| 单词 | rhetorician |
| 例句 | The great forward gallop of industrial capitalism has brought new tasks for the rhetorician’s tool kit, too. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Having expected childlike natives, empty vessels waiting to be filled by the Word, the Franciscans instead found themselves fencing with skilled rhetoricians, proud of their intellectual traditions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “All the rhetorician’s rules,” wrote Samuel Butler, “teach but the naming of his tools.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z If the philosopher deals with knowledge, the rhetorician is much more interested in belief. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z What Disraeli said of Gladstone was also true of Churchill: he was “a sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z And the orator need know nothing of medicine himself, hmm? socrates: Then, when the rhetorician is more persuasive than the physician, the ignorant is more persuasive with the ignorant than he who has knowledge? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Aristotle said that the basic job of the rhetorician was to “discover the best available means of persuasion.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Very smart answer, Mark. In Socrates' Greece they would have considered you a fine rhetorician. Is it ethical to get every secret out in the open?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z That’s not meant in a nice way; but could there be a better epitaph for a rhetorician? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Cicero was a model of the practical rhetorician. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The Greek mythologists are not rhetoricians and are notably free from sentimentality. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His most sustained attack on rhetoric comes in his dialogue Gorgias, where he imagines Socrates giving the eponymous rhetorician the third degree.* Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She’s a skillful rhetorician, gracefully navigating her way around partisan land mines by talking about babies and ancient Greece. When It Comes to Politics, Be Afraid. But Not Too Afraid. 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Johnson is a spirited and skillful rhetorician, juggling a profusion of historical facts while never allowing the flame of his anger to dim. Rivers Merge in St. Louis. So Do Racism, Violence and Exclusion. 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Though it sounds odd today, the OED has examples of trumpery brooch, trumpery performance, trumpery new house, trumpery rhetorician and trumpery quarrel. Trump really does stand for B.S.: “Trumpery,” an old-fashioned word that’s proving useful today 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Q. In your article, you say there were two sides to Justice Scalia’s literary personality: “the humble rhetorician and the scolding pedagogue.” Recalling Scalia, a Literary Stylist Who Scorned ‘Jiggery-Pokery’ 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Where is the celebrated rhetorician, famed for speaking in perfect paragraphs sculpted from flawless sentences? The boor's head 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z The comic playwright Aristophanes in the 5th century BC pointed the finger at those clever rhetoricians whose weasel, winning words made what was in fact bad seem good, and vice versa. What makes a great speech? 2011-02-26T00:07:28Z Jacobson has many talents – as a rhetorician, a mud-slinger, a purveyor of fine phrases and sprightly patter, as an indefatigable singer of the song of himself. Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson – review 2012-08-30T07:00:42Z Intriguingly, there was also a direct appeal to the great rhetoricians of antiquity. Gordon Brown invokes Demosthenes and Cicero - badly 2010-05-04T17:36:00Z Roman noblemen gathered under the auditorium's 13-meter-high arched ceiling to hear rhetoricians, lawyers and writers recite their works. ArtsBeat: Ancient Arts Center Discovered Under Rome's Piazza Venezia 2012-12-28T21:30:52Z Johnson the undergraduate classicist, Eton rhetorician and middlebrow biographer was fond of making quotations, stitching together attitudes and throwing out highfalutin references to fascinate and flatter down-home audiences. Perspective | Exit, Boris Johnson. Sort of — he’s still hogging the stage. 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z A motor-voter law passed — finally signed by President Clinton after two vetoes by Bush père — but enforcement lagged, most of all at the state and local level much beloved by GOP rhetoricians. From our archives: Todd Gitlin on "Back to the civil rights barricades" after the Bush-Gore election 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z In important ways, Dr. Mazzucato’s work resembles that of a literary critic or rhetorician as much as an economist. Meet the Leftish Economist With a New Story About Capitalism 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Adoring colleagues on the right of the Conservative party hang on Jacob Rees-Mogg’s every word in the House of Commons, considering him one of Brexit’s foremost rhetoricians. 'Staggeringly silly': critics tear apart Jacob Rees-Mogg's new book 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z Franklin was a gifted rhetorician and singer, and he prospered as the pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church. Aretha Franklin, who defined an era as the Queen of Soul, dies at 76 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z With that single addition, Trump makes it clear that his dearest wish, as a rhetorician, is to switch into fluent villainese. Trump vs. Comey: Hope Against Hope 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z They are powerful themes, particularly when espoused to the Democratic faithful by a skilled rhetorician like Mr Perriello. Turmoil in Washington, DC clouds Virginia’s governor race 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Usually one of rap’s sharpest rhetoricians, he clumsily invited further accusations of antisemitism, wailing that “crucifixion ain’t no fiction”. Public Enemy – 10 of the best 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Zidane may not be a tactician or a visionary; his presence is so brooding that it is impossible to imagine him as a tub-thumping rhetorician. At Real Madrid, Zinedine Zidane’s Gift Is Wrapped in Charisma 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The term is what Ancient Greek rhetoricians would have called an “exonym”: a term for another group, which signals that the speaker does not belong to it. Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy | Moira Weigel 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z And they did so because Trump is a brilliant and careful rhetorician. ‘Make America Great Again’ – why are liberals losing the war of soundbites? 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z That President Obama, one of the most soaring rhetoricians ever to occupy the Oval Office, would look to Don Jr. for pointers or catchphrases is laughable. 5 stupidest right-wing moments this week: Donald’s prolonged temper tantrum 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z It’s a 14-karat word that epitomizes rap as a rhetorician’s playground. Donald Trump Versus the ‘Haters’ 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z “No toil, no honor,” wrote the rhetorician Lucian in the second century A.D. The Greek Hero at the Gym 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z He was just an ambitious and successful rhetorician and teacher who found that being a successful rhetorician was too shallow for him. Interview: David Brooks on sin, Augustine and the state of his soul 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z He was a celebrated rhetorician, a satirist, the author of several books of natural history, and a playwright. The Man to Know in Ancient Rome 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z It's an illusion to think he was just a rhetorician, a guy who skated over the issues. How Winston Churchill achieved greatness despite his flaws 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z But even putting these relevant details aside, the trouble for Republican rhetoricians is that by the party’s own standards, Obama is succeeding beautifully. Meeting the Tim Pawlenty standard 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z From a political perspective, it was a rhetoricians’ case study on how to stay on-message. Rick Scott discovers the value of repetition 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Can this great rhetorician bring peace by deeds rather than words? What America Means to Israel 2013-04-22T08:45:00Z Is it coincidence that so many great political rhetoricians came to a bloody end? We need great speeches in this time of national drama 2012-08-27T20:00:06Z They were first codified by the Royal Society of London in a 1667 booklet opposing the elitism of rhetoricians. Scientists as writers 2012-08-15T19:15:00.177Z Philosophy, in the hands of the rhetoricians, had become more popular. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z The wandering sophist and rhetorician would find a hearing no less than the musical artist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z We can by no means agree with Mr. Morley that Burke was free from the vicious tendencies of the rhetorician, not to say the rhetorical Celt. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z It reduced the poor king at last to pit against Napoleon Bonaparte a young rhetorician of defective health, William Pitt, the son of the great minister. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Himerius is more of a poet than a rhetorician, and his declamations are valuable as giving prose versions or even the actual words of lost poems by Greek lyric writers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z He had become famous as a sophist and rhetorician, skilled in the laborious frivolities of the profession. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z His style is the very opposite of that of Isocrates and the rhetoricians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z He loathes the "pastiche," the purveyors of "canned" classics, the chilly rhetoricians who set too much store on conventional learning. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The other gave to it a transcendent intellect, adorned with the genius of a poet, the graces of a rhetorician, and the embellishments of a polite scholar. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Like many brilliant men of his day he took to the strolling life of the rhetorician, going from city to city and giving displays of his powers of language, extemporizing wonderful combinations of words. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z A curious contrast to the Cynic was the philosophic rhetorician, who gathered around his chair all that was most brilliant in Roman or Athenian society. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z In Dionysius of Halicarnassus the rhetoric was combined with an extensive study of the sources; but the influence of the Greek rhetoricians upon Roman prose was deplorable from the standpoint of science. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z V. Langlois, “is learned, unctuous, ornate, florid, a mysticism which never indulges in dangerous temerities; it is the orthodox mysticism of a subtle and prudent rhetorician.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z The scholar admires their learning, the philosopher their penetration, the rhetorician their art, the poet their imagery, the million their politics. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z He was launched somehow on the career of his choice and became a rhetorician. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The rhetoricians were a kind of itinerant lecturers, who went about from city to city, delivering harangues that were often received with the keenest interest. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z "Dollars melted like the mellow words of an ancient rhetorician, eh?" Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z In his early youth he went to Alexandria, where he spent twelve years partly as a pupil of Theon, a rhetorician, and partly as a professor of rhetoric. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z It displays the rhetorician rather than the poet and, like his conception and structure, gives evidence of an ingenious innovator adapting Seneca. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z His father was a rich man of equestrian rank, a rhetorician, who has left several volumes of rhetorical compositions on imaginary cases. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z 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. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The professional orators, the silver-tongued rhetoricians, had their innings at a later date. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z His fragments show familiarity with Homer, with the works of the Greek physical and ethical philosophers, with the systems of the rhetoricians, and some acquaintance with the writings of Plato, Archilochus, Euripides, and Aesop. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The orator and the rhetorician are always elbowing the dramatist off the scene. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The world was full of Greek philosophers and rhetoricians, lecturing and declaiming, to their great profit and glory, but Plutarch was content to stay at home, to be magistrate and priest. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The predominance of the subtle intellect of Greece, and the multiplication of rhetoricians, had converted the philosophy into a school of disputation and of casuistry. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Sometimes they seem impelled to fight for fighting's sake, or, as their leaders and rhetoricians vaguely say, to fulfil their destinies.... The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Historians and rhetoricians have vied with each other in setting forth the glories of Pitt's supreme years. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Eventually, rhetoricians such as Campbell and Blair were to successfully blend the old and the new, but the elocutionists found fertile ground in delivery alone. A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759) 2012-01-01T03:00:09.283Z Everything again is centripetal; Tertullian is too much in earnest to lose himself in the endless periods of the rhetorician, or in the charming fancies dear to the eclectic and especially to contemporary Platonists. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Hadrian was fond of the society of learned men—poets, scholars, rhetoricians and philosophers—whom he alternately humoured and ridiculed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z "Christopher Hitchens - the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant - died today at the age of 62," Vanity Fair said. Polemical journalist and atheist Christopher Hitchens dead at 62 2011-12-16T06:50:32Z The nearest approach to any formulation is to be found in an applied logic set forth in the precepts and rules of the rhetoricians and sophists. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Many feasts were given by the rhetoricians of all the cities in the Low Countries, or nearly all. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z He was not an orator, but was something of a rhetorician. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z To comprehend that world the study of Isocrates is indispensable; for in an age dominated by rhetoric he is the prince of rhetoricians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The explanation of figurative expressions, again, must be left to the rhetorician, and definition to the lexicographer; the grammarian has no more to do with them than he has with the canons of criticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Mr. Wallace is somewhat too much of a rhetorician, and he has a few defects of manner which, from this frequent repetition, he seems to regard as beauties. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z At Constantinople, at Nicomedia, at Pergamos, at Ephesus, we hear of his attendance on philosophers, on rhetoricians, on teachers of all kinds. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z And of rhetoricians there was a whole troop, in no respect inferior to the Cynics. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z The French rhetoricians have a maxim, that, in literary composition, “nothing is beautiful which is not true.” The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z To a clay compounded chiefly of the worldling and the rhetorician there is added a real spark of Promethean fire. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Obeying also the other rule which he found in Horace's codification of the laws of dramatic poetry, the Hispano-Roman rhetorician was careful always to cut up his play into five parts. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Philosophers, poets, or rhetoricians, all who follow him, are as worthless as their master, and however admirable they may be in their art, in love they are devoid of knowledge. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z Athenæus then, having delivered this lecture on water, like a rhetorician, stopped awhile, and then began again. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z That clever rhetorician knew well enough that these frauds and violences were no new thing in Greek politics. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z A man possessing such a lively imagery of ideas should never affect the arts of a vain rhetorician, whose excellence consists only in a beautiful arrangement of words. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 2011-06-08T02:00:20.907Z Whence and how did the accomplished rhetorician learn that those two persecutors were active co-operators, or that they were in any degree concerned “in getting up” the excitement against her? Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z Our baffled rhetorician saw that his only safety was to abstain from using the great instrument of his art, which was now locked up in silence. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z This period may therefore be compared with the later stages of Italian humanism in the fifteenth century; and the later humanists were the masters and models of these early English rhetoricians. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z This is the sort of rhetorician with whom we have to deal, and who regarded the simple and trenchant Phocion as the most dangerous 'pruner of his periods.' Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z He replied: “He is a great rhetorician, but he is not an orator.” The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z The theologian and the philosopher strolled along, smoking in silence, while the rhetorician struck off the heads of the thistles by the wayside with his stick. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z When the verse flowed beyond the mechanism of his rule of scanning, and the true touch of nature beyond the sympathy of his own emotions, the rhetorician showed the ear of Midas. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The writers of the first stage, as might be expected, concerned themselves but little with the theory of poetry, beyond repeating here and there the commonplaces they found in the Italian rhetoricians. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z I'm conscious of my sin against the rhetoricians in liking that, for it jolts the reader out of the Abyss and181 back to earth. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z He was a genius, they cried, a budding rhetorician, a poet. Life of Saint Monica 2011-04-25T02:00:07.817Z The rhetorician went on one side, lay on the ground, and groped for a path; but his hands encountered only fox-holes. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Critical learning was yet new in our literature; it had taken its birth in Italy, among a crowd of philosophers, rhetoricians and philologists, busied in developing the true principles of every species of literary composition. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z As if a man might not be a clever mechanical performer and yet a commonplace artist; a consummate rhetorician, and a poor writer, or a cold speaker! Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z The Greek rhetoricians, indeed, had been expelled, as well as the philosophers, towards the close of the preceding century; but, in the year 661, Plotius Gallus, a Latin rhetorician, opened a declaiming school at Rome. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z If he had, he would be a rhetorician; whereas he is a statesman. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z The old woman found a special resting-place for each student; the rhetorician she put in a shed, the theologian in an empty store-room, and the philosopher in a sheep's stall. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z His magnificent imaginations of good things to come have also served the purpose, in the general development of sociology, of what rhetoricians call excitation. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z You have quoted Augustin and his account of the destruction of a hundred cities; but remember the African rhetorician often contradicts himself and was prodigal of exaggerations in his writings. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z He adduces, also, many instances of phrases unusual among the classics, and of conceits which betray the rhetorician or sophist. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Why, then, has this passage always been praised by the rhetoricians? A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z The “rhetoricians” walked in a more orderly way. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Philosophic discourses took the place of fervent testimony bearing and the arts of the rhetorician and controversial debater supplanted the true eloquence of religious conviction. The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History 2011-03-09T03:00:46.980Z Early in the days of the Roman Empire, the rhetoricians, by attempting to teach eloquence by rule, so corrupted it, that the Emperors found it necessary to banish them from Rome. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Erasmus seems to have been the first who suspected the whole to be the declamatory composition of some rhetorician or sophist. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z In his native city he studied under his relative the sophist Chrysanthius, and while still a youth went to Athens, where he became a favourite pupil of Proaeresius the rhetorician. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z 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 Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z His style of teaching and speaking was the opposite of that of a rhetorician or professional orator. Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. 2011-03-04T03:01:05.837Z It is free from all the commonplaces of fine writing; has nothing of the formal contrivance of the rhetorician, the balanced period, the pointed turn, the recurring cadence. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z When the ephebia instead of a military college became a university, the military instructors were replaced by philosophers, rhetoricians, grammarians and artists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Although the author borrowed from Homer and other Attic poets, the chief source of his phraseology was the rhetorician Choricius of Gaza. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z At that time all the roads were thronged with grammarians, rhetoricians, philosophers, and theologians. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Such men are rare; the records of such men are precious, and require the embellishments of no rhetorician. Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. 2011-03-04T03:01:05.837Z "The frozen regions of Canada," the great rhetorician's expression in this place, has become a stereotyped phrase with declaimers. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z In his own person he has brought us—why, whom you will—critic, rhetorician, geometer, painter, trainer, prophet, rope-dancer, doctor, sorcerer. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z His particular admiration among the college professors was the stately rhetorician, Edward Everett; and this predilection had much to do with his early ambition to be a professor of rhetoric and elocution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The rhetorician Tiberius Gorobetz had not yet the right to wear a moustache, to drink brandy, or to smoke tobacco. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z He was trained as a rhetorician and spent some time at Carthage. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z That left Medvedev, a far less nimble rhetorician, to fumble for an explanation. How the Airport Bombing Left Moscow at a Loss for Words 2011-01-24T22:20:00Z He came to a land where there were already men of erudition and "rhetoricians" who scoffed at his lack of education. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z The town of Antwerp gave a ton of gold to be given in prizes, which were shared among 1893 rhetoricians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Bion, when a young man, was sold as a slave to a rhetorician, who gave him his freedom and made him his heir. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z ATHENAEUS, of Naucratis in Egypt, Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourished about the end of the 2nd and the beginning of the 3rd century A.D. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" From the time of his death till the extinction of ancient classical culture, there was a regular succession of rhetoricians and grammarians who lectured and wrote treatises on his various poems. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil It mastered not only the faculty of utterance, but the whole mind and life of the rhetorician. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Datheen was not a rhetorician, but a person of humble origin, who wrote in the vulgar tongue, and his hymns spread far and wide among the people. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Aristides’ works were highly esteemed by his contemporaries; they were much used for school instruction, and distinguished rhetoricians wrote commentaries upon them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" He travelled much when young, and seems at first to have settled at Rome as a rhetorician. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Roman literature from a comparatively early period produced a large number of grammarians, commentators, and rhetoricians. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil But unfortunately a mass of evidence goes to show that in many cases the lecturing philosopher became a mere showy rhetorician. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Against the crowd of rhetoricians and psalm-makers of the early part of the 16th century she stands out in relief as the one poet of real genius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z In particular, rhetoricians appeared to him to have neglected argument in comparison with passion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" Bain was at once grammarian, rhetorician, educationalist, and logician, but his fame rests on his contributions to psychology. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Even by a rhetorician of the second century the question was discussed whether Virgil ‘was more a poet or an orator111.’ The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil He treats Euphrates as a rhetorician rather than as a philosopher with a solemn message to deliver. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius And not in these important places only, but in almost every little town, the rhetoricians exerted their influence, mainly in what we may call a social direction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Disgusted with his failure, Apollonius withdrew to Rhodes, where he was very successful as a rhetorician, and a revised edition of his epic was well received. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" APHTHONIUS, of Antioch, Greek sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the second half of the 4th century A.D., or even later. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Even the Latin of the earlier Humanitarians reminds us of the subtle vapidness of monkish language, almost as much as of the artistic phrases of ancient rhetoricians. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. Juvenal is a rhetorician with a fiery temperament, who will colour and exaggerate, if he will not invent. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Roemer Visscher stands at the threshold of the new Renaissance literature, himself practising the faded arts of the rhetoricians, but pointing by his counsel and his conversation to the naturalism of the great period. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z We need not go any further to prove the entire falsehood of the account commonly given by the panegyrical rhetoricians of Athens. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 He began at Swinburne: “O, Swinburne,” said Morris, “is a rhetorician; my masters have been Keats and Chaucer, for they make pictures.” The Trembling of the Veil Gilded youths were hastening to the schools of the rhetoricians or of the gladiators, both alike deemed necessary instructors of these pinks of fashion. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs And, like all rhetoricians, he is often inconsistent. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Chateaubriand ranks rather as a great rhetorician than as a great poet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Right opinion may be produced by persuasion and sophistry, by the arts of the orator and rhetorician. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy “No,” was the answer, “Dante makes pictures, but Milton, though he had a great earnest mind, expressed himself as a rhetorician.” The Trembling of the Veil Numerous specimens of his declamations will be found in the works of Seneca the rhetorician. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Seneca is too often a rhetorician, in search of striking effects and vivid phrase. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Peace, then, rhetoricians! false threnodists of false liberty! hollow chanters over the ashes of a hollow republic! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 A son of Naples he was a born rhetorician; especially adapted for the cultivation of oratory, and argument was the course of study followed in the school of the Jesuits. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle Next comes Master Oenobarbus, the theological rhetorician, celebrated for the orthodoxy of his religious controversies with the University of Paris. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades No orator, and even no rhetorician, he seemed to despise alike the lustre of imagination and the graces of language. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 He had the rhetorician’s love of fine, telling phrases, and startling effects. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Clerks, soldiers, women, officers, rhetoricians, monks and slaves crossed one another in great haste, while several bishops, anxious to present the first homages to the Emperor, were speeding towards the peristyle of the palace. The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century CALLISTRATUS, Greek sophist and rhetorician, probably flourished in the 3rd century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" He was an eloquent speaker, but can never rank as an orator with the rhetoricians of the last century. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. He did not try to imitate the graces of the rhetorician. The Bible Story And he is more a rhetorician than a poet. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The Emperor loves as much to be surrounded by women as by soldiers and abbots, without forgetting the learned men, the rhetoricians, the dialecticians, the instructors, the peripatetic pedagogues and the grammarians. The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century According to him, history is philosophy teaching by examples, and this idea he has carried out from the point of view of the Greek rhetorician. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" Greek historians, geographers, scientists, rhetoricians and philosophers wrote not only for Greeks, but for the educated circles of the whole empire. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. The rhetorician would deceive his neighbours, The sentimentalist himself; while art Is but a vision of reality. The Wild Swans at Coole They were followed by the scholiasts, and they by the mere rhetoricians of the last Greek schools, such as Hermogenes and Aphthonius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" We have schools of rhetoricians, geometers, and musicians. Roman Women They frequented the schools of rhetoricians and philosophers and the studios of artists, and sought in every way possible to make themselves interesting and indispensable to men. Greek Women The little rhetorician from Thessalonica, with his small and stealthy steps, has advanced farther than you with your proud strides. A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 After seeing the raving Hamlet of Mounet-Sully, the somber Hamlet of Irving, and the dreamy Hamlet of Wilson Barrett, I saw this evening Hamlet the philosopher, the rhetorician. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things They seemed weary, not of life but of reading; for Ausonius had been professor, rhetorician, tutor of princes, and poet. A Captive of the Roman Eagles He 174 expresses his contempt for the ordinary school rhetorician, the hair-splitting dialecticians and their “sense of inability to speak, since they dare not even pronounce their own name for fear of expressing themselves ambiguously.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" The Greek rhetoricians found in Helen a fruitful subject for panegyric, and made her synonymous with the Greek ideal of beauty and feminine perfection. Greek Women He observes that I begin my charge with the use of incense as the most notorious proof of their Paganism, and like an artful rhetorician, place my strongest argument in the front. A Treatise on Relics His assumption of lonely despair was not borne out by the subtle air he had of being in with all these people who were chaffering among themselves and applauding the rhetorician with his silver star. Captain Macedoine's Daughter Little, therefore, can be gained by tracing its historical development further, although it is not without interest to note the mode of feeling and the opinion of some later poets and rhetoricians. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion He is not a great rhetorician—his strength seems to be in his common sense. The London Pulpit The Mackerel poet who wrote those lines, my boy, may have been no rhetorician; but his theme was an inspiration giving him more than ordinary mastery of the figures of speech. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 The rhetorician straightened himself up and proceeded to the proof. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres The rhetorician adorns and popularises the ideas which have originated with others; he advocates policies which others have devised; he follows and expresses the sentiments which already prevail in his party. Studies in Contemporary Biography Clement professed to despise rhetoric, but was himself a rhetorician, and his style is turgid, involved and difficult. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Some consider this the work of a rhetorician of later date. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" The exact authenticity of these fuller texts is a matter of no importance, but their substance, whether it was the work of a Persian civil servant or of a Greek-Jew rhetorician, is most curious. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing And those Vagres sold me to a slave merchant, and he sold me again to the bishop of—" "The devil take this rhetorician! The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres And, indeed, it is probable that no great prose rhetorician has failed to pay the same homage to the charm of verbal melody and cadence. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects But the Countess was not rhetorician enough to know that choice words should be kept for perorations. When Ghost Meets Ghost Yet Napoleon III understood at least one aspect of the change which the years had brought better than the rhetorician of the Girondins or the poet of Hernani. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe Arguments to his speeches were drawn up by rhetoricians so distinguished as Numenius and Libanius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" And I will turn rhetorician, and you shall feed my classes.” Callista : a Tale of the Third Century Whatever effort the Roman government made to prevent the invasion of the Greek rhetorician was all in vain. Pedagogics as a System Born at Aquinum of humble but comfortably situated parents, he came to Rome as a rhetorician; though upon discovering his natural bent, turned to poetical satire. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The philosophers and rhetoricians, because of the disturbance they created, were expelled from Rome in the second century. History of Human Society The rhetoricians who imitated or analysed his style cared little for the criticism of his text. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" The jailor asks if they are not the two Greeks, her brother and the rhetorician, who had visited her before. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century The colonnaded streets are a well-known Syrian town feature, and the plan resembles that of Antioch, as described by the rhetorician Libanios, scarcely fifty years after the death of Diocletian. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia It is the defence made by rhetoricians instead of philosophers. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Young's treatment of it is too often declamatory; he drops the poet in the rhetorician and the wit. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) What was absurd in the more vigorous manifestations of the spirit does not vanish when its energy is lowered, and the rhetorician takes the place of the poet. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Seneca, the great rhetorician, was born at Cordova, in Spain, b.c. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer He is a pulpit rhetorician, so he goes boldly and recklessly to work. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) In passing now from the African school of Apologists to the Alexandrian, we leave the rhetoricians, and meet with the philosophers, Clement and Origen. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion In a Congress of impassioned rhetoricians he remains serene, moderate; his voice is for the more part subdued; in its most emotional abandonments there is a dry undertone, almost harsh. Dreamers of the Ghetto He is throughout a sentimentalist and a rhetorician. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) "Posterity is too often deceived by the vague hyperboles of poets and rhetoricians," says Macaulay, "who mistake the splendor of a court for the happiness of a people." Aztec Land The new world, which was so sapiently prophesied by rhetoricians, is now nigh thirty years old, and, for my part, I confess to surprise that it is not worse than it actually is. Another Sheaf And even the rhetoricians, whose art is a forensic one, and wholly directed to the people, still in giving their lessons use words which are, as it were, their peculiar private property. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero For all the rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name the tools.—Hudibras. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 As he grew up he drank deep of English literature, and sympathised with the grand republican pride of Milton—as sturdy a rebel as himself, and a still nobler because more serious rhetorician. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Certainly he was a logician and a rhetorician. Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems He doubtless will live as the poet of the heart long after greater rhetoricians and more philosophical poets have lost their influence. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History M. Do you, then, expect that I am to give you a regular peroration, like the rhetoricians, or shall I forego that art? The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero His father was a scholar, rhetorician, and poet of some distinction, and acted for a time as tutor to Domitian. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight Though not a poet or a philosopher, he was a born rhetorician. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) As he was acquainted with the poets and rhetoricians, so also was he acquainted with those writers who have handled philosophy. The Life of Cicero Volume II. If he had not predominantly that power which is called by the older rhetoricians amplification, he eminently had another, as rarely met with in perfection, the power of exact, unincumbered, logical statement. The History of Dartmouth College To indicate that the Treatise was part of a continuing school of rhetoric, we must consider a few rhetoricians subsequent to Sherry’s work. A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Quintilian came at an early age to Rome, where his father was a rhetorician. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors In everything that he wrote, however, we see the true rhetorician. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The famous schoolmaster, rhetorician and courtier of the early fourth century, was born at Bordeaux. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II Lucian was by education a rhetorician, by profession an itinerant lecturer and essayist. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity So much so, that the rhetorician who named his rules and tools was not out of rapport with the period. A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes In Asia he attended the leading rhetoricians, especially his old teacher Molo at Rhodes, who endeavoured to chasten the exuberance of his manner. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors To a clay compounded chiefly of the worldling and the rhetorician, there is added a real spark of Promethean fire. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete Again �sop halted, employing one of the familiar devices of rhetoricians, who lure their hearers to keener interest by such judicious pauses in the course of their exposition. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama There were also spacious porticoes for walking and conversing, halls and courts for athletic games and gladiatorial combats, apartments for the lectures and recitations of philosophers, rhetoricians and poets. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Seneca was the most eminent writer, rhetorician, and orator of his time. History of Education In the manner of a rhetorician he sometimes gives superabundant details. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Seats were also provided where the loungers might rest, and the philosophers and rhetoricians sit down for intellectual conversation. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles But when a preacher declares that he takes his stand and bases his gospel on the infallible Book, he is either a fool or—a rhetorician. The New Theology For after all that has been said of Bacon and his philosophy, he was a rhetorician rather than a philosopher. A History of Elizabethan Literature His education was conducted by his father, a celebrated rhetorician, to whom he owed the particular direction of his powers which afterward made him so famous. History of Education Seneca here gives a criticism of the rhetoricians of his time, with specimens of the style of each: i. praef. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Their style, which appears to be overloaded with flowery images, excited great admiration at the time, especially in the case of Chastellain, who was hailed by his contemporaries as a "supreme rhetorician." Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day He was very highly distinguished as a scholar and rhetorician while he lived, and his numerous writings have given him great celebrity since, in every age. Nero Makers of History Series It is indeed not in the remotest degree as a rhetorician that he arrests us in these unique tales. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations He extended a generous patronage to letters, and under his reign Quintilian, the great rhetorician, and Pliny, the naturalist, flourished. Ancient States and Empires Seneca treats only of those rhetoricians whom his sons had not themselves heard: i. praef. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors She was not a trained rhetorician; but when she had said what she had to say she was always contented to stop. A Red Wallflower Whether the fluent rhetorician foresaw his present position, whether perched on his slender ledge of power he now enjoys it, we need not stop to consider. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 To Thucydides and the old rhetoricians he was ardently devoted, and these, with personal instruction by the orator Is�us, did most to form his style. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History He put himself under the teaching of a famous rhetorician, Iænus, and profited by the discourses of Plato and Isocrates then in the height of their fame. Ancient States and Empires The young rhetorician glorifies his country, and when upon his march he encounters some historic name, by which his idea can be illustrated, he hastens to proclaim it, with all its titles to admiration. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 There was a class of rhetoricians and orators at Rome in the time of Cicero, who were famous for having made the same mistake. Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching But he has vast stores of miscellaneous knowledge such as might delight the half-educated, and as a rhetorician he possesses a strange and debased brilliance, fired by an astonishing if disorderly imagination. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura One exquisite touch of nature, which is distinguished by italics, was beyond the rhetorician and historian, and belongs only to the poet. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical This is for secular collegiates, theologians, artists, seminarists, rhetoricians, and grammarians. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century A Greek rhetorician displays vast erudition in proving that Roman glory should be claimed by all the branches of the Hellenic race as a common patrimony. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. The city was very literary, but literary only in the literature of rhetoricians. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Be this as it may, when we next hear of him he is in Carthage, enjoying the highest renown as philosopher, poet, and rhetorician. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura But passionate as was Pitt's eloquence, it was the eloquence of a statesman, not of a rhetorician. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 He is a rhetorician, a dealer in set phraseology, an ingenious gatherer and polisher of "other men's stuff." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 In his maturing years, he was taught by the great lawyer, Isæus; and must often have listened to the orator and rhetorician Isocrates, if he was not indeed actually instructed by him. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 And when a man tasks his wits successfully, if it be only to mislead the witless, he has a sense of satisfaction in the effort akin to that of the rhetorician and the quack. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 There are a large number of different figures of speech, but such fine distinctions as the rhetoricians make are unnecessary for the ordinary student of literature. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Demagogues and agitators, rhetoricians and poets were all sure of a hearing, if only they were sufficiently inspired and sufficiently eloquent. "Unto Caesar" Ancient rhetoricians distinguished six parts, which may still be found in some elaborate specimens of pulpit or forensic eloquence. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Indeed, we lose the rhetorician altogether in the devoted pleader, the patriot, the self-forgetful chief of a noble but losing cause. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 He was not an historian of the first rank, but a phrase-making rhetorician, who is responsible for the current saying, History is philosophy teaching by examples. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 From Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas came the fiery spirits, led by Mr. William L. Yancey of Alabama, an able rhetorician. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War How could Cromwell, who was no great rhetorician, be otherwise than palpably confused, and dubious and intricate? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 In his "Defence of Poetry" the youthful exuberance of the romancer has passed into the earnest vigour and grandiose stateliness of the rhetorician. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 De Quincey was a sophist, a rhetorician, a brilliant talker. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Still, every now and then, the rhetorician peeps out in spite of himself, and he goes through the catalogue of the topics. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 I had rather be an amanuensis of the Infinite God, as it is my privilege literally to be, than a slave to the formulated rules of any rhetorician, or to the opinions of any critic. In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty Unlike most men noted as mere orators, he is a sound logician, as well as a polished rhetorician. Edmond Dantès If eloquence were all figure—even if it were, in any considerable degree, mere figure—then the tawdriest rhetorician would be the greatest orator. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States This makes an excellent period for a rhetorician, but the fact which it conveys made Limousin all the severer a task for an administrator. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot The author discusses the history of this famous pamphleteer and revolutionary rhetorician, as an advocate defends a client before a jury. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Many zealous ecclesiastics were found who revived the classic authors, and copies of the works of poets, historians, philosophers and rhetoricians were multiplied. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries 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. John Lyly True, our learned rhetorician says so, but he doesn't mean it. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. The gorgeous rhetorician of the Church was not likely to rise philosophically into the larger air of universal history, properly so called. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot He does not seem to me so much a hypocrite as a rhetorician; he reminds me of Serjeant Buzfuz. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens How much more they reflected on it than we do, the Rhetoric of Aristotle, the De Compositione of Dionysius and the endless writings of the rhetoricians show. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield What was overheard of it acted as a stimulus to pleasure, added point to the rhetorician's speeches, excitement to the circus games, and a halo to the beauty of red-haired courtesans. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Epithet is the technical term of the rhetorician; adjective, that of the grammarian. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. This rhetorician appeared to me to build his firmly-cemented edifice with great ability. Peter Schlemihl Where does Paul refer to the sophists and rhetoricians? The Life of St. Paul The deceased has been, for several years, attached to Holy Cross College, and is distinguished among the Jesuits as a rhetorician of high order. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 It is important, in the first place, to remember that his violences are not the violences of the hired rhetorician. Milton The rhetoricians would have us avoid such forms of expression as, "The boy went to and asked the advice of his teacher"; "I called on and had a conversation with my brother." The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. The satirist who told us that Indignation made his verses for him, might have been told in return that she excluded him thereby from the first class, and thrust him among the rhetoricians and declaimers. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Yet I fear lest the rhetorician Clodius, by his charms, and Pituanius, that excellent scholar, as he is said to be, and now, indeed, so wholly devoted to Greek letters, may detain you. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order That matters very little, except to a pedant and a rhetorician. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Is this the scene, or were these the men, for the triumphs of the barren rhetorician and the sophist, whose words have no true relation to the facts? The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 One may be a great orator, according to the usual acceptation of the term "great," and yet be only a declaimer and a rhetorician. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) M. Schlegel said, that he could fancy he was listening to that rhetorician who pronounced a discourse on the art of war to Hannibal. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 The rhetorician Dionysius of Magnesia had been with Cicero during his tour in Asia. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order I write merely as I feel, and do not pretend to be either an expert hieroglyphist or a rhetorician of commanding quality. The Autobiography of Methuselah Robespierre's words on the Supreme Being are never a brimming stream of deep feeling; they are a literary concoction: never the self-forgetting expansion of the religious soul, but only the composite of the rhetorician. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre It is bad technically, too; and usually, as in the case of the following specimen, shows that the author has a wider acquaintance with the poets than with the rhetoricians. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story Of the great rhetoricians whom De Quincey quotes in the Essay on Rhetoric just noticed, such men as Burke and Jeremy Taylor lead us to forget the means in the end. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Three hundred and eighty-nine works—the best, and of the most excellent authors:—poets, philosophers, historians, rhetoricians—all that is worth reading. The Lion's Brood He was not a rhetorician; he had neither grace of manner nor a fine presence, neither an imposing delivery, nor even pleasing tones. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series Original orator, advocate, poet, humorist, agitator, rhetorician, preacher, moralist and statesman. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Belisarius was accompanied in this, as in many subsequent expeditions, by his secretary and counsellor, the rhetorician Procopius, who has written the story of their wars in a style worthy of his hero-chief. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation He was a consummate rhetorician; but there seemed to me a dash of commonplace in all that he said, and frequent indications of the absence of an original mind. The Young Duke And magnificent rhetorician though he was, his labour was given less to his diction than to the facts; his heart was less in the form than the matter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Lamb's letter is filled with about every figure of speech known to rhetoricians: It will be a useful exercise to pick them out. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric The retort—more or less courteous—seemed much favored by these honest rhetoricians, and appreciated by the galleries, who at such times applauded sympathetically, in despite of menace or intercession of Vice-President or Speaker. Border and Bastille The letters of Brutus written in Greek are probably the composition of some rhetorician. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Seneca, the most eminent of them, was the son of M. Annæus Seneca, the rhetorician. A Smaller History of Rome Next to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, he was the most important critic and rhetorician of the Augustan age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" There have been many definitions of style; but the disputes of the rhetoricians do not concern us. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric The most popular passages were certain purple patches, not arising very spontaneously or with much relevance, but also showing something more than the practised rhetorician. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series "It produces neither poets, nor philosophers, nor rhetoricians; but it makes mortals immortal and men gods, and leads them away upwards from the earth into super-Olympian regions." History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) “For all a rhetorician’s rules,” says my great namesake, “teach nothing but, to name his tools;” and academic rules generally are much the same as the rhetorician’s. Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals G. B. S. in argument with an individualist showed himself, as a rule, much the better economist and much the worse rhetorician. George Bernard Shaw He enjoyed the society of Sophists and distinguished rhetoricians, and so far affected authorship as to win the unenviable title of Græculus in his own lifetime: yet he never neglected state affairs. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series It is remarkable that he, beyond all other rhetoricians of that era, cultivated the rhythmus of his periods. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg He pays no attention to the precepts of the rhetoricians, he forgets himself completely, thinking only of the end desired, the conversion of souls. Life of St. Francis of Assisi Now it belongs to rhetoricians to make use of conjectures. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province He had a wonderful poetic wit; and is one of the best rhetoricians of the modern world. George Bernard Shaw Petrarca called the appearance of the patriotic tribune and rhetorician the dawn of a new world and a golden age. Lectures on Modern history We study history by allowing all sides to be stated, and we admit to its chair both schools, the scientists and the rhetoricians. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties It was a Bohemian, Mathurin Regnier, who was one of the last defenders of the bulwarks of poetry, assailed by the phalanx of rhetoricians and grammarians who declared Rabelais barbarous and Montaigne obscure. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter Nevertheless, conjecture is taken here not only in the sense in which it is employed by rhetoricians, but also as applicable to all matters whatsoever wherein man is said to conjecture the truth. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province With Macaulay the superlatives pour out as his native vernacular without heat or wrath, as a mere rhetorician's trick, as the favourite tones of a great colourist. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Julian, however, had a literary education from his mother's old teacher, the eunuch Mardonius; and this was his happiness till he was old enough to attend the rhetoricians at Nicomedia and elsewhere. The Arian Controversy He has not the temperament of a genius, but that of a rhetorician and declaimer. Life of Father Hecker We find almost the same thing in the Gorgias of Plato, but this is the opinion of that rhetorician, and not of Plato. The Training of a Public Speaker His hardy will responded to the severe standards of thought and conduct set by the Platonic philosopher, while the wilder heart within him seemed to seek and understand the rhetorician's emotional nature and extravagant affections. Roads from Rome He would probably have selected some recent or even contemporary rhetorician. On the Sublime Education also was mostly heathen, turning on heathen classics and taught by heathen rhetoricians. The Arian Controversy Letters — Imitation of the Greeks — The Augustan Age — Orators and rhetoricians — Importance of the Latin literature and language — Arts — Sculpture and painting — Architecture — Characteristics of Roman architecture — Rome and its monuments. History Of Ancient Civilization The six books composing the first of these are written respectively against grammarians, rhetoricians, geometricians, arithmeticians, astronomers and musicians. Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism In the vestibule of the Palatine temple, waiting for the morning appearance of the Emperor, rhetoricians discussed the meaning of an adverb. Roads from Rome How strange is the comparison of the “great Emathian conqueror” with an Athenian rhetorician! On the Sublime In this state of things a fervid rhetorician, eager to redress the inequalities of mankind, starts forth to preach the dignity of all labour. Practical Essays “Why not?” answered Critobulus; “I have seen despicable rhetoricians beloved by the most famous orators, and persons who knew nothing of war live in familiarity with great generals.” The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates We see something in it akin to the trick of the rhetorician, who seeks to hide poverty of thought under glittering phrases. Great Italian and French Composers Emerson was not a logician or reasoner, and not a rhetorician, in the common sense. Four American Leaders He is mentioned with distinction as a learned Greek rhetorician and grammarian, and was the author of numerous works, frequently referred to by Plutarch and other later writers. On the Sublime It was a striking simile, and if well worked out by a rhetorician, say of Dr. Liddon's type, it might have powerfully clinched some great argument for the necessary place of dogma in Christian theology. Matthew Arnold All of the Iroquois nations were trained rhetoricians, and I would need a long ear to catch their verbal quibbles and see where their sophistry was hiding. Montlivet You will find in Plato much about reciters, actors, poets, rhetoricians, pleaders, sophists, public orators and refiners of language, but very little indeed about books. On The Art of Reading When Galt entered the hall, an athletic rhetorician was declaiming an eulogy which had for its theme the graces of his candidate. The Voice of the People He may be regarded as one of the most 95 distinguished Greek rhetoricians of his time. On the Sublime This is one of the sayings—of which sort many another might be found—that make the fortune of a rhetorician, yet stand ill the wear and tear of time and circumstance. The Art of Public Speaking One member, the celebrated rhetorician Quintilian, was the first who enjoyed the regular salary allotted by Vespasian to those who provided a solid education for the upper classes. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood He was a sentimentalist and a rhetorician, but one of the most brilliant of rhetoricians; while his sentiment, though not always deep or lasting, was for the nonce sufficiently sincere. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century He wrote a commentary on Homer; and the rhetorician Aristides wrote a panegyric on Alexander in a funeral oration. Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus It is almost a pity that we have to doubt the tradition, according to which our author was Longinus, and, being but a rhetorician, greatly dared and bravely died. On the Sublime It uses every principle of public speaking, and every "form of discourse," to use a rhetorician's expression, but argument supplemented by special appeal is its peculiar quality. The Art of Public Speaking There was a hurried convening of the council of Pothinus—a select company of eunuchs, amateur generals, intriguing rhetoricians. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. Here he has not yet assumed the mantle of the rhetorician, which in the Istoria d' Italia sits upon him somewhat cumbrously. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots Those robust rhetoricians who massacre level-headed government and substitute a system of make-shift experiments during a great national crisis do a wicked public disservice. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon If social maladies were treated scientifically, the trade of the emotional rhetorician would be gone. Outspoken Essays To establish a strict and regular discipline, and to succeed by giving proofs of their genius, is not the plan of our modern rhetoricians. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements He hoped to startle her, the old rhetorician; but he failed. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Seneca, indeed, was inferior to the other two in personal character, and was more of a rhetorician than a philosopher. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology This glowing vision was not the handiwork of a rhetorician writing with an eye to its effect upon his hearers. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist He was no trained orator, and he thoroughly disdained the arts of the rhetorician. Outspoken Essays Petronius has given a lively description of the rhetoricians of his time. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Prove to me that what you call human reason has in any manner purified or ennobled the moral sentiment, and I will bow myself before your logicians and rhetoricians. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Aristides, the rhetorician, was told that the "white maidens" would take care of him; and receiving a letter which was of advantage, he was fully convinced that this was the "white maiden." Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Dr. Charles Caldwell in his autobiography calls Ames "one of the most splendid rhetoricians of his age." The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Amphikrates the rhetorician also lost his life at the court of Tigranes, if he too deserves mention for the sake of Athens. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II The rhetoricians, he says, came originally from Asia; they were, however, neither known to Pindar, and the nine lyric poets, nor to Plato, or Demosthenes. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements The writer is no mere rhetorician or dealer in generalities. Ireland and the Home Rule Movement It may even seem, to those who have accustomed themselves to think of Burke wholly or mainly as a gorgeous rhetorician, rather tame as a whole. Political Pamphlets But the Prussian rhetorician had two incompatible sentiments in his mind, and he insisted on saying them both at once. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Improved and beautiful nature is the object of the painter's pencil, the poet's pen, and the rhetorician's action, and not that sordid and common nature, which is perfectly rude and uncultivated. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant The rhetoricians and pedagogues of the age preferred the novelty and meretricious ornaments of the style then in vogue. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements The old themes and verses aimed at producing decorous centos culled from the works of classical rhetoricians and poets. Cambridge Essays on Education Early in the first century the censors issued an edict forbidding certain Latin rhetoricians to teach. Roman life in the days of Cicero In tracing his life in these pages we have found no need for the brilliant colors of the rhetorician, the ingenuity of the partisan, or the enthusiasm of the hero-worshiper. The Personal Life of David Livingstone Some of the best literary criticism we have of the period, he presents through the medium of the parasite rhetorician Agamemnon. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature The ancient rhetoricians held this to be so essentially requisite, that Quintilian has given it a full discussion. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Cautious is she, and there is perhaps nothing in this pastoral that will cause the grammarian to wince, or make the censorious rhetorician writhe in his judgment-seat with the sense that she is committing herself. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 As soon as that world was dead, lo! clouds of rhetoricians, grammarians, sophists, swooped down like insects on its immense body. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations When nearly thirty years of age he went to Rome, only to be disappointed in his hopes for glory as a rhetorician; and after two years his mother joined him at Milan. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Count Malatesta, I am no rhetorician, or my words Might keep more even with the love I feel: Simply, I thank you. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini Messala describes the presumption of the young advocates on their first appearance at the bar; their want of legal knowledge, and the absurd habits which they contracted in the schools of the rhetoricians. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Two of the greatest speeches of Burke's time are supposed to have been Grattan's on Tithes and Fox's on the Westminster Scrutiny, and these were evidently full of the splendid commonplaces of the firstrate rhetorician. Burke Laugh at the subtle shades and distinctions of the rhetoricians and the specialist physicians. Light Now this rhetorician seemed to me to raise with great talent a firmly constructed fabric, which was at once self-based and self-supported, and stood as by an innate necessity. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English The Roman writers—historians, philosophers, rhetoricians, and poets—have extremely little to say about the humble persons who apparently did nothing to make history or thought. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul But I shall have occasion hereafter to speak more fully of that class of men, called rhetoricians. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Another and more distinguished writer insists that he is a resplendent and far-seeing rhetorician, rather than a deep and subtle thinker. Burke And this, when one addresses inanimate things, is a figure which is called by rhetoricians, Prosopopoeia, and the Poets often use it. The Banquet (Il Convito) Such facts must be considered, though they diminish the poetry which rhetoricians and sentimentalists have cast over the melancholy of Lincoln's temperament. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I He was above all things a rhetorician; he was an instinctive master of those qualities in words which go to produce effects of passionate vehemence, vigorous precision, and culminating force. Landmarks in French Literature He finds his friends engaged in a controversy, and being an admirer of ancient eloquence, he advises Aper to adopt the model of the ancients in preference to the plan of the modern rhetoricians. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements The French rhetoricians have a maxim, that there is nothing beautiful that is not true; I am afraid that some of our jubilant oratory would hardly stand the test of this canon of criticism. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style He revelled in it in the spirit of a rhetorician rather than of a martyr. Old and New Masters Yet he once said of himself, that he was "thoroughly logical and argumentative; not a rhetorician, as fools aver." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 Chateaubriand was, at bottom, a rhetorician pure and simple—a rhetorician in the widest sense of the word. Landmarks in French Literature But still I may be allowed to ask, have not you been too much exasperated against the rhetoricians? A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Perhaps a mere rhetorician might consider superfluous the word "whole," as applied to "globe," and "unbroken," as following "continuous"; yet they really add to the force and majesty of the expression. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style His praise of the mighty rhetoricians of the eighteenth century could in some passages scarcely be more unstinted if he were a Whig of the Whigs. Old and New Masters He was a Latin scholar, and as I have been told, a bachelor of laws, a good rhetorician, and something even of a poet. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 04 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time It is the rhetorician that we see, and not the man. Landmarks in French Literature And I, replied Aper, shall make reprisals on you both before the school professors and the rhetoricians. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Indeed, a rhetorician and critic less skilful than Macaulay can easily detect that "America" is represented fully in Webster's despatches, while "Britannia" has a very amiable, but not very forcible, representative in Lord Ashburton. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style Many of the Maori chiefs were, and some even now are, masterly rhetoricians. The Long White Cloud This habit of straying, and his lack of style, prove Aelianus more of a vagabond in the domain of letters than a rhetorician. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Arnobius, an African rhetorician who, in the beginning of the 4th century, embraced Christianity, and wrote a book in its defence, still extant, and of great value, entitled "Disputations against the Heathen." The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge By these pretenders to taste, the works of our modern rhetoricians are thrown by with neglect, and even fastidious disdain; while those of Calvus are held in the highest esteem. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements They compel common words to bear a burden of thought and emotion, which mere rhetoricians, with all the resources of the language at their disposal, would never dream of imposing upon them. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style "Sir!" replied the rhetorician, with a patronizing smile, "h-you must be thinking of France!" The Grandissimes He was a distinguished orator, grammarian, and rhetorician. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 Seneca, Annæus, rhetorician, born at Cordova; taught rhetoric at Rome, whither he went at the time of Augustus, and where he died A.D. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge "It does beat hell amazingly!" answered that accomplished rhetorician. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio There was not a weapon in the armory of the dialectician or the rhetorician which was not employed with the intent of demolishing it. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style These last have been dangers in all periods of stylistic experiment; the former, figures duly noted as ornaments by contemporary rhetoricians, Sidney no doubt borrowed from Spain. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England As used by rhetoricians, arguments from sign include also arguments from attendant circumstances. Composition-Rhetoric No man is a rhetorician or philosopher by chance. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler They were all ready to exclaim again: but I went on, proleptically, as a rhetorician would say, before their voices would break out into words. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 In trying to explain this power, the most obvious comparison which would arise in the mind of an intelligent reader would be, that Webster, as a rhetorician, resembled Vauban and Cohorn as military engineers. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style Genet was no casual rhetorician raised to important office by caprice of events, but a trained diplomatist of hereditary aptitude and of long experience. Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism Attracted by the munificence of the Ptolemies and by the opportunities offered by its great library, many of the most famous Greek philosophers and rhetoricians of the age found their home in the Egyptian capital. The Makers and Teachers of Judaism To a clay compounded chiefly of the worldling and the rhetorician, there is added a real spark of Promethean fire. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Quite lately I heard an Irish rhetorician exclaim, "If the Liberal Party is to maintain its position, it must move forward." Collections and Recollections But this great rhetorician either forgot his own doctrine, or did not mean what he here says. The Grammar of English Grammars If Dr. Walker were not a thinker, it is plain that he could never have been a rhetorician. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 He was, said Carlyle, "vehement rather than earnest; a resplendent far-sighted rhetorician, rather than a deep and earnest thinker." English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge But it needed a decadent young American to sing: "Thou Prince of Peace, Thou God of War," to the dismal rhetorician of Potsdam. What is Coming? Dr. Price was a rhetorician whom any cause would have gladly enlisted as its champion. Collections and Recollections He was while in Parliament, though not quite an orator, and still less a debater, the most brilliant rhetorician of the House. Famous Reviews He would have done this if he had not mistrusted his own power of treating such a subject with the dignity and style of a practised rhetorician. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti And what wages have you paid this rhetorician? The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 He bestowed the purple on the rhetorician Eugenius; whom he had already raised from the place of his domestic secretary to the rank of master of the offices. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 The assemblies of the senate, which Constantius had avoided, were considered by Julian as the place where he could exhibit, with the most propriety, the maxims of a republican, and the talents of a rhetorician. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 There is one in which he blames Gorgias, the rhetorician, for enticing his son into luxury and drinking, and, therefore, forbids him his company. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans A young rhetorician applied to an old sophist to be taught the art of pleading, and bargained for a certain reward to be paid when he should gain a cause. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section D and E I wish to hear, that I may see the fruit of those high wages of that rhetorician, of that land given in Leontini. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 These are, first, such as have brittle wits, the edge whereof is soon turned; such as was Hermogenes the rhetorician, whose books are exceeding subtle; who afterwards waxed stupid. The Essays of Francis Bacon Some considerations might perhaps incline a sceptical mind to suspect the judgment or the veracity of the rhetorician, whose pen, either from zeal or interest, was devoted to the cause of the prevailing faction. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 But Tiberius, being elected tribune of the people, entered upon that design without delay, at the instigation, as is most commonly stated, of Diophanes, the rhetorician, and Blossius, the philosopher. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans A hundred years ago our affairs for good or evil were wielded triumphantly by rhetoricians. Heretics At present we ought to be contented with these precepts of the rhetoricians given for the use of orators. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 To lose time in the manufacture of cut-and-dried constitutions is, in consequence, a puerile task, the useless labour of an ignorant rhetorician. The Crowd; study of the popular mind Whoever cannot speak this language is mercilessly relegated to the ranks of the rhetoricians; he is said to have no ideas. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery Posidonius has published the disputation which he held before him against Hermagoras the rhetorician, upon the subject of Invention in general. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town. Moon and Sixpence For there lived at the same time as Aristotle, a great and illustrious rhetorician, named Isocrates, though we have not entirely discovered what his system was. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 These leaders are often subtle rhetoricians, seeking only their own personal interest, and endeavouring to persuade by flattering base instincts. The Crowd; study of the popular mind To judge by the titles and specimens which have come down to us, these possessed no special originality or merit, but resembled the epideixeis of the Greek rhetoricians. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 This is the account Secundus the rhetorician, who was his secretary, gave of the matter. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Apart from the rhetoricians, the most fruitful literary source of our information on gesture is Donatus' commentary on Terence. The Dramatic Values in Plautus And when men's minds are moved it will not be right to dwell longer on complaints; for, as Apollonius the rhetorician said, "Nothing dries quicker than a tear." The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 So also in the Life of that great rhetorician and beautiful personality, Canon Liddon, you will scarcely find a single letter that touches on any question of social betterment. A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 No rhetorician, he always took the true side of a question that concerned his party, and left declamation to Maury. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 To some extent, very certainly, his reputation as a rhetorician is due to the histrionic spouting of lines that do not need to be spouted. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller In the rhetoricians frequent warning is issued to the forensic neophyte to avoid the unrestraint of theatrical gesticulation. The Dramatic Values in Plautus For Gorgias the Leontine, who is almost the oldest of all rhetoricians, considered that an orator was able to speak in the most excellent manner of all men on every subject. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Prompted by a natural love of speculation, he began to examine the old grammarians and rhetoricians, with a view to systematize them. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic He was the son of M. Annaeus Mela, brother of Seneca the philosopher and dramatist, and son of Seneca the rhetorician. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal In his poems as elsewhere he is a good deal of a rhetorician, but he is never insincere. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Hence we look to Athens for art, to Palestine for ethics; the one produces rhetoricians,—the other, prophets. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 The rhetoricians call this "hypallage," because one word as it were is substituted for another. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 They had a large number of cut-and-dried orations, which professional rhetoricians delivered on all important occasions in life. Aboriginal American Authors He is a rhetorician, it is true, but he chose a form of literature where his rhetoric could have legitimate play. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal At bottom he was a rhetorician writing for this public—the slave of praise, and eager for fame, which made his complete indifference as to what people thought of his actions all the more remarkable. Eleanor A Carthage rhetorician, like Augustin, could feel at the sight of it nothing but the same irritated admiration and secret jealousy as the Emperor Constans felt when he visited his capital for the first time. Saint Augustin But Plato writes it of him when he has become an old man, and when he is his contemporary, and a sort of attacker of all the rhetoricians. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 That of Ambrose and Jerome is worthy of mere rhetoricians; a flat formal play of 'antithesis' instead of the weight and solemnity of the other. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Greek rhetoricians of this period lay great stress on the importance of avoiding declamatory rhetoric. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Aristides was a rhetorician who has left behind him certain orations, entitled Sacred Discourses, written in praise of the god Aesculapius. The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious A Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot A dream had foretold his return to his former pupil, Elogius, the rhetorician. Saint Augustin From this are derived those results of the rhetoricians drawn from contraries, which they call enthymemes. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Throughout this page, Donne rather too much plays the rhetorician. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge The theme of cannibalism was sometimes dealt with by the rhetoricians. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The evidence is not very clear or well authenticated; and we have reason to fear that very little reliance can be placed on the declarations of this afflicted rhetorician. The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious A Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot The harsh Hebraic words become soft to our ears by their passage through the cultivated mouth of the rhetorician. Saint Augustin There is a third kind adopted by those brothers, the chiefs of the Asiatic rhetoricians, Hierocles and Maecles, men who are not at all to be despised, in my opinion at least. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 The lectures of grammarians and rhetoricians, of philosophers and physicians, were largely attended. Outline of Universal History As for the rhetorician Agamemnon, so for Eumolpus, the great poets of the past are Homer and the lyric poets; and nearer home are the 'Roman Vergil' and Horace. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Martial, by whom he is repeatedly mentioned, alludes to him only as a rhetorician, not as a satirist. Latin Literature He experienced beforehand, as a rhetorician, the intoxication of a triumph which playfellows who were stronger and better provided with muscles gave him a hard fight for. Saint Augustin There are many other moods used by the rhetoricians, which consist of disjunctive propositions:—"Either this or that is the case; but this is the case; then that is not the case." The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 A jurist's question, is here handled by a rhetorician. Milton Not being acquainted with the works of the elder Seneca the rhetorician, Sidonius invented a new author, Seneca the tragedian. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Though Pollio was a practised rhetorician, his narrative style was simple and austere. Latin Literature But it is certain that it formed, without his knowledge, his thought and his power of sensation, and extended for him the lessons of the Latin rhetoricians and grammarians. Saint Augustin But the obscurity of the subject deterred you from the books; and that illustrious rhetorician to whom you had applied answered you, I suppose, that he knew nothing of these rules of Aristotle. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 With this the philosopher put off his clothes and fled forth: whereupon she turned to those present and said, 'Which of you is the rhetorician that can discourse of all kinds of knowledge?' The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV His father, who bore the same name, was the famous rhetorician to whom we have already referred. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Of the men who set this revolution in motion by their writings, the earliest and the most distinguished was Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the son of the rhetorician. Latin Literature Now there were very good rhetoricians only at Carthage. Saint Augustin And this I was not so much surprised at, namely, that that philosopher was not known to the rhetorician, inasmuch as he is not much known even to philosophers, except to a very few. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 The rhetoricians, who in Rome were what the sophists were in Athens, only far less intelligent, directed the public mind. Initiation into Literature The love of the Silver Age for rhetoric has converted Medea into a skilful rhetorician, its love for the black art has degraded her to a vulgar sorceress. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Fronto was the most celebrated rhetorician of his time, and exercised a commanding influence on literary criticism. Latin Literature Before all things, it was important that he should become an illustrious rhetorician, and raise the fortunes of the family. Saint Augustin They seem to be mere clever special pleaders, religious rhetoricians like the Greek sophists, rather than guides in the narrow road which leads to salvation. Amiel's Journal But the subject was too tempting for the rhetorician. Literary Remains, Volume 2 Conscious of this inevitable difficulty, and with all the rhetorician's morbid fear of being commonplace, Lucan betakes himself to desperate remedies, hyperbole and padding. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The elderly rhetorician, a martyr, as he keeps complaining, to gout, and the philosophic Emperor write to each other with the effusiveness of two school-girls. Latin Literature This direct popular style, which only cares about saying things, and not about how they are said, could only repel the pupil of Carthage rhetoricians, the imitator of the harmonious Ciceronian sentences. Saint Augustin This man was a great scholar in almost every science, though a layman; was a most excellent poet, philosopher, and rhetorician; perfect, as well in composing and versifying as in haranguing; a most noble speaker…. Among My Books Second Series He could not have been the mere sentimentalist and rhetorician for which the rough-and-ready understanding would at first glance be inclined to condemn him. Among My Books First Series This ornamented prose, elaborated by Greek and Roman rhetoricians, and constantly apparent in the pages of Cicero, heightened its rhythm by various devices of alliteration, assonance, tone-color, cadence, phrase and period. A Study of Poetry 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. Latin Literature He did come back, but with the quibbles of the Sophist, the rhetorician cavilled against his mother. Saint Augustin |
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