 | Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist - 1998 - Liczba stron: 840
...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. (Bk.3, chap. 10, pp. 105-6) Nothing could be more eloquent than this denunication of eloquence. It... | |
 | Stephen H. Webb - 1998 - Liczba stron: 235
...surprising that philosophers have connected rhetoric with femininity. "Eloquence," writes John Locke, "like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in...deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived" (1984: 147). Women epitomize rhetoric because their marginalization makes them useful (to men) only... | |
 | Susan Haack - 2000 - Liczba stron: 246
...that it will no doubt be thought "great boldness" in him to speak out against figures of speech; for "eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing...in it to suffer itself ever to be spoken against" (III.x.34). And a few pages earlier in the same chapter, deploring the "affected obscurity" of "the... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy - 1999 - Liczba stron: 366
...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 reader might find amusement in identifying the dozen or more tropes and figures to be found in... | |
 | Peter Cosgrove - 1999 - Liczba stron: 300
...concludes, "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...ever to be spoken against. And it is in vain to find faults with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived." 40 Locke's own discourse... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - Liczba stron: 452
...occasion for the abuse of language. Indeed, he feels this himself to some extent. For he remarks that 'eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it to suffer itself ever to be spoken against'.4 But his point is that 'eloquence' and rhetoric are used to move the passions and mislead... | |
 | Amal Asfour, Dr Paul Williamson, Paul Williamson - 1999 - Liczba stron: 360
...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 in it, to suffer it self ever to be spoken against. And 'tis in vain to find fault with those Arts of Deceiving, wherein... | |
 | Antony Easthope - 1999 - Liczba stron: 292
...rhetorical force against rhetoric, Locke finds himself compelled to end with a revealing piece of gallantry: 'Eloquence, like the 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... | |
 | Martin McQuillan - 2001 - Liczba stron: 166
...essay 'The Epistemology of Metaphor' (from Aestheric Ideology). Locke writes of rhetoric: Eloquance, like the fair sex. has too prevailing beauties in it to suffer itself ever to be spokan againsL And it is in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherem man find pleasure... | |
 | David Porter - 2001 - Liczba stron: 324
...rebels of Lagado, poses a decidedly feminine challenge to the orderly reproduction of truth in language. "Eloquence, like the 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... | |
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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. 
