 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1753 - 544 pages
...imagination only. There is no need however to banifh eloquence out of philofophy ; and truth and realbn are no enemies to the purity, nor to the ornaments...of an exact determination of ideas, and of an exact preciflon quire. All I dare promife you is, , that my thoughts, in what order foever they flow, fhall... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1787 - 376 pages
...only. There is no need howU 4 ever ever to banifh eloquence out of philofophy ^ and truth and reafon are no enemies to the purity, nor to the ornaments...want of an exact determination of ideas, and of an exa£l precifion in the ufe of words, is inexcufable in a philofopher, he muil preferve them, even... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 548 pages
...whimsical; and by the parts of it which he understands best, lest he should grow obscure. But these parts he must develope fully, and he has no right to omit any...style. In short, it seems to me, that the business of v the philosopher is to dilate, if I may borrow this word from Tully, to press, to prove, to convince;... | |
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PLATO, and his antient and modern disciples, to the imagination only. There is no need however to banish eloquence out of philosophy; and truth and reason are no enemies to the purity, nor to the ornaments of language. But as the want of an exact determination... 