 | Alfred Lyall - 1830 - 682 sivua
...possible without letters for any man to become either excellently wise or excellently foolish. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them ; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, or Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever,... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1867 - 650 sivua
...less strong than if you call it a constitution or a league or an agreement. Thomas Hobbes has said, " Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them ; but they are the money of fools." I now proceed to consider the condition of the rebellious States with reference to the general government.... | |
 | 1869 - 1062 sivua
...informed the world the other day, that during one of Mr. Gladstone's election tours in Lancashire 60,000 of his words had been telegraphed to their office....repeat: " Words are wise men's counters — they do hut reckon with them; but they are the money of fools ; " and it is not difficult to imagine the sort... | |
 | Perkins School for the Blind - 1872 - 762 sivua
...Words can never convey clear ideas unless the things they represent are known. " Words," said Hobbes, " are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon with them ; but they are the money of fools." This mode of procedure leads to observation, and opens the sources of information. It calls into exercise... | |
 | 1882 - 866 sivua
...of the rhetorician and the sophist, and who does not know, what Thomas Hobbes knew во well, that " WORDS are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon with them ; but they are the money of fools ; " fancies that he can loose the dogs of anarchy, and then whistle them back at his pleasure. ЛУШ... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 378 sivua
...his web in the solitude of his closet, and who does not know, what Thomas Hobbes knew so well, that " WORDS are wise men's counters; they do but reckon with them; but they are the money of fools;" fancies that we can loose the dogs of anarchy, and then whistle them back at our pleasure. Will they... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 374 sivua
...his web in the solitude of his closet, and who does not know, what Thomas Hobbes knew so well, that " WORDS are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon with them ; but they are the money of fools ; " fancies that we can loose the dogs of anarchy, and then whistle them back at our pleasure. Will... | |
 | 1885 - 906 sivua
...everlasting hills 'the fading politics of mortal Rome ' are severely excluded. But Hobbes' text — ' Words are wise men's counters — they do but reckon with them ; but they are the money of fools ' — belongs to no party in particular ; and in a garrulous age Tory and Radical alike may lay it... | |
 | John Lancaster Spalding - 1894 - 244 sivua
...this : Study things rather than words, which are but the symbols of things. " Words," says Hobbes, " are wise men's counters, — they do but reckon with them, — but they are the money of fools." The animal hardly distinguishes between itself and the external world, and the thoroughly conscious... | |
 | 1897 - 488 sivua
...argument from design — seems to me a mere trifling with words, and recalls the old saying that " words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them ; but they are the money of " metaphysicians. Professor Schiller must know perfectly well that the " denial of design" is merely... | |
| |
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them: but they are the money of fools... 
