Four-fifths of ancient rhetoric is omitted in the Treatise.
Rhetoric in Sherry’s work has lost its ancient meaning.
It still was an age of Latin, and Sherry in part recognized this by his alternate Latin and English movement in his second rhetoric on style published in 1555.
Accordingly, the Treatise neatly fits into the category of a Renaissance rhetoric on style.
It is this latter truncated version of rhetoric that the Treatise continues in the Renaissance.
Yet it is also a mirror of one variation of rhetoric which came to be called the rhetoric of style.
However, in England, about the time of Bede, arose a limited concept that rhetoric is mainly style, particularly that of the figures.
More elaborate than the Treatise, it too suggests that rhetoric is decoration.
A specimen of city rhetoric is given in the shoeblack; the country mendicant's eloquence is of a totally different species.
I am sure he will manage the ancient figures of rhetoric better than I should; however, if I can fight behind his shield I shall not shun the combat.
The rhetoric of my tenants succeeded in some instances; and again I was mortified by Mr. M'Leod's silence.
The chain of Silence was a sort of practical figure of rhetoricamong the ancient Irish.
Though this ode is found in the Vatican manuscript, I am much inclined to agree in this argument against its authenticity: for though the dawnings of the art of rhetoric might already have appeared, the first who gave it any celebrity was.
The Times Reporter Was taken poorly, and retired; Which made him cut Hat's rhetoric shorter, Than justice to the case required.
This last argument had indeed some effect on Jones, and while he was weighing it the landlord threw all the rhetoric of which he was master into the same scale.
Hence I was more grieved than surprised when I heard that an intelligent pupil, whom I have since been obliged to expel for his bad disposition, described the professor of rhetoric as a ‘fin de siècle’ priest.
Worms-Clavelin and Abbé Guitrel, professor of sacred rhetoric at the high seminary, conversed in the goldsmith’s office.
She is justice,’ my father, professor of rhetoric at the college of Saint-Omer, used to say to me.
Worms-Clavelin, the Jewish préfet, devotes himself, and allow me to enumerate the only too definite complaints which I have to bring against the professor of rhetoric at the high seminary.
His heart swelled at the idea that sacred rhetoric was taught by this Guitrel, a man with neither morals nor learning.
The professor of rhetoric at the high seminary, M.
IV It is true that Abbé Guitrel, professor of sacred rhetoricat the high seminary of …, was intimately connected with M.
The facts which it behoves you to know, Monseigneur, relate to Abbé Guitrel, professor of rhetoric at the high seminary.
Lord Macaulay[21] uses a very rampant rhetoric in his encyclopaedic {91} mention of the paint she put upon her cheeks.
Cicero held an unfavourable opinion of his methods, which were approved by Quintilian, although he considers that Hermagoras neglected the practical side of rhetoric for the theoretical.
There was a time when to doubt any jot or tittle in the scenery and rhetoric of Hell would have been thought a kind of atheism, and a world without Hell would have seemed to many religious minds almost as lonely as a world without God.
They are all noise and passion, roaring echoes of the mob-soul, rhetoric and not reason, thunder-storms instead of light.
And, in another passage, Demosthenes initiates him into the means of obtaining power over the people: Interlard your rhetoric with lumps Of mawkish sweet, and greasy flattery.
Rhetoric it may be, but it is the rhetoric of the sea and the wheat field.
They are not only rarely appropriate, as discourses addressed to educated young men upon the threshold of active life, but are models of logical thought, and graceful rhetoric worthy the study of all ministers.
Professor of Sacred Rhetoric in Union Theological Seminary, New York City, says: "The Cambridge Sermons have both refreshed and edified me in a high degree.
The prelate had already become the constant butt of the "Rhetoric Chambers.
In the case of this particular satire, he informed Philip that he could swear it came from the pen of Renard, although, for the sake of deception, the rhetoric comedians had been employed.
The rhetoric comedies were not admirable in an aesthetic point of view, but they were wrathful and sincere.
But much of the essay is mere meaningless rhetoric and bombast, which sounds like the effusion of a boyish rhapsodist.
In 1865 he was selected for the chair of rhetoric and English literature at Edinburgh, and during the early years of his professorship actively promoted the movement for the university education of women.
Footnote 15: The writer of the treatise on Rhetoricaddressed to C.
Lucan and Juvenal recall in their vigorous rhetoric the masculine tone and fervid feeling of the old Roman character, liberalised by the progress of thought and education.
Similar vestiges are found, imbedded in the harsh and jagged diction of Persius, and though not to the same extent, in the polished rhetoric of Juvenal.
By its close contact with real experience and its close adherence to the national standard of virtue, it might educate men for the duties of citizens more effectually than the teaching of Greek rhetoric or philosophy.
But this colouring of their style is very different from the artificial rhetoric of the literature of the Empire.
The attraction which the artifices of rhetoric had for his mind is as noticeable in his style as a similar attraction is in the speeches of Thucydides.
We think in German forms: the plan of phrases, their development, their balance, and all the rhetoric of music and the grammar of composition comes to us from foreign thought, slowly elaborated by German masters.
And in this I find him exercising the same consistent instinct of good sense and sincerity, the same art of development, the same seventeenth and eighteenth century principles of classic rhetoric that he applies to his music.
Then Conversation and Rhetoric come before the court, each having an action for defamation to bring against Syrus the essayist, who of course is Lucian himself (p.
For rhetoric loved to talk, expatiate and declaim, while dialectic strove to refute by the employment of question and answer, often in the briefest form.
No writer shows a juster scorn of all mere rhetoric and exaggeration.
A noted English historian (Freeman) while visiting Vassar College went in to hear the rhetoric class.
In writing your compositions, put your rhetoric behind you and tell what you feel and know, and describe what you have seen.
But let me tell you that very little conscious rhetoric has gone into the composition of those same writings.
The figures ofrhetoric are not paper flowers to be sewed upon the texture of your composition; they have no value unless they are real flowers which sprout naturally from your heart.
Shakespeare can teach you all there is to be learned of the art of expression, and the rhetoric of a live trout leaping and darting with such ease and sureness cannot well be beaten.
But it was of a piece with grammar and rhetoric as then taught--all preposterous studies viewed as helps toward correct writing and speaking.
Valuable as the study of rhetoric undoubtedly is, it can go but a little way in making you successful writers.
Viewed purely as literature, they have faults enough; and the first of these, so characteristic of the Classic Age, is that they abound in fine rhetoric but lack simplicity.
In a strict sense, these eloquent speeches are not literature, to delight the reader and to suggest ideas, but studies in rhetoric and in mental concentration.
It is needless to multiply extracts illustrative of Milton's opinions on the Church; behind the enormous wealth of rhetoric and invective poured forth in his pamphlets, the opinions that he holds are few and simple.
It serves the uses of rhetoric rather than of logic, and by the fervour of its repetitions and enlargements unfits his prose for the plainer purposes of argument or exposition.
That his rhetoric operating on her inexperience would ultimately influence her in his favour.
The Rhetoric of Cicero was probably the spurious books Ad Herennium.
Christian writers are in great majority; but we find also the Eclogues of Virgil, the Rhetoric of Cicero, the History of Homer, that is, the works ascribed to Dictys and Dares.
He studied both rhetoric and medicine at Alexandria and at Athens.
He began as a teacher of rhetoric in Rome, but, although he was the friend of Cicero, he was not very successful, and abandoned this study for the practice of medicine.
I gave him details of all that was necessary in rhetoric and criticism for his use: he profited by my advice, and his genius assisted him more effectually than my lessons.
