 | John Locke - 1890 - 240 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. NOTES. A. THE SCHOOLMBN. In the preceding article Locke has taken occasion to animadvert in strong... | |
 | John Locke - 1892 - 566 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 - 1894 - 516 pages
...in me to have said thus much against it. Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing BOOK 1n. beauties in it to suffer itself ever to be spoken...deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived l. ' Cf. Bk. II. ch. xi. § a. Descartes truth. But the comprehensive genius repeatedly puts us on... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. q. LAVATEB — Aphorisms. No. 439. nor r. LOCKE — Human Understanding. Bk. III. Ch. X. 34. He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pages
...IV., line 675. " 'Tis inhumanity to bless by chance." YOUNG. Love of Fame, Sat. III., line 182. " 'Tis in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived." LOCKE. Essay on the Human Understanding, Bk. III., Chap. X., Sec. 34. " 'Tis infamy to die and not... | |
 | 1900 - 570 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...it, to suffer itself ever to be spoken against. And 'tis in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived."*... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pages
...thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth ;' and "Tis in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.' Locke on quotation deserves to be cited in a work like the present : ' He that has but ever so little... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him ¡n possession of the truth ; ' and ' Tis n's ode, quoted at Vol. I. p. 783. From Pope's 'Iliad.' The troops exulting sat in order roun Locke on quotation deserves to be cited in a work like the present : ' He that has but ever so little... | |
 | William Isaac Thomas - 1907 - 346 pages
...so susceptible as seemingly, almost, to want to be victimized, and, as Locke expressed the matter, "It is in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived." This disposition of man and the detached condition of woman have much to do with the emergence of the... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1907 - 902 pages
...so susceptible as seemingly, almost, to want to be victimized, and, as Locke expressed the matter, "It is in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived." This disposition of men and the detached condition of woman have much to do with the emergence of the... | |
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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. 
