My mother, while not in the popular sense an educated woman, having but a common-school education, had, as the philosopher hobbes termed it, a large amount of "round-about common-sense."
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
For the widely democratic appeal of the Elizabethan translator was substituted an appeal to a class, distinguished, if one may believe the philosopher hobbes, as much by social position as by intellect.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
In discussing the vocabulary to be employed by the translator, hobbes professes opinions not unlike those of the sixteenth-century critics.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos