...his Essay Concerning Human Understanding: [I]f we would speak of things as they are, we must allow all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness,...artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead...

...his Essay Concerning Human Understanding: [I]f we would speak of things as they are, we must allow all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness,...artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead...

...in which Locke maintains that all the artificial and figurative applications of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong...ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgement. (Locke 1959 [1706]: bk. m. chap. X.34) Metaphors are believed to be imprecise, their imprecision...

...scientific prose, and John Locke spoke for many reformers when he complained that rhetoric was invented "for nothing else but to insinuate wrong Ideas, move the Passions, and thereby mislead the Judgment." 40 As John J. Richetti has reiterated, however, the opposition between philosophy and rhetoric cannot...

...Human Understanding, bk III, ch. 10, para. 34, p. 508. He continued that 'all the Art of Rhetorick' is 'for nothing else but to insinuate wrong Ideas, move the Passions, and thereby mislead the Judgement'. Peter Walmsley, 'Prince Maurice's Rational Parrot' (1995) brings out Locke's distrust of...

...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...artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead...

..."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...artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead...

...they affect us emotionally: "all the artificial and figurative application of Words Eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong...and thereby mislead the Judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheat."19 However, like other philosophers who hold this view, the very phrases he uses to...

...inconvenience enforced by nature and custom. Not only did Locke explain the function of rhetoric as "nothing else but to insinuate wrong Ideas, move the...and thereby mislead the Judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheat," but gendered such "Eloquence" as being "like the fair Sex, [it] has too prevailing...

...Rhetorick. besides Order and Clearness all the artificial and figurative application of Words Eloquence hat invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong...move the Passions, and thereby mislead the Judgment'. ':i Summing up the general view, Sprat similarly declares in his History that eloquence is 'fatal to...