Cicero on Oratory and Orators

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• Contains Cicero's De Oratore and Brutus, influential sources over the centuries for ideas on rhetoric and train­ing for public leadership. The De Orat... Lees meer

Puritan Rhetoric

Eugene E White

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• The nature of Puritanism in America and the role of emotion in religion is the subject of this important and useful collection of five religious orati... Lees meer

The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately, Revised Edition

James L Golden, Edward P J Corbett

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• Hugh Blair, George Campbell, and Richard Whately, whose works were first published in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, constituted the great tr... Lees meer

Selected Essays on Rhetoric

Thomas de Quincey

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• The five essays presented here-- Rhetoric , Style , Language , Conversation , and Greek Literature --were published together for the first time in The... Lees meer

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Hugh Blair

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• This new edition of Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, edited by Linda Ferreira-Buckley and S. Michael Halloran, answers the need f... Lees meer

The Philosophy of Rhetoric

George Campbell

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• Here, after a quarter century of additional study and reflection, Bitzer presents a new critical edition of George Campbell's classic. Bitzer provides... Lees meer

The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy

John T. Harwood

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• Makes accessible to modern readers the 17th-century rhetorics of Thomas Hob­bes (1588-1677) and Bernard Lamy (1640-1715) Hobbes' A Briefe of the Art o... Lees meer

Demosthenes' on the Crown

James J. Murphy, Lois Peters Agnew

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• Demosthenes' speech On the Crown (330 B.C.E.), in which the master orator spectacularly defended his public career, has long been recognized as a mast... Lees meer

Arguments in Rhetoric Against Quintilian

Peter Ramus

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• First published in 1986, this book offers the Latin text and English translation of a pivotal work by one of the most influential and controversial wr... Lees meer

The Selected Writings of John Witherspoon

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• Considered the first significant teacher of rhetoric in America, John Witherspoon also introduced Scottish moral philosophy to this country and as pre... Lees meer

Elements of Rhetoric

Richard Whately

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• Direct, comprehensive, well organized, simple in statement, Elements of Rhetoric is in all respects well fitted to fulfill its assigned role as a text... Lees meer