 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,...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 45by John Locke - 1813Full view - About this book
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...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, move thii passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats ; and, therefore,... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words, eloquence hath invented, are...ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheat. And therefore, however laudable or allowable oratory may... | |
 | 1899 - 588 pages
...allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are...ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment ; and so, indeed, are perfect cheats . . . and where truth and knowledge are concerned, cannot... | |
 | John Locke - 1877 - 138 pages
...allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are...ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment ; and so indeed are perfect cheats : and therefore, however laudable or allowable oratory... | |
 | John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are...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 - 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...ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment. It is evident how much men love to deceive and be deceived, since rhetoric, that powerful... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1888 - 576 pages
...allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are...ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment ; and so indeed are perfect cheat: and therefore however laudable or allowable oratory may... | |
 | John Locke - 1890 - 240 pages
...allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are...wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead tlie judgment ; and so indeed are perfect cheats : and therefore, however laudable or allowable oratory... | |
 | John Locke - 1892 - 566 pages
...allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are...ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats; and therefore, however laudable or allowable oratory may... | |
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