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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. "
The Christian Examiner and General Review - Page 191
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The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume

Adam Potkay - 1994 - 276 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....
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Aspects of Metaphor

Jaakko Hintikka - 1994 - 278 pages
...doubt be thought "great boldness" in him to speak out against figures of speech; for "[ejloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in...it to suffer itself ever to be spoken against." And a few pages earlier in the same chapter, deploring the "affected obscurity" of "the wrangling and disputing...
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Natural Images in Economic Thought: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw

Philip Mirowski - 1994 - 640 pages
...fair Sex, has too prevailing Beauties in it, to suffer it self ever to be spoken against. And 'tis vain to find fault with those Arts of Deceiving, wherein Men find pleasure to be Deceived. (Locke 1975, 508). This passage, of course, is Locke's own. His flamboyance and explicitly rhetorical...
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Legislations: The Politics of Deconstruction

Geoffrey Bennington - 1994 - 324 pages
...fair Sex, has too prevailing Beauties in it, to suffer it self ever to be spoken against. And 'tis vain to find fault with those Arts of Deceiving, wherein Men find pleasure to be Deceived." The artful, feminine perfection of the 'cheat' of Rhetoric is such as to avoid having 'clapp'd upon'...
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Subjection & Subjectivity: Psychoanalytic Feminism & Moral Philosophy

Diana T. Meyers - 1994 - 220 pages
...the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it to suffer itself ever to be spoken against. And it is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. {Locke quoted in Rooney, 1991, 84} I agree with Locke's observation that the beauty of figurative language...
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Samuel Richardson's Fictions of Gender

Tassie Gwilliam - 1995 - 218 pages
...physical attractions—and masculine investment in both—seem as palpably present as eloquence itself: "Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing...deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived." 14 This tendency of the female body to take over, to become an alternate subject, reinforces the sense...
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Refiguring Modernism, Volume 1: Women of 1928

Bonnie Kime Scott - 1996 - 376 pages
...women. John Locke associated rhetoric with "the fair sex": It "has too prevailing beauties in itself to suffer itself ever to be spoken against. And it...deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived." 7 Paul de Man suggests that the metaphor's penchant to proliferate and become mixed is what troubled...
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Aesthetic Ideology

Paul De Man, Andrzej Warminski - 212 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. [Bk. 3, chap. l0. pp. l05-6] Nothing could be more eloquent than this denunciation of eloquence. It...
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Leibniz: New Essays on Human Understanding

Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - 1996 - 528 pages
...that what I have said against this art will no doubt be regarded as great boldness on my part; for 'eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it, to suffer it self ever to be' opposed. THEO. Far from disapproving of your zeal for the truth, I find it very...
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Reinventing Allegory

Theresa M. Kelley - 1997 - 372 pages
...he gives Eloquence, whose words are "perfect cheats," a distinctly female shape and misogynist edge: "Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing...suffer itself ever to be spoken against. And it is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived" (Essay 3.10.34,...
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