 | Helena Michie - 1990 - 194 էջ
...part, a metaphor for disproportion, a synecdoche. Metatrope female figure for rhetoric or eloquence ("Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing...arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived").30 De Man's commentary on Locke's figure shifts the focus of the discourse from writing... | |
 | Dan Miller, Mark Bracher, Donald D. Ault - 1987 - 410 էջ
...it to suffer itself ever to be spoken against," writes Locke gallantly, adding (rhetorically) that it is "in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived."71 For Locke rhetoric is feminine because "it is deceitful, false, devious and overadorned."... | |
 | Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn - 1992 - 252 էջ
...braggarts-but blowing and swallowing at the same time is indeed a difficult feat and I find it hard and in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived'. What will happen herein is the pleasure is now going to fall to the side as the pain and recognition... | |
 | Tilman Borsche, Federico Gerratana, Aldo Venturelli - 1994 - 572 էջ
...betrügen, doch aber den Zauber der Rede so groß hält, daß es Verwegenheit sei, dagegen zu sprechen: « Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties...deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived» [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, III, 10, 34] — so ist zunächst zu bemerken, daß die Wissenschaft... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 1994 - 276 էջ
...the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it, to suffer itself ever to be spoken against. And 'tis in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. (so8) 14 Of all the discourses in which men find deceit pleasurable, Locke significantly specifies... | |
 | Geoffrey Bennington - 1994 - 324 էջ
...fair Sex, has too prevailing Beauties in it, to suffer it self ever to be spoken against. And 'tis vain to find fault with those Arts of Deceiving, wherein Men find pleasure to be Deceived." The artful, feminine perfection of the 'cheat' of Rhetoric is such as to avoid having 'clapp'd upon'... | |
 | Philip Mirowski - 1994 - 640 էջ
...fair Sex, has too prevailing Beauties in it, to suffer it self ever to be spoken against. And 'tis vain to find fault with those Arts of Deceiving, wherein Men find pleasure to be Deceived. (Locke 1975, 508). This passage, of course, is Locke's own. His flamboyance and explicitly rhetorical... | |
 | Diana T. Meyers - 1994 - 220 էջ
...the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it to suffer itself ever to be spoken against. And it is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. {Locke quoted in Rooney, 1991, 84} I agree with Locke's observation that the beauty of figurative language... | |
 | Tassie Gwilliam - 1995 - 218 էջ
...physical attractions—and masculine investment in both—seem as palpably present as eloquence itself: "Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing...deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived." 14 This tendency of the female body to take over, to become an alternate subject, reinforces the sense... | |
 | Bonnie Kime Scott - 1996 - 376 էջ
...women. John Locke associated rhetoric with "the fair sex": It "has too prevailing beauties in itself to suffer itself ever to be spoken against. And it...deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived." 7 Paul de Man suggests that the metaphor's penchant to proliferate and become mixed is what troubled... | |
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Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it, to suffer itself ever to be spoken against. And it is in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. 
