 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,...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Страница 41по John Locke - 1805 - 510 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Brook Thomas - 2002 - 424 страници
...antagonism of truth and rhetoric was the abandonment of all rhetorical devices from rational discourse: if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow, that all the Art of Rhetorick ... are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong Ideas, move the passions,... | |
 | Evelyn Fox Keller - 2002 - 420 страници
...(2001) and Daniel Siegel (1991). 2. Locke's denunciation of figurative speech is especially well known: "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... | |
 | Naomi Scheman, Peg O'Connor - 2010 - 492 страници
..."pleasure and delight," but where we seek "information and improvement" it is quite another matter: [I]f 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... | |
 | Simon Brittan - 2003 - 242 страници
...Truth and real Knowledge,/gjr«raftVe Speeches, and allusion in Language, will hardly be admitted, as an imperfection or abuse of it. I confess, in Discourses,...Delight, than Information and Improvement, such Ornaments are borrowed from them, can scarce pass for Faults. But yet, if we would speak of Things as they are,... | |
 | Peter Walmsley - 2003 - 208 страници
...Sprat, to single out metaphorical language as wholly foreign to the purposes of philosophical discourse: 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... | |
 | Richard Bauman, Charles L. Briggs - 2003 - 378 страници
...and fancy" (III. x. 34). Since it strives for entertainment and pleasantry, rhetoric can be tolerated "in discourses where we seek rather pleasure and delight than information and improvement" (ibid.). He condemns rhetoric not only for being an art but for being a false one at that - "the art... | |
 | Katarzyna Jaszczolt, Ken Turner - 2003 - 510 страници
...Locke's condemnation of non-literal language use in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding: ( 1 ) (...) if we would speak of Things as they are, we must allow, that all the Art of Rhetorick (...), all the artificial and figurative application of Words Eloquence hath... | |
 | James Mulvihill - 2004 - 300 страници
...convey precise meaning. This solution hardly rehabilitates rhetoric, however. Locke in fact charges that "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... | |
 | Roberto Franzosi - 2004 - 506 страници
...poetry."28 Wit and Fancy finds easier entertainment in the World, than dry Truth and real Knowledge ... 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... | |
 | Daniel Harry Cohen - 2004 - 252 страници
...of a violent reaction against literary style, especially in the serious business of argumentation: If we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clarity; all the artificial and figurative application of... | |
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