"Post hoc" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... circumstances is a sound conception. (4) That the arts and sciences which receive payment are likewise to be comprehended under the notion of wealth, also touches a question of modern political economy. (5) The distinction of post hoc and propter hoc, often lost sight of in modern as well as in ancient times. These metaphysical conceptions and distinctions show considerable power of thought in the writer, whatever we may think of his merits as ...
— Eryxias • An Imitator of Plato
... Post hoc proelium Creon rex, tanta victoria laetus, filiam suam Herculi in matrimonium dedit. Thebis Hercules cum uxore sua diu vivebat et ab omnibus magnopere amabatur; sed post multos annos subito [1]in furorem incidit et ipse sua manu liberos suos interfecit. Post breve tempus ...
— Latin for Beginners • Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge
... "Post hoc non propter hoc" is an excellent maxim, but one that never seems to enter the missionary head down here. Highly disgusted and pained at his pupils' goings-on, but absolutely convinced of the excellence of his own methods of instruction, and the spiritual ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley
... tamen ut si vir cl. M. Mller, M.A., hodie linguarum modernarum Europ professor Taylorianus, eam professionem intra mensem post hoc statutum sancitum resignaverit, seque professoris philologi comparativ munus suscipere paratum esse scripto Vice-Cancellarium certiorem ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller |
