 | Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 398 pages
...68. Locke's condemnation of catachresis is an important stage in this development. Note especially: "Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing...find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men fmd pleasure to be deceived." (Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. John W. Yolton, 2 Vols. [London:... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 452 pages
...occasion for the abuse of language. Indeed, he feels this himself to some extent. For he remarks that 'eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it to suffer itself ever to be spoken against'.4 But his point is that 'eloquence' and rhetoric are used to move the passions and mislead... | |
 | Peter Walmsley - 2003 - 208 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... | |
 | Simone Roggenbuck - 2005 - 396 pages
...Schönheit begründet liege. Da liegt natürlich der Vergleich mit der holden Weiblichkeit auf der Hand: «Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing...in it to suffer itself ever to be spoken against.» (LOCKE, £jjay:III/10/§34 [p. 508]). De Maus treffsicherer Kommentar zu dieser Passage darf dem Leser... | |
 | Ross Greig Woodman - 2005 - 297 pages
...As if confessing his pleasure, Locke with considerable irony (itself a form of rhetoric) continues: '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... | |
 | Ellwood Johnson - 2005 - 300 pages
...exercises of the will. It is well-known that Locke disliked poetry and oratory. Eloquence he identified with "those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived." Artificial and figurative expressions "are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the... | |
 | Iddo Landau - 2010 - 192 pages
...nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment . . . eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties...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.19 Rooney... | |
 | Iddo Landau - 2010 - 192 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. 19 Rooney also cites Aristotle's "there is a justice, not indeed between a man and himself, but between... | |
 | Robert T. Craig, Heidi L. Muller - 2007 - 548 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. 11 WHAT Is A SIGN? CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE 1 . This is a most necessary question, since all reasoning... | |
 | Hannah Dawson - 2007 - 295 pages
...of rhetoric — 'that powerful instrument of error and deceit' that is too beguiling to be gainsaid. 'Eloquence, like the 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... | |
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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. 
