| Jay David Atlas - Philosophy - 2005 - 304 pages
...Understanding writes: 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...mislead the judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheats. (Locke 1690: 3.10.34) Speaking of things as they are! How far this seventeenth-century phrase seems... | |
| John Richetti - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 974 pages
...(science) fell: '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...thereby mislead the Judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheat'.7 The battle was waged also on the side of literature. Poets, dramatists, satirists and novelists... | |
| Christian Emden - Philosophy - 2005 - 252 pages
..."perfect cheat": "if we . . . speak of Things as they are, we must allow, that all the Art of Rhetorick, besides Order and Clearness, all the artificial and...thereby mislead the Judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheat. . . . 'Tis evident how much Men love to deceive, and be deceived, since Rhetorick, that powerful... | |
| Ross Greig Woodman - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 297 pages
...observations: 'But yet, 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...thereby mislead the Judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheat;1 ... they are certainly, in all Discourses that pretend to inform or instruct, wholly to be... | |
| Ellwood Johnson - Puritan movements in literature - 2005 - 300 pages
...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 passions, and thereby mislead the judgment" (III, 146-7.) At least twice in Human Understanding he tells us that to use gold, the name of a metal,... | |
| David Brett - Art - 2005 - 324 pages
...contains (in Book three) a sustained attack upon any kind of 'figurative' speech. It exists, he writes for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgement .... in all discourses that pretend to inform or instruct, wholly to be avoided.12 What this... | |
| Shai Frogel - Philosophy - 2005 - 176 pages
...elements that merely distort the capacity of judgment: We must allow, that all the art of rhetoric, beside order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invited, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrongs ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead... | |
| Luc Desnoyers - Chalk-talks - 2005 - 471 pages
...! 2. «AU thé art of rhetoric, ail thé artificial and figurative application of words éloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move thé passions, and thereby mislead thé judgement; and so indeed are perfect cheats. » (Traduction... | |
| Priscilla Meléndez - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 236 pages
...abuse of it. ... 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...mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats. . . . Only I cannot but observe how little the preservation and improvement of truth and knowledge... | |
| Stephen J. McKenna - 2006 - 201 pages
...abuse: "But yet, 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...thereby mislead the Judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheat ..." (3.10.34). If this passage is notable as a denunciation of rhetoric, it is no less significant... | |
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