...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,...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...