The ethics of rhetoric

by Richard M. Weaver

[110] Stern, Writings, p. 231.

[111] Stern, Writings, p. 728.

[112] Ibid., p. 710.

[113] Op. cit., III, 610.

[114] Stern, Writings, p. 423.

[115] Ibid., p. 649.

[116] Stern, Writings, p. 452.

[117] To mention a simple example, the sarcasm uttered as a pleasantry sometimes leaves a wound because its formal signification is not entirely removed by the intonation of the user or by the speech situation.

[118] The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library ed., New York, 1937), p. 53.

[119] “On the Physical Basis of Life,” Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews (New York, 1883), pp. 123-24.