 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 sivua
...allusions in language mll hardly be admitted as an imperfection or abuse of it. I confess in discourse where we seek rather pleasure and delight than information and improvement, such ornaments as are borrow'd from them can scarce pass for faults. But yet if we would speak of things as they are, we... | |
 | Language - 1880 - 18 sivua
...metaphysical, ie, verbal imposture." — The closing words of the Diversions of Pitrlei/. JOHN LOCKE. — "If we would speak of things as they are, we must...of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the figurative and artificial application of words that eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but... | |
 | 1888 - 576 sivua
...figurative speeches, and allusion in language, will hardly be admitted as an imperfection or abuse of it. I confess, in discourses where we seek rather pleasure...ornaments as are borrowed from them, can scarce pass for fanlts. But yet, if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric,... | |
 | 1900 - 570 sivua
...figurative speeches, and allusion in language, will hardly be admitted as an imperfection or abuse of it. I confess, in discourses where we seek rather pleasure...scarce pass for faults. But yet, if we would speak of thin.Ljs as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all... | |
 | Frederic William Westaway - 1912 - 474 sivua
...discourses they seldom are in the right, so they are as seldom to be convinced that they are in the wrong."2 "All the art of Rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative applications of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move... | |
 | Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson - 1926 - 160 sivua
...knowledge of things." Figurative language may be in place where pleasure is chiefly sought; but, he added, "if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of Rhetorick, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence... | |
 | University of Iowa - 1928 - 760 sivua
...knowledge of things." Figurative language may be in place where pleasure is chiefly sought; but, he added, "if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of Rhetorick, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 sivua
...condemnation of the deccptiveness of 'figurative speeches and allusions,' he did so grudgingly. 'I confess, in discourses where we seek rather pleasure...delight than information and improvement, such ornaments . . . can scarce pass for faults.' In his Thoughts Concerning Education, Locke (echoing the opinion... | |
 | Rainer Georg Grübel - 1984 - 448 sivua
...will hardly be admttted, as an imperfsction or abuse of it. I confens, in Discoursen, where we sssk rather Pleasure and Delight, than Information and...are borrowed from them, can scarce pass for Faults. Hut yet, if we would speak of Things as they are, we must allow, that all the Art of Rhetorick, beniden... | |
 | Robert L. Montgomery - 2010 - 229 sivua
...Speeches, and allusion in 1.anguage, will hardly be admitted, as an imperfection or abuse of it. I confess, in Discourses, where we seek rather Pleasure...things as they are, we must allow that all the Art of Rhetorick, besides Order and Clearness, all the artificial and figuracontrary to Metaphor and Allusion,... | |
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But yet if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetorick, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas,... 
