 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 páginas
...picking up the courtier's money, walked off, with the remark, " A fool and his money are soon parted." Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools,—HOBBES: Leviathan, Part I., ch. iv.; which is to say, in the words of Demaratus, King of Sparta,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 páginas
...thoughts be measured by our tongues. Colton. Words are women, deeds are men. — George Herbert. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools. — Thomas Hobbes. Words are but lackeys to sense, and will dance attendance without wages or compulsion.... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 páginas
...Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung. p. FIRDOUSI — Auvari Suhaili. Eastwick's trans. For 43. Whoe'er q. THOMAS HOBBES — The Leviathan. Pt. I. Ch. IV. Sc. 15. There is no point where art so nearly touches... | |
 | Alexander Whyte - 1896 - 332 páginas
...instruments, and our carriages shall run away with us continually. ' Words are wise men's counters ; wise men do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools.' To prove that and to illustrate that, I had collected and arranged a table of wise men's counters and... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 356 páginas
...Sincerity.' See also p. 91. PAGE 81. Words are like money. Cf. the metaphor in Hobbes's Leviathan, I. iv., "Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools. " PAGE 83. Motto. Virgil, jKn. i. 320-1. No, 104, — Tully says, De O^iciis, I. xxvii. — The Spectator... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 páginas
...abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." POPE. Essay on Criticism, Pt. II., U2e 3°9. " Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them : but they are the money of fools." T. HoBBES. The Leviathan, Pt. I., Can. IV. " Words are women, deeds are men." HERBERT. Jacula Prudentum.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1897 - 448 páginas
...Devita &c., I Timothy vi. 20. P. 9, 11. 100 — 1. meaning... meaning. To the same purport Hobbes says, 'Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them, but they are the money of fools.' (Leviathan, \. 4.) The words 'right,' 'law,' 'value of money,' 'theory,' 'church,' are instances in... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1898 - 408 páginas
...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 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,... | |
 | Thomas Hunter - 1900 - 138 páginas
...ideas plays in memory. Hobbes is the author of some trenchant sayings, among which is the oft-quoted aphorism : "Words are wise men's counters ; they do...reckon by them: but they are the money of fools." ' ' LOCKE. John Locke (1632-1704), probably the most widely read and most popular of writers on philosophical... | |
 | Nathan Christ Schaeffer - 1900 - 360 páginas
...to the letter. HERBERT SPENCER. Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. JOHNSON. For words are wise men's counters, — they do but reckon by them, — but they are the money of fools. HOBBES. It is only by the help of language (or some other equivalent set of signs) that we can think... | |
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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. 
