| Kenneth John Emerson Graham - 1994 - 260 pages
...Tieatie of Humane Learning-, rhetoric, he writes, Is growne a Siren in the formes of pleading, Captiving reason, with the painted skinne Of many words; with empty sounds misleading Us to false ends, by these false forms abuse, Brings never forth that Truth, whose name they use. (HL... | |
| Charles R. Bambach - 1995 - 316 pages
...Treatie of Humane Learning-, rhetoric, he writes, Is growne a Siren in the formes of pleading, Captiving reason, with the painted skinne Of many words; with empty sounds misleading Us to false ends, by these false forms abuse, Brings never forth that Truth, whose name they use. (HL... | |
| Sonja Hansard-Weiner - 2002 - 296 pages
...reliance on words, rhetoric is far worse off, having growne a Siren in the formes of pleading, Captiuing reason, with the painted skinne Of many words; with...misleading Vs to false ends, by these false forms abuse, Brings neuer forth that Truth, whose name they vse. Besides, this Art, where scarcity of words Forc'd... | |
| John Baxter - 2005 - 280 pages
...107 Rhetorike, to this a sister, and a twinne, Is growne a Siren in the formes of pleading, Captiuing reason, with the painted skinne Of many words; with...misleading Vs to false ends, by these false forms abuse, Brings neuer forth that Truth, whose name they vse. 108 Besides, this Art, where scarcity of words... | |
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