 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...excellently1 wise, or, unless his memory be hurt by disease or ill constitution of organs, excellently foolish. For words are wise men's counters, — they...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. (" LEVIATHAN,"... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...excellently1 wise, or, unless his memory be hurt by disease or ill constitution of organs, excellently foolish. For words are wise men's counters, — they...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. (" LEVIATHAN,"... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1860 - 814 pages
...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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...excellently 1 wise, or, unless his memory be hurt by disease or ill constitution of organs, excellently foolish. For words are wise men's counters — they...them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas,2 or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man. 1 Extraordinarily. 5 Thomas Aquinas. LATTGHTER... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...stood fix'd to hear ; Then, as new- waked, thus gratefully replied. Paradise Lost, Book Vill. WORDS. WORDS are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools. HOBBES. THE greater are the alterations and improvements which happen in the manners of a people, the... | |
 | 1867 - 902 pages
...Memory he calls " a decaying sense." His remark about words has long been famous. " Words," he says, " are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools." He also illustrates most happily the oft-repeated truth, that in order to form a just judgment of our... | |
 | 1868 - 784 pages
...lime-twigs — the more he struggles the more belimed ;" adding, in the same passage, this caution : " Words are wise men's counters — they do but reckon...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, a Thomas [&. Kempis], or any other doctor whatsoever." EITHER is a singular word. It means, and from... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...(remarkably) wise, or unless his memory be hurt by disease or ill constitution of organs, excellently (remarkably) foolish. For words are wise men's counters...they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money (minted coin) of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, (1) Tenet, fr. Lat. tenere,... | |
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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, a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatsoever. 
