 But yet if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas,...  Scientific Method: Its Philosophy and Its Practice - Page 132by Frederic William Westaway - 1912 - 439 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pages
...Human Understanding, bk III, ch. 10, para. 34, p. 508. He continued that 'all the Art of Rhetorick' is 'for nothing else but to insinuate wrong Ideas, move the Passions, and thereby mislead the Judgement'. Peter Walmsley, 'Prince Maurice's Rational Parrot' (1995) brings out Locke's distrust of... | |
 | Steve Moyise - 2002 - 230 pages
...his Essay Concerning Human Understanding: [I]f we would speak of things as they are, we must allow all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move... | |
 | Craig G. Bartholomew, Colin J. D. Greene, Karl M Ller - 2001 - 472 pages
...his Essay Concerning Human Understanding: [I]f we would speak of things as they are, we must allow all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move... | |
 | Dan R. Stiver - 2001 - 284 pages
...Johnson (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981). speak of things as they are, we allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness; all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move... | |
 | Quentin Skinner - 2002 - 518 pages
...'all the Art of Rhetorick, besides Order and Clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of Words Eloquence hath invented, are for nothing...Ideas, move the Passions, and thereby mislead the Judgment'.'3 Summing up the general view, Sprat similarly declares in his History that eloquence is... | |
 | Diana Tietjens Meyers - 2002 - 245 pages
...art of rhetorick [sic], besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing...wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead judgment . . . eloquence, like the fair sex. has too prevailing beauties in it to suffer itself ever... | |
 | Quentin Skinner - 2002 - 518 pages
...Rhetorick. besides Order and Clearness all the artificial and figurative application of Words Eloquence hat invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong...move the Passions, and thereby mislead the Judgment'. ':i Summing up the general view, Sprat similarly declares in his History that eloquence is 'fatal to... | |
 | Arthur Efland - 2002 - 215 pages
...it was employed in figurative speech. John Locke (in Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) said that such devices "are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas,...move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment" (p. 191). By the end of the eighteenth century, the cognitive status of imagination fared somewhat... | |
 | Robert U. Ayres, Leslie Ayres - 2002 - 712 pages
...1982 [1651]), 2. In An Essay concerning Human Understanding: "Figurative applications of words ... are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgement, and so indeed are perfect cheats. They are certainly, in all discourses that pretend to... | |
 | Brook Thomas - 2002 - 424 pages
...discourse: if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow, that all the Art of Rhetorick ... are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong Ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the Judgement; and so indeed are perfect cheat. And therefore ... they are certainly, in all Discourses... | |
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