 | Johannes Colerus - 1706 - 122 pagina’s
...one might eafily know by his Looks that he was defcended from Portuguefe Jews. As for his Cloaths, he was very carelefs of 'em, and they were not better...in his way of living his Converfation was alfo very fweet and eafy. He knew admirably well how to be mafter of his Paffions : He wa never feen very melancholy,... | |
 | Johannes Colerus - 1706 - 120 pagina’s
...Spinofa anfwer'd him, that a Man was never the better for having a finer Gown. To which he added, It is unreafonable to wrap up things of little or no value in a precious Cover. His Manners* his Converfation, and his Unintereftednefs. If he was very frugal in his way of living... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1880 - 524 pagina’s
...him, that a Man was never the better for having a finer Gown. To which he added, // is unreasonable to wrap up things of little or no value in a precious Cover. 1 His Manners, his Conversation, and his Uninterested-ness . IF he was very frugal in his way of living,... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1880 - 538 pagina’s
...him, that a Man was never the better for having a finer Gown. To which he added, // is unreasonable to wrap up things of little or no value in a precious Covert His Manners, his Conversation, and his Uninterestedness. IF he was very frugal in his way of... | |
 | Johannes COLERUS (Lutheran Minister at Amsterdam.) - 1706 - 122 pagina’s
...Spinofa anfwer'd him, that a Man was never the better for having a finer Gown. To which he added, It is unreafonable to wrap up things of little or no...in his way of living his Converfation was alfo very fweet and eafy. He knew admirably well how to be mafter of his Paffions: He wa never feen very melancholy,... | |
 | Benedictus de Spinoza - 1910 - 394 pagina’s
...Spinoza replied that " a man is not made better by having a finer gown," and that "it is unreasonable to wrap up things of little or no value in a precious cover " (see Pollock's Spinoza, 2nd ed. p. 394). The two accounts are not necessarily incompatible. CHAPTER... | |
 | Lewis Samuel Feuer - 1987 - 358 pagina’s
...answer'd him, that a Man was never better for having a finer Gown. To which he added, It is unreasonable to wrap up things of little or no value in a precious Cover." 60 This story may be apocryphal, but what is noteworthy is that it coincides exactly with the Collegiant... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 pagina’s
...Spinoza answered that a man was never the better for having a fine gown, and added, 'It is unreasonable to wrap up things of little or no value in a precious cover.' "13 Spinoza's sartorial philosophy was not always so ascetic. "It is not a disorderly or slovenly carriage... | |
 | Genevieve Lloyd - 1996 - 182 pagina’s
...as careless in dress, to the point of slovenliness, quoting him as saying that 'it is unreasonable to wrap up things of little or no value in a precious Cover' (Pollock 1899: 394). Whatever the facts of his appearance, we can take it that Spinoza was not motivated... | |
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Citizen. One of the moft eminent Councellors of State went to fee him, and found him in a very fiovenly Morning-Gown, whereupon the Councellor blam'd him for it, and offer'd him another. Spinofa anfwer'd him, that a Man was never the better for having... 