...glaringly obvious in Locke's denunciation of the rhetorical enterprise as a "perfect cheat": "if we . . . 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...

...elements that merely distort the capacity of judgment: We must allow, that all the art of rhetoric, beside order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invited, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrongs ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead...

...speeches and allusion in language will hardly be admitted as an imperfection or abuse of it. ... 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...

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

...rhetoric to persuade, however, "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 cheats" (III. 10.34). Later in the Essay, Locke associates such misuse of language with religious...

...besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong...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...

...course—"that powerful instrument of Error and Deceit"—that has perpetuated such abuse: "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...

...language on the stage, at the bar, in the pulpit, or in poetry. He remained confident that if we wish to '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 invented, are...

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

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