 | Paul De Man, Andrzej Warminski - Literary Criticism - 212 pages
...Dutton. 1961). 2:bk. 2. chap.9, p. 87. All further references will appear in the text. hardly be admitted as an imperfection or abuse of it. I confess, in discourses...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... | |
 | James A. Throgmorton - Architecture - 1996 - 352 pages
...not rhetoric. John Locke (cited in Simons 1990, 1) nicely expresses the antirhetorical point of view: If we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness . . . are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move... | |
 | Dafydd Gibbon - Computers - 1996 - 1278 pages
...metaphor merely "seduces the reason" (as Bachelard put it). Or, as Locke says in an exemplary statement: If we would speak of things as they are we must allow that [...] all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to... | |
 | Geraldine W. van Rijn-van Tongeren - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 196 pages
...vehement attack on rhetoric and figurative language in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)9 : 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... | |
 | Z. Radman - Philosophy - 1996 - 208 pages
...»artificial« application of words, which was considered a real threat for order and clearness. [...] 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... | |
 | Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist - Philosophy - 1998 - 840 pages
...dry truth and real knowledge, figurative speeches and allusions in language will hardly be admitted as an imperfection or abuse of it. I confess, in discourses...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... | |
 | Susan Haack - Philosophy - 2000 - 246 pages
...allusions in language will hardly be admitted as an imperfection of it," Locke insists that nevertheless, "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 applications of words eloquence... | |
 | K. Michael Hays - Architecture - 1998 - 780 pages
...John Locke's mistrust of rhetoric on account of its capacity for evasion and embellishment seems apt: "But yet, if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the arts of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 366 pages
...dry truth and real knowledge, figurative speeches and allusion in language will hardly be admitted as an imperfection or abuse of it. I confess, in discourses...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... | |
 | Heinrich Franz Plett, Peter Lothar Oesterreich, Thomas O. Sloane - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 566 pages
...dry truth and real knowledge, figurative speeches and allusion in language will hardly be admitted as an imperfection or abuse of it. I confess, in discourses...ornaments as are borrowed from them can scarce pass for faults.3t 49 There are, of course, terminological differences. "Demonstration" is taken in a strictly... | |
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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,... 
