 | Dionysius Lardner - 1824 - 218 pages
...rhetoric but order and clearness. He anticipates however opposition in this doctrine, and declares that " Eloquence like the fair sex has too prevailing beauties in it to suffer itself to be spoken against." 16. The ends of language are 1°. to convey our ideas ; 2°. to do it with quickness,... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 602 pages
...but it will be thought a great boldness, if not brutality, in me, to have said thus much against it. Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties...deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. CHAP. XI. OF THE REMEDIES OF THE FOREGOING IMPERFEcTIONS AND ABUSES. § 1. They are worth seeking,... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 424 pages
...not, but it will be thought great boldness, if not brutality in me, to have said thus much against it. Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties...deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. CHAPTER XI. Of the Remedies of the foregoing Imperfections and Abuses. § 1. THE natural and improved... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 436 pages
...not, but it will be thought great boldness, if not brutality in me, to have said thus much against it. Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties...deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. CHAPTER XI. Of the Remedies of the foregoing Imperfections and Abuses. § 1. THE natural and improved... | |
 | Lord Peter King King - 1829 - 426 pages
...speeches and all the artificial ornaments of rhetoric are truly an abuse of language also; but this, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in...fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find a pleasure to be deceived. Chap. 9- That which has nourished disputes and spread errors in the world... | |
 | Lord Peter King King - 1830 - 540 pages
...speeches and all the artificial ornaments of rhetoric are truly an abuse of language also ; but this, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in...be spoken against, and it is in vain to find fault ?ith those arts of deceiving wherein men find a pleasure to be deceived. Chap. 9. That which has nourished... | |
 | John Locke - 1831 - 458 pages
...not, but it will be thought great boldness, if not brutality, in me to have said thus much against it. Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties...deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. CHAPTER XI. Of the Remedies of the foregoing Imperfections and Abuses. Speech being the bond that holds... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 pages
...not, but it will be thought great boldness, if not brutality, in me to have said thus much against it. Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties...deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. CHAPTER XI. Of the Remedies of the foregoing Imperfections and Abuses. Speech being the bond that holds... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1831 - 264 pages
...not but it will be thought great boldness, if not brutality in me, to have said thus much against it. Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties...deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived." with the clearest truth—let him burn to communicate the blessing to others ;—yet can he, in no... | |
 | David Irving - 1836 - 432 pages
...not, but it will be thought great boldness, if not brutality in me to have said thus much against it. Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it, to suffer it self ever to be spoken against. And 'tis in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein... | |
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Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it to suffer itself ever to be spoken against. And it is in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. 
