 | 1838 - 420 pages
...Table Talk, Vol. 3, p. 164. But the most pernicious effect of the prose works of Coleridge must be ascribed to his fanciful and poetic mode of expression....among the means for the instruction and improvement of manBut their office is in the enforcement of truth as a rule of conduct, not the discovery and original... | |
 | David Irving - 1841 - 448 pages
...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 men find pleasure to be deceived."*—This is a degree of severity more than philosophical. The passage seems to involve one... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1842 - 388 pages
...truth are essentially distinct. They differ in kind. The former relates to propriety in the mariner by which the emotive part of our nature is addressed,...But their office is in the enforcement of truth as a rule of conduct, not the discovery and original expression of that truth. Pure rays of light, passing... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1842 - 388 pages
...truth aje__£as£ntially distinct. They differ in kind. The former relates to propriety in the mariner by which the emotive part of our nature is addressed,...But their office is in the enforcement of truth as a rule of conduct, not the discovery and original expression of that truth. Pure rays of light, passing... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1842 - 542 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 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. Tliey are worth seeking.... | |
 | Marmion Wilard Savage - 1852 - 300 pages
...of black velvet, yield herself prematurely to the captivations of pulpit oratory. BOOK THE SIXTH. " Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties...against. And it is in vain to find fault with those arts ol eceiving wherein men find pleasure to bej deceived." Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding. Socrates.... | |
 | Marmion Wilme Savage - 1852 - 468 pages
...captivations of pulpit oratory. BOOK THE SIXTH. "Eloquence, IITce the fair sex, has too prevailing heanfies In it to suffer Itself ever to be spoken against. And it is in vain to find fault with those arts uf deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.1' — Locke's J2#sat/ on tlie Hitman Understanding,... | |
 | John Locke, James Augustus St. John - 1854 - 576 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.* * The notions which Locke here puts forward on the subject of rhetoric, and an ornate and figurative... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 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...against. And it is in vain to find fault with those arta of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. CHAPTER XI. OF THE REMEDIES OF THE FOREGOING... | |
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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. 
