 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 446 էջ
...systems of rhetoric, than volumes of sober argument can effect in promoting them, has told the world, that All a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But happily the doctrine, that ridicule is the test of truth, has never obtained the assent of the... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1831 - 416 էջ
...a rhetorical catechism ? Hudibras' satirical couplet is too true, as the art is thus taught. ' For all a. rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.' The fact is, that the great secret of making the study of this art of practical advantage, is to direct the attention... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1831 - 380 էջ
...a rhetorical catechism 1 Hudibras' satirical couplet is too true, as the art is thus taught. ' For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.' The fact is, that the great secret of making the study of this art of practical advantage, is to direct the attention... | |
 | George Field - 1839 - 422 էջ
...to its existing state, the irrelevancy of which has subjected it to the reproof of the satirist, — that " All a Rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools." 274. Rhetoric refers to letters, words, and language universally, and therefore, in its widest sense,... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1842 - 542 էջ
...favourable associations : — he pretends to conceal what in fact he declares ; — (apophasis ; — ) to pass by what * In referring to these and other...then it is something to a workman to have a name for bis tools ; for this implies that he can find them handily. — May we add to our remark, that the... | |
 | William Bellars - 1876 - 410 էջ
...which have been produced from time to time, are merely classified statements of facts. Butler tells us that " All a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools;" and, in the same way, many who are quite unlearned about "tonics" and "dominants" and "mediants," yet... | |
 | William Bellars - 1876 - 408 էջ
...which have been produced from time to time, are merely classified statements of facts. Butler tells us that " All a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools; " and, in the same way, many who are quite unlearned about "tonics" and " dominants " and "mediants,"... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1877 - 330 էջ
...more philosophical method, there would he fewer sympathizers with the satiric fling of Hudibras, " For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.' The chief reason why so small a value is attached to precepts of style is, that they savor too much of... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 էջ
...acquisition certainly not to be undervalued ; for there is only a half-truth in Butler's famous aphorism, that "All a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools." Yet assuredly it is a barren knowledge, that of the " rhetorician's rules," unless these are seen and... | |
 | Charles Coppens - 1885 - 318 էջ
...modern text-books and that multiplicity of terms and distinctions which made the satirist exclaim : "All a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools." The author does not expect to please every taste—this is impossible; but he hopes to have written a useful... | |
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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... 
