 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...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 of litigious terms, fat contentions, an that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever,... | |
 | William Mathews - 1876 - 474 páginas
...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, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, .a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever."... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1877 - 504 páginas
...have no thought representing anything not subject to sense." We might quote against him his own pithy aphorism, —" Words are wise men's counters ; they...reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools." CHAPTER IX. BEKKELEYANISM. PERHAPS the only fruitful and important truth in Psychology which we may... | |
 | 1877 - 362 páginas
...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 páginas
...have no thought 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 páginas
...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,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1880 - 804 páginas
...— ' When a man upon the hearing of any speech hath those thoughts which the words of that speech in their connection were ordained and constituted to...fools.' No attempt is here made to do full justice to Hobbea ; no notice can be taken of the speculations which made him famous. Our object has been fulfilled... | |
 | Walter Lewin - 1880 - 368 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
