...art, than in the rules or use of the art itself. Notwithstanding, to stir the earth a little about the roots of this science, as we have done of the rest:...Sophism, which pertains to Logic ; by Imagination or Impres • sion 2, which pertains to Rhetoric ; and by Passion or Affection, which pertains to Morality.3...

...art, than in the rules or use of the art itself. Notwithstanding, to stir the earth a little about the roots of this science, as we have done of the rest...Rhetoric is to apply Reason to Imagination ' for the betterj moving of the will. For we see Reason is disturbed in the administration thereof by three means...

...which we call Rhetoric or art of Eloquence." This is confirmation of what we already have suggested. " The duty and office of Rhetoric is To apply Reason...; by imagination or impression, which pertains to Ristoric ; and by Passion or Affeetion, which pertains to Morality" (p. 66, Book II., 1605). Now Bacon...

...stage. " This anecdote is partly an illustration of what Bacon has previously been saying, that the duty of rhetoric is " to apply reason to imagination, for the better moving of the will." Rhetoric, therefore, may be made an aid to the morality whose end is to persuade the affections and...

...respect, to do it ; yet does not do it. It is, according to Bacon, the duty and office of Rhetoric, " to apply reason to imagination, for the better moving of the will." An appeal to the feelings is always reasonable and right, when there is just ground for feeling ; and...

...science excellent and excellently well laboured. Wisdom secures respect, but eloquence moves the masses. The duty and office of rhetoric is to apply reason to imagination for the better moving of the will. As in negotiations with others, men are wrought by cunning, by importunity, and by vehemency, so in...

...elegance accommodated to the feelings and understandings of mankind " (' De Oratore,' 1. 13). Bacon : " The duty and office of Rhetoric is to apply reason to imagination for the better moving of the will " (' Adv. of Learning,' Bk. II., Vol. 3, p. 408). Campbell: " That art or talent by which the discourse...

...of Francis Bacon, although weighty, is too narrow. "The duty and office of Rhetoric," he writes, " is to apply Reason to Imagination for the better moving of the will ; " the relation of rhetoric to the feelings, you notice, is here passed over, — a serious omission....

...art, than in the rules or use of the art itself. Notwithstanding, to stir the earth a little about the roots of this science, as we have done of the rest...office of Rhetoric is to apply Reason to Imagination 2 08 for the better moving of the will. For we see Reason is disturbed in the administration thereof...

...orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, added to the perfection of the precepts of eloquence, hath doubled the progression in this art ; and therefore the deficiences...reason to imagination for the better moving of the wil1. For we see reason is disturbed in the administration thereof by three means ; by illaqueation...