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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Literary Period:
"Civil War and Commonwealth"
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"Early Modern"
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"Early Seventeenth Century"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Religion of Author:
"Materialist or Mortalist"
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Work title:
"Leviathan"
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Metaphor Category:
"Money"
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Date: 1651, 1668
"The Latins called accounts of money rationes, and accounting ratiocinatio; and that which we in bills or books of account call items, they call nomina, that is names; and thence it seems to proceed, that they extended the word ratio to the faculty of reckoning in all other things."
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Date: 1651, 1668
"For words are wise mens counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the mony of fooles, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other Doctor whatsoever, if but a man."
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)