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Términos y frases comunes
acquired admit adverb affirm animals applied argument arises Aristotelian Aristotelian logic Aristotle ascer axiom body called cause cerned Chap common comparison conclusion consider deserving of respect distinct doctrine Dugald Stewart Edinburgh Review effect Essay example existence expression fact former further gism grammar guage hearer Human Mind ideas inductive inquire instance instrument intel intellection invented knowledge language learning ledge Locke Locke's Logic Lord Monboddo manner matter means ment metaphysics Natural Theology nature noun object observed occasion once operations original particular perceive perception philosopher phrases phrenologists Plato premises principle proof proposition Purley purpose racter rational rational agent reader reasoning reference relation Rhetoric Sect Sematology sensation sense sentient separate signify speak speaker speech stand substantive suggested suppose syllogism tence theory things physical thought tion true truth understanding understood verb Whately Whately's words
Pasajes populares
Página 183 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Página 210 - It is evident how much men love to deceive, and be deceived, since rhetoric, that powerful instrument of error and deceit, has its established professors, is publicly taught, and has always been had in great reputation...
Página 209 - ... to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheats: and therefore, however laudable or allowable oratory may render them in harangues and popular addresses, they are certainly, in all discourses that pretend to inform or instruct, wholly to be avoided; and where truth and knowledge are concerned, cannot but be thought a great fault, either of the language or person that makes use of them.
Página 209 - 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, move thii passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats...
Página 208 - Since wit and fancy find easier entertainment in the world than 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 where we seek rather pleasure and delight than information and improvement, such ornaments as are borrowed from them can scarce pass for faults. But yet if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of...
Página 163 - This therefore being my purpose, to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge, together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent...
Página 215 - Where is Cupid's crimson motion ? Billowy ecstasy of woe, Bear me straight, meandering ocean, Where the stagnant torrents flow. Blood in every vein is gushing, Vixen vengeance lulls my heart, See, the Gorgon gang is rushing ! Never, never let us part.
Página 4 - They tooth and nail, and helter skelter, Fought fist to fist ; then with a club Each learned his brother brute to drub ; Till, more experienced grown, these cattle Forged fit accoutrements for battle. At last (Lucretius says and Creech) They set their wits to work on speech : And that their thoughts might all have marks To make them known, these learned clerks , Left off the trade of cracking crowns, And manufactured verbs and nouns.
Página 170 - There cannot be a doubt that this extraordinary omission had its origin in the doubts which men are prone to entertain of the mind's existence independent of matter.
Página 211 - Are we to infer that he regarded rhetorical theories in general only as objects of ridicule and, like the author of Hudibras in a later age, held that All a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools ? There are a score of other passages in which he or the characters through whom he speaks profess to care little and know nothing about rhetoric. Says the Franklin : I lerned never rethoric certeyn ; Thing that I speke, it mote be bare and pleyn. I sleep never on the Mount of Pernaso Ne...