...faults. 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...thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheat; and therefore however laudable or allowable oratory may render them in harangues and popular...

...works of "entertainment and pleasantry" (II. 11.2). When employed in rhetoric to persuade, however, "all the artificial and figurative application of...mislead the judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheats" (III. 10.34). Later in the Essay, Locke associates such misuse of language with religious fanatics...

...The quotation is from Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science, 41. All the art of rhetorick, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and...move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment . . . eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it to suffer itself ever to be spoken...

...Human Understanding, however, that Locke launches his most damaging attack: All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and...wrong ideas, move the passions and thereby mislead the judgement; and so indeed are a perfect cheat.10 As with Descartes, the art of communication is reduced...

...Faults. 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...thereby mislead the Judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheat. — Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Among the many philosophers and political...

...Faults. 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...thereby mislead the Judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheat [...]56 According to Locke, 'Ornaments' can be grudgingly permitted in discourses intended for...

...loaded down with metaphors. But yet, if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that... all the artificial and figurative application of words...thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheat. [Essay concerning Human Understanding Book 3, Chapter 10, p. 105, my holding] Arguably "move",...

...metaphor a rhetorical misuse of language; he cites Locke's remarks: [A]ll the figurative and artificial application of words eloquence hath invented, are...ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgement. ..and, therefore. ..wholly to be avoided. (1978:3) More recent reappraisals, Cohen says,...

...representation: 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 "'' Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (3rd edn: 3 vols; Edinburgh, 1787) vol. 1,...

...faults. 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...thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheat; and therefore however laudable or allowable oratory may render them in harangues and popular...