After a brief time at the grammar school of Colmar, he went to Strasbourg in 1651, where he devoted himself to the study of philology, history and philosophy, and won his degree of master ( 1653 ) by a disputation against the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.

He occupied himself in meditating upon what he had read in the works of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes, and mentally constructed a system of universal law.

After lengthy discussion with Hobbes, the Parisian Abraham Bosse created the etching for the book's famous frontispiece in the geometrico style which Bosse himself had refined.

) In his old age, the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes convinced himself that he had succeeded in squaring the circle.

This was seen as an " incredible " paradox by many at the time ( including Torricelli himself, who tried several alternative proofs ), and prompted a fierce controversy about the nature of infinity, involving the philosopher Hobbes.

Whether that sovereign is an absolute monarch or other form was left open to debate, however Hobbes himself viewed the absolute monarch as the best of all options.

Strauss argued that Locke only distanced himself from Hobbes rhetorically, in order to make his system more publicly acceptable.

Hobbes locates Milano's daughter, Gretta ( Embeth Davidtz ), who explains that her father was framed for corruption and killed himself to avoid his eventual conviction.

Azazel sneaks into Hobbes ' home overnight by possessing his brother Art to make him commit suicide by injecting himself with poison.

Jonesy suddenly shoots Stanton, revealing himself to be possessed by Azazel, and then chases Hobbes into the cabin.

Cartoonist Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes bridges into hypostasis in 1992 when Calvin, a cartoon, draws a cartoon of himself and then criticizes his own lack of ability to draw.

Hobbes said :" The Latines called Accounts of mony Rationes ... and thence it seems to proceed that they extended the word Ratio, to the faculty of Reckoning in all other things .... When a man reasoneth hee does nothing else but conceive a summe totall ... For Reason ... is nothing but Reckoning ... of the consequences of generall names agreed upon, for the marking and signifying of our thoughts ...."

His syndicate, which has since become Universal Uclick, has said that the painting was the first new artwork from Watterson that the syndicate has seen since Calvin and Hobbes ended in 1995.

Thomas Hobbes famously said that in a " state of nature " human life would be " solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ".

It had an immediate and far-reaching influence on Harvey's contemporaries ; Thomas Hobbes said that Harvey was the only modern author whose doctrines were taught in his lifetime.

The preface to the posthumous Historia Ecclesiastica ( 1688 ) of Thomas Hobbes is said to have been by Rymer, but the Life of Hobbes ( 1681 ) sometimes ascribed to him was written by Richard Blackburne.

That being said, it is important to recognize that Hobbes allowed for individuals to maintain their own religious beliefs as long as they outwardly expressed those of the state.

Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.

Waddell had heard that he had been a commando in Rommel's Afrika Corps, and he said to himself: I'd hate to run into him in the desert on a dark night.

He himself did not know, as he said in 1935.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

Blackman said that he wanted to apologize for not having prevented Lewis from making that horrible spectacle of himself, that he should have seized him by the neck at once and forcibly hauled him into his bedroom.

Gov. John M. Dalton, himself a lawyer and a man of long service in government, spoke with rich background and experience when he said in an address here that lawyers ought to quit sitting in the Missouri General Assembly, or quit accepting fees from individuals and corporations who have controversies with or axes to grind with the government and who are retained, not because of their legal talents, but because of their government influence.

In addition, he said, he has answered more than 400 messages of congratulations which led him to the comment that he himself had decided he wouldn't send another congratulatory message for the rest of his life.

`` I soon came back to my senses '', he said, aloud, to the young blizzard, proudly, drawing himself up, as if making a report to some important superior.

`` Lookit that come down, willya '', said the man, scratching himself, yawning.

I hate Warsaw, he said to himself.

`` Unless the oyabun has been working on it '', he said, then checked himself and added: `` You can tell Kayabashi-san that the back road is in very good condition and will be quite safe for his party to use ''.

`` I've never done this before '', she said later, when he was arranging himself to leave.

), had listed himself for Mormon Beard roles at the instigation of his fourth murder victim who had said: `` With your beard, dear, you ought to be in movies ''!!

The soldiers are fighting and the Americans are helping, he said, but in the fight against the Pathet Lao the key factor is the villager himself.

Always provided that Lucien himself had not dosed her coffee with opium, she thought, as coldly and sharply, again, as Maude might have said it.

Why, Holden said to himself, surprised at his own sudden insight, I'll bet some of those people who enter are just as happy as can be.

However likely it was, Pauling said, he couldn't limit himself to it.

Really, he said to himself, nobody kills a man just as a favor!!

Thompson himself said: `` I want to enjoy once more the pleasure of bare walls waiting for new pictures ''.

`` God doesn't have any appliance or cosmetics '', he said heatedly before he caught himself.

`` You know '', he said, getting a grip on himself, `` I think you're going to have to excuse me.

`` And your golden god '', said Samuel Burns, `` probably went right home and poured himself into a boiling bath.

In the time of Augustus, who considered himself under the special protection of Apollo and was even said to be his son, his worship developed and he became one of the chief gods of Rome.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

In 1886, Jules Marcou said Vespucci renamed himself from Alberigo Vespucci ( Albericus Vespucius ) to Amerigo Vespucci after meeting the native inhabitants of the eponymous Amerrique mountain ranges of Nicaragua that connect North America and South America, an important geographic feature of New World maps and charts.