 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - Idealism - 1885 - 396 pages
...in lime-twigs — the more he struggles the more belimed " (p. 28). He tells us "that in the riyht definition of names lies the first use of speech, which is the acquisition of science " (p. 24) ; and he concludes his discussion with the weighty apophthegm, that " words are wise men's... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1886 - 328 pages
...a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definiiion of names lies the first use of speech ; which is the...their instruction from the authority of books, and not from their own meditation, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men endued with true... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1887 - 426 pages
...without reckoning anew from the beginning, in which lies the foundation of their errors." " So that in the right definition of names lies the first use...false and senseless tenets ; which make those men which take their instruction from the authority of books, and not from their own meditation, to be... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...flutter at the false fight of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names lies the first use...their instruction from the authority of books, and not from their own meditation, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men endued with true... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1896 - 778 pages
...thinkers since the days of Bacon (dwelt npon the importance of true conceptions. Thus Hobbes \— " In the right definition of names lies the first use of speech, i ia the acquisition of science. And in wrong or no definitions, acs the first abuse from which proceed... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Ethics - 1898 - 408 pages
...flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names lies the first use...their instruction from the authority of books, and not from their own meditation, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men endued with true... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1904 - 632 pages
...at the false light of a glass -window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names, lies the first use...proceed all false and senseless tenets ; which make them that take their instruction from the authority of books and not from their own meditations, to... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Christianity - 1903 - 444 pages
...flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names lies the first use...their instruction from the authority of books, and not from their own meditation, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men endued with true... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1904 - 636 pages
...flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names, lies the first use...which is the acquisition of science, and in wrong or -o definitions lies the first abuse, from which proceed all false and senseless tenets ; which make... | |
 | René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1910 - 436 pages
...flutter at the false light of a glass window for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names lies the first use...their instruction from the authority of books and not from their own meditation to be as much below the condition of ignorant men as men endued with true... | |
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... which make those men that take their instruction from the authority of books and not from their own meditation to be as much below the condition of ignorant men as men endued with true science are above it. 
