 | Electronic journals - 1899 - 588 pages
...faults. But yet, if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and...judgment ; and so, indeed, are perfect cheats . . . and where truth and knowledge are concerned, cannot but be thought a great fault, either of the language... | |
 | John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...faults. But yet, if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and...ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the jndgment ; and so indeed are perfect cheats : and therefore, however landable or allowable oratory... | |
 | Harvey L. Eads - Sermons, American - 1879 - 272 pages
...phraseology, of which Locke thus discourses : " All artificial and figurative applications of words that eloquence hath invented are for nothing else but to...move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment. It is evident how much men love to deceive and be deceived, since rhetoric, that powerful instrument... | |
 | Language - 1880 - 18 pages
...rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the figurative and artificial application of words that eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed, are perfect cheats. It is evident how much... | |
 | English language - 1888 - 576 pages
...fanlts. But yet, if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and...thereby mislead the judgment ; and so indeed are perfect cheat: and therefore however laudable or allowable oratory may render them in harangues and popular... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1890 - 240 pages
...faults. But yet, if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and...wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead tlie judgment ; and so indeed are perfect cheats : and therefore, however laudable or allowable oratory... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - Authorship - 1908 - 328 pages
...faults. But yet, if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and...nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the H passions, and thereby mislead the judgment ; and so indeed are perfect cheat : and therefore however... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...passion, but reasoned into truth. — Dryilm. All the arts of rhetoric, besides order and clcani'-ss, q0 Locke. RICHES.-(8ee "WEALTH.") He is rich whose income is more than his expense« ; and he is poor... | |
 | Education - 1908 - 626 pages
...Thoughts concerning education, published in 1693. In the Essay he denounces it as an art that serves only to " insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment " (an inheritance from its origin in the Greek Law Courts, hard indeed to get rid of), altho he admits... | |
 | Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson - English essays - 1926 - 160 pages
...but, he added, "if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of Rhetorick, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and...mislead the Judgment, and so indeed are perfect Cheats. ' ' Here after all these years, and after these many changing ideas, Plato's words in the Phaedrus... | |
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But yet, if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas,... 
