 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
 | Jay David Atlas - 2005 - 304 pages
...Concerning Human Understanding writes: 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, move... | |
 | Ikujirō Nonaka - 2005 - 482 pages
...of rhetoric and an enemy of truth: ... 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, move... | |
 | Luc Desnoyers - 2005 - 471 pages
...! 2. «AU thé art of rhetoric, ail thé artificial and figurative application of words éloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move thé passions, and thereby mislead thé judgement; and so indeed are perfect cheats. » (Traduction... | |
 | Iddo Landau - 2010 - 192 pages
...All the art of rhetorick, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing...move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment . . . eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it to suffer itself ever to be spoken... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 668 pages
...in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, however, that Locke launches his most damaging attack: 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... | |
 | Priscilla Meléndez - 2006 - 236 pages
...as an imperfection or abuse of it. ... 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, move... | |
 | Rita Franceschini - 2006 - 568 pages
...them can scarce pass for faults. 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, move... | |
 | Daniel Shanahan - 2011 - 261 pages
...rhetorical misuse of language; he cites Locke's remarks: [A]ll the figurative and artificial application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing...ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgement. ..and, therefore. ..wholly to be avoided. (1978:3) More recent reappraisals, Cohen says,... | |
 | Robert T. Craig, Heidi L. Muller - 2007 - 548 pages
...them can scarce pass for faults. 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, move... | |
 | Jason Camlot - 2008 - 214 pages
...words eloquence hath invented" — as opposed to an expression of "dry truth and real knowledge" — "are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment."3" Against this position, Smart defends the various tropes and figures that make up the orator's... | |
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