regarding him... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 ページ
...speech, and especially the art of strict definition of words, is the first necessity of Philosophy. " For words are wise men's counters, — they do but " reckon by them; but they arc the money of fools, that value " them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas.... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 ページ
...memory be hurt by disease or ill constitution of organs, excellently foolish. For words are vrisc nien'i counters, — they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money affooLt, that value them by the authority of an Aristctle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor... | |
 | Definitions - 1881 - 160 ページ
...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... | |
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For words are wise men's counters — they do but reckon by them — but they are the money of fools... 
