Following Cicero's precept that the orator should be a proficient reasoner, he prepared his young rhetoricians by a course in logic, and completed their discipline with exercises in disputation.
The rules of the rhetoricians were learned; the works of profane or Christian orators were read and imitated.
What they could do, was simply as ministerial agents and rhetoricians to prosecute any general movement, when the national arm had cloven a channel and opened the road before them.
Aristides' works were highly esteemed by his contemporaries; they were much used for school instruction, and distinguished rhetoricians wrote commentaries upon them.
That the first stylists should look to the rhetoricians for their models was inevitable, and of these there were two kinds available; the classical orators and the alliterative homilies of the Early English.
In each case the grammarians began the battle, and after the rhetoricians had joined in, the former retired and stood on the benches, in order to watch the fortunes of the fray.
The Rhetoricians call this an Hypallage, because one word is substituted for another: but the Grammarians call it a Metonymy, because the words are shifted and interchanged.
Dionysius also of Magnesia, Aeschilus of Cnidos, and Xenocles of Adramyttus, who were esteemed the first Rhetoricians of Asia, were continually with me.
Rhetoricians are seldom free from occasional extravagance, and Burke fell under the common danger of his kind.
Early in the first century the censors issued an edict forbidding certain Latin rhetoricians to teach.
These Latin rhetoricians were mere ignorant pretenders, inefficient imitators of their Greek rivals, from whom the Roman youth were not likely to learn any thing but impudence.
A crown of laurel would seem to have been the outward sign and symbol of a degree in Rhetoric, and rhetoricians were occasionally styled Poets Laureate.
Mnesiphilus, the most eminent of these immediate successors of Solon, was the instructor of Themistocles, the very antipodes of rhetoricians and refiners.
Juvenal, writing at the same instant, might term him wealthy, in comparison of the rhetoricians who were starving around him; and count him a peculiar favorite of fortune.
Roman Senate directed the Praetor to see "that no philosophers or rhetoricians be suffered in Rome" (R.
Imperial Treasury, the salaries of grammarians and rhetoricians [27] at Rome.
Praetor to see that "no philosophers or rhetoricians be suffered at Rome" (R.
The Imagination and Elocution of this Set of Rhetoricians is wonderful.
Among the innumerable rhetoricians of this age one only requires formal notice, Lucius Annaeus Seneca of Cordova, the father of the famous philosopher, and the grandfather of the poet Lucan.
To the age of the rhetoricians succeeded the age of the scholars.
They were followed by the scholiasts, and they by the mere rhetoricians of the last Greek schools, such as Hermogenes and Aphthonius.
During his censorship Crassus suppressed the newly founded schools of Latin rhetoricians (Aulus Gellius xv.
It departed not merely from the manner of the rhetoricians and the physical philosophers (as far as we know them, not excluding even Demokritus), but also from Sokrates and the Sokratic school.
He disapproved of the poets as promulgators of mischievous fables and prejudices, the rhetoricians as furnishing weapons for the misleading career of political ambition, the dialecticians as wasting their time in useless puzzles.
Just as rhetoriciansgave to their pupils orations to learn by heart, so these dialectical teachers gave out dialogues to learn by heart upon those subjects which they thought most likely to become the topics of discourse.
In the vestibule of the Palatine temple, waiting for the morning appearance of the Emperor, rhetoricians discussed the meaning of an adverb.
Similarly Paul's reply is relevant as an explanation of his reason for refusing to use the methods of professionalrhetoricians in teaching his spiritual truths.
This was no doubt strengthened by the common practice among professional rhetoricians of writing speeches on both sides of imaginary cases.
He claims to have been during his time in Gaul one of the rhetoricians who could command high fees; and his descriptions of himself as resigning his place close about his lady's (i.
There have been many definitions of style; but the disputes of the rhetoricians do not concern us.
And as to the labouring of it, the emulation of Aristotle with the rhetoricians of his time, and the experience of Cicero, hath made them in their works of rhetoric exceed themselves.
To their success in this respect their alliance with the rhetoricians probably largely contributed; but in other ways it hastened the downfall of the school.
Seneca the rhetorician (father of the philosopher) collected many of the sayings of the rhetoricians of his time.
The rhetoricianswere a kind of itinerant lecturers, who went about from city to city, delivering harangues that were often received with the keenest interest.
The habits that were formed in the schools of the rhetoricians were sometimes carried into the churches, and we have notices of preachers (especially St. Chrysostom) being vociferously applauded.
For a similar reason all rhetoricians had been banished from the Republic.
Some of the rhetoricians recited only harangues prepared with the most elaborate care, others were ready debaters, and they travelled from city to city, challenging opponents to discuss some subtle and usually frivolous question.
Much curious information about the rhetoricians is collected in Martha, Moralistes de l'Empire Romain, and in Nisard, Etudes sur les Poetes Latins de la Decadence, art.
It would appear, from this last authority, that the rhetoricianswere twice expelled.
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