 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Hunting. And I oft have heard defended Little said is soonest mended. ibid. 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. And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. ibid.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...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 - Quotations, French - 1875 - 646 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...wise, or, unless his memory be hurt by disease or ill constitution of organs, excellently foolish. For r taught them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts...with souls so unprincipled in virtue and true gener if but a man. JAMES HARRINGTON. JAMES HARRINGTON (1611-1677) was a native of Northamptonshire. He studied... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 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.—Leviathan. 7. Liberty. THE liberty of subjects consists not in being exempt from the... | |
 | William Mathews - English language - 1876 - 474 pages
...in limetwigs, — the more he struggles, the more beliined. Words are wise men's counters, — thej do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools,...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, .a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever." Fuller quaintly suggests that the reason why the Schoolmen... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...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 - Philosophy, Modern - 1877 - 508 pages
...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 - Philosophy - 1878 - 280 pages
...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 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...authority of an Aristotle, "a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any othejr doctor whatsoever, if but a mail. JAMES HARRINGTON. JAMES HARRINGTON (1611-1677) was a native... | |
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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. 
