 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1838 - Liczba stron: 416
...truth are essentially distinct. They differ in kind. The former relates to propriety in the manner, by which the emotive part of our nature is addressed,...But their office is in the enforcement of truth as a i rule of conduct, not the discovery and original expression of that truth. Pure rays of light, passing... | |
 | 1838 - Liczba stron: 420
...truth are essentially distinct. They differ in kind. The former relates to propriety in the manner, by which the emotive part of our nature is addressed,...among the means for the instruction and improvement of manBut their office is in the enforcement of truth as a rule of conduct, not the discovery and original... | |
 | David Irving - 1841 - Liczba stron: 448
...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 men find pleasure to be deceived."*—This is a degree of severity more than philosophical. The passage seems to involve one... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1842 - Liczba stron: 542
...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."" with the clearest truth — let him burn to communicate the blessing to others ; — yet can he, in... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - Liczba stron: 588
...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. CHAPTER XI. OF THE REMEDIES OF THE FOREGOING IMPERFECTIONS AND ABUSES. 1. Tliey are worth seeking.... | |
 | Marmion Wilard Savage - 1852 - Liczba stron: 300
...of black velvet, yield herself prematurely to the captivations of pulpit oratory. BOOK THE SIXTH. " Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties...against. And it is in vain to find fault with those arts ol eceiving wherein men find pleasure to bej deceived." Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding. Socrates.... | |
 | Marmion Wilme Savage - 1852 - Liczba stron: 468
...captivations of pulpit oratory. BOOK THE SIXTH. "Eloquence, IITce the fair sex, has too prevailing heanfies In it to suffer Itself ever to be spoken against. And it is in vain to find fault with those arts uf deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.1' — Locke's J2#sat/ on tlie Hitman Understanding,... | |
 | John Locke, James Augustus St. John - 1854 - Liczba stron: 576
...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.* * The notions which Locke here puts forward on the subject of rhetoric, and an ornate and figurative... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - Liczba stron: 536
...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...against. And it is in vain to find fault with those arta of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. CHAPTER XI. OF THE REMEDIES OF THE FOREGOING... | |
 | Peter King (7th baron.) - 1858 - Liczba stron: 532
...speeches and all the artificial ornaments of rhetoric are truly an abuse of lauguage also ; but this, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in...fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find a pleasure to be deceived. Chap. 9. That which has nourished disputes and spread errors in the world... | |
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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. 
