 | Percy Holmes Boynton - English language - 1915 - 556 pages
...Autobiography " he tells of how, after years of embarrassing people by the use of the Socratic method, he gradually left it, retaining only the habit of expressing...in terms of modest diffidence ; never using, when I advanced anything that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that... | |
 | Clarence Stratton - Elocution - 1920 - 364 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...in terms of modest diffidence; never using, when I advanced anything that may possibly be disputed, the words Certainly, Undoubtedly, or any others that... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - History - 1921 - 720 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...in terms of modest diffidence; never using, when I advanced any thing that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that... | |
 | Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins, Edward Hiram Reede - National characteristics, American - 1924 - 360 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions the consequences of which they did not...that neither myself nor my cause always deserved." In the same way, his satiric humor — having passed like Lincoln's through a Rabelaisian period —... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...in terms of modest diffidence, never using, when I advanced any thing that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that... | |
 | Theodore Hornberger - Biography & Autobiography - 50 pages
...practis'd it continually & grew very artful & expert in drawing People even of superior Knowledge into Concessions the Consequences of which they did not...themselves, and so obtaining Victories that neither my self nor my Cause always deserved." This device, more useful in face-to-face oral discourse than... | |
 | Mary Ann Radzinowicz - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 300 pages
...practis'd it continually and grew very artful and expert in drawing People even of superior Knowledge into Concessions the Consequences of which they did not...themselves, and so obtaining Victories that neither my self nor my Cause always deserved. I continu'd this Method some few Years, but gradually left it.... | |
 | Jeffery A. Smith - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 246 pages
...method "continually" and "grew very artful & expert in drawing People even of superior Knowledge into Concessions the Consequences of which they did not...out of which they could not extricate themselves. . . ."23 Franklin's quickly developing talents and intellectual positions served him well enough as... | |
 | John D. Lovern - Alcoholism - 1991 - 244 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...that neither myself nor my cause always deserved, (pp. 29—30) Backward communication was developed with this rationale: If a therapist tells a patient... | |
 | Christopher Looby - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 304 pages
...practis'd it continually & grew very artful & expert in drawing People even of superior Knowledge into Concessions the Consequences of which they did not...themselves, and so obtaining Victories that neither my self nor my Cause always deserved, (p. 1321) This was sophistry, not true Socratic dialogue: it... | |
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I took a delight in it, practiced it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not... 
