 | Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 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... | |
 | Peter Walmsley - 2003 - Liczba stron: 208
...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... | |
 | Simone Roggenbuck - 2005 - Liczba stron: 396
...Schönheit begründet liege. Da liegt natürlich der Vergleich mit der holden Weiblichkeit auf der Hand: «Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing...in it to suffer itself ever to be spoken against.» (LOCKE, £jjay:III/10/§34 [p. 508]). De Maus treffsicherer Kommentar zu dieser Passage darf dem Leser... | |
 | Ross Greig Woodman - 2005 - Liczba stron: 297
...As if confessing his pleasure, Locke with considerable irony (itself a form of rhetoric) continues: '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... | |
 | Ellwood Johnson - 2005 - Liczba stron: 300
...exercises of the will. It is well-known that Locke disliked poetry and oratory. Eloquence he identified with "those 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... | |
 | Iddo Landau - 2010 - Liczba stron: 192
...nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment . . . eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties...suffer itself ever to be spoken against. And it is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.19 Rooney... | |
 | Iddo Landau - 2010 - Liczba stron: 192
...the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it to suffer itself ever to be spoken against. And it is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. 19 Rooney also cites Aristotle's "there is a justice, not indeed between a man and himself, but between... | |
 | Robert T. Craig, Heidi L. Muller - 2007 - Liczba stron: 548
...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. 11 WHAT Is A SIGN? CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE 1 . This is a most necessary question, since all reasoning... | |
 | Hannah Dawson - 2007 - Liczba stron: 295
...of rhetoric — 'that powerful instrument of error and deceit' that is too beguiling to be gainsaid. 'Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it, to suffer it self ever to be spoken against. And 'tis vain to find fault with those Arts of Deceiving, wherein... | |
 | Denis Donoghue - 2008 - Liczba stron: 207
...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. 24 A joke, maybe, but the talk is again of sex, inevitably once Locke has adverted to "how much men... | |
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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. 
