The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 06 (of 11) — Thomas Hobbes — John Shaqi
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 06 (of 11)
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That the _hearer_ may be favourable to the _speaker_, one of two things
is required: that he _love_ him, or that he _pity_ him.
In _demonstrative_ orations, he that _praises_ shall have the _hearer_
favourable, if he think himself or his own manners, or course of life,
or anything he loves, comprehended in the same _praise_.
On the contrary, he that _dispraises_ shall be heard favourably, if the
_hearer_ find his _enemies_, or _their courses_, or anything he _hates_,
involved in the same _dispraise_.
The _proem_ of a _deliberative_ oration is taken from the same things
from which are taken the _proems_ of _judicial_ orations. For the matter
of a _deliberative_ oration needeth not that natural _proem_, by which
is shown what we are to speak of, for that is already known; the _proem_
in these being made only for the _speaker’s_ or _adversary’s_ sake, or
to make the _matter_ appear _great_ or _little_, as one would have it;
and is therefore to be taken from the _persons_ of the _plaintiff_ or
_defendant_, or from the _hearer_, or from the _matter_, as in orations
_judicial_.
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CHAPTER XIV.
PLACES OF CRIMINATION AND PURGATION.
One, from the _removal of ill opinion_ in the hearer, imprinted in him
by the adversary or otherwise.
Another from this: that the thing done is _not hurtful_, or _not to
him_, or _not so much_, or _not unjust_, or _not great_, or _not
dishonourable_.
A third from the _recompense_: as, _I did him harm, but withal I did him
honour_.
A fourth from the _excuse_; as, _It was error_, _mischance_, or
_constraint_.
A fifth from the _intention_; as, _One thing was done, another meant_.
A sixth from the _comprehension_ of the accuser; as, _What I have done,
the accuser has done the same_, or _his father_, _kinsman_, or _friend_.
A seventh from the _comprehension_ of those that are in reputation; as,
_What I did, such and such have done the same, who nevertheless are good
men_.
An eighth from _comparison_ with such as have been falsely accused or
wrongfully suspected, and nevertheless found upright.
A ninth from _recrimination_; as, _The accuser is a man of ill life, and
therefore not to be believed_.
A tenth from that the _judgment_ belongs to another place, or time; as,
_I have already answered_, or _am to answer elsewhere to this matter_.
An eleventh from _crimination_ of the crimination: as, _It serves only
to pervert judgment_.
A twelfth, which is common both to crimination and purgation, and is
taken from _some sign_; as, _Teucer is not to be believed, because his
mother was Priam’s sister_. On the other side, _Teucer is to be
believed, because his father was Priam’s enemy_.