 | Thomas Hobbes - 2008 - 516 pages
...what they think they have read in men, by uncharitable censures of one another behind their backs. But there is another saying not of late understood,...to read one another, if they would take the pains; that is, nosce teipsum, read thyself: which was not meant, as it is now used, to countenance, either... | |
 | Mary Poovey - 1998 - 450 pages
...sense, or self-evident truth, There is another saying not of late understood, by which [men] might learu truly to read one another, if they would take the pains; and that is, Nosce teipsum. Read thyseif: which was not meant, as it is now used, to countenance, either the barbarous stare of men... | |
 | Jason A. Frank, John Tambornino - 368 pages
...theoretical task as a lexicographical one: He proposes to provide a lexicon that will enable individuals to "learn truly to read one another, if they would take the pains" (L, Intro., 82). In elaborating upon his project, he explains that the popular but frequently misunderstood... | |
 | James Mill - 2001 - 460 pages
...what they think they have read in men, by uncharitable censures of one another behind their backs. But there is another saying not of late understood,...inferiors ; or to encourage men of low degree, to a sawcie behaviour towards their betters ; but to teach us, that for the similitude of the thoughts,... | |
 | Amélie Oksenberg Rorty - 2003 - 544 pages
...what they think they have read in men, by uncharitable censures of one another behind their backs. But there is another saying not of late understood,...would take the pains; and that is, nosce teipsum, read thy self, which was not meant, as it is now used, to countenance either the barbarous state of men... | |
 | Elizabeth Spiller - 2004 - 232 pages
...a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men . . . But there is another saying not of late understood,...another, if they would take the pains; and that is, Nose e teipsum. Read thy self (p. 82). More than sententious commonplace, Hobbes's privileging of self-knowledge... | |
 | Victoria Kahn - 2009 - 392 pages
...implied contract with the reader: [T]here is ... [a] saying not of late understood, by which [men] might learn truly to read one another, if they would take the pains; and that is, Nosce teipsum, Read thy self: which was not meant, as it is now used, to countenance, either the barbarous state of men... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 2005 - 404 pages
...show what they think they have read in men by uncharitable censures of one another behind their backs. But there is another saying, not of late understood,...another, if they would take the pains; and that is nasce teipsum, read thyself, which was not meant, as it is now used, to countenance either the barbarous... | |
 | Davide Panagia - 2006 - 188 pages
...introduction: But there is another saying not of late understood . . . Nosce teipsum, Read thy self: which was not meant, as it is now used, to countenance,...inferiors: or to encourage men of low degree, to a sawcie behaviour towards their betters; But to teach us, that for the similitude of the thoughts, and... | |
 | Christopher D'Addario - 2007 - 127 pages
...and a classical saying in an effort to teach the reader their correct meanings. The Socratic maxim "was not meant, as it is now used, to countenance,...inferiors; or to encourage men of low degree, to a sawcie behaviour towards their better; But to teach us" that all humans have similar passions (L 10).... | |
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