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" Fancy disgust the best things, if they come sound, and unadorn'd: they are in open defiance against Reason; professing, not to hold much correspondence with that; but with its Slaves, the Passions: they give the mind a motion too changeable, and bewitching,... "
Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy: An Eccentric History of the Composing Imagination - Página 6
de William A. Covino - 1994 - 189 páginas
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The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour

Joseph E. Harmon, Alan G. Gross - 2007 - 353 páginas
...begins with a diatribe against contemporary scholarly writing, then offers the Society's antidote: Who can behold, without indignation, how many mists...uncertainties, these specious Tropes and Figures have brought to our Knowledg? How many rewards, which are due to more profitable, and difficult Arts, have been...
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The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English ...

Lee Morrissey - 2008 - 264 páginas
...dimension rather than about the messiness of print. "Who can behold, without indignation," he asks, "how many mists and uncertainties, these specious...and figures have brought on our Knowledge?" (112). For Sprat the advantage of natural philosophy is that it offers a way to acquire knowledge without...
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Communicating Science, Volumen 1

Eileen Scanlon, Roger Hill, Kirk Junker - 1999 - 332 páginas
...History of the Royal Society (1667), which here rails against the literary style of the Elizabethans: Who can behold, without Indignation how many Mists...Tropes and Figures have brought on our Knowledge? ... I dare say that of all the Studies of Men, nothing may be sooner obtain'd, than this vicious Abundance...
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Studies, Volúmenes 7-8

Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1919 - 802 páginas
...against Reason; professing not to hold much correspondence with that ; but with its slaves, the passions: they give the mind a motion too changeable, and bewitching, to consist with right practice." He then inveighs indignantly against "specious tropes end figures," "seeming mysteries," "vicious abundance...
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