 | William Hazlitt - Authors, English - 1836 - 538 pages
...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, a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatsoever. " Subject to names is whatsoever can enter into,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 pages
...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, a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatsoever. " Subject to names is whatsoever can enter into,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...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, a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatsoever. " Subject to names is whatsoever can enter into,... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - Diseases - 1838 - 248 pages
...be called by one name or another. In the language of Hobbes—" Words are wise men's counters—they do but reckon by them, but they are the money of fools...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatsoever." It is surely full time that disputes about the nature... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...wise, or, unless his memoYy be hurt by disease or ill constitution of organs, excellently foolish. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon...Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man. Subject to names, is whatsoever can enter into Fllhject to ** r 1,11_ ^ or be considered... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1839 - 744 pages
...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...Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man. Subject to names, is whatsoever can enter into s^ect to i-ii- ii iii or be considered... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1839 - 320 pages
...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...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatsoever." We are told by the ingenious John Brown that he... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 718 pages
...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 - Europe - 1839 - 810 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1843 - 56 pages
...same individual who lately told his readers that the Unity of Disease was a silly book. If it was so * Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatever. —Honors. silly, as he says, why was he so silly as... | |
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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. 
