A Life of Aristotle: Including a Critical Discussion of Some Questions of Literary History Connected with His WorksJ. and J.J. Deighton, 1839 - 181 pages |
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... Rhetoric , not that which has come down to us , but one which , as we shall have occasion to show in the sequel , was probably written during this period of his life , is described by Cicero2 as contain- ing an account of the theories ...
... Rhetoric , not that which has come down to us , but one which , as we shall have occasion to show in the sequel , was probably written during this period of his life , is described by Cicero2 as contain- ing an account of the theories ...
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... RHETORIC - PROVERBS - CONSTITUTIONAL LAW . 21 circumstance , then , is calculated to throw additional discredit on the story told by Epicurus of Aristotle's youth . A bankrupt apothecary could never have been a book collector . Another ...
... RHETORIC - PROVERBS - CONSTITUTIONAL LAW . 21 circumstance , then , is calculated to throw additional discredit on the story told by Epicurus of Aristotle's youth . A bankrupt apothecary could never have been a book collector . Another ...
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... , Vit . Isocr . Compare Cicero , De Invent . ii . 2. Brut . 12 . 4 αἰσχρὸν σιωπᾷν , βαρβάρους δ ̓ ἐάν λέγειν . Aristotle substituted the word Ισοκράτη for βαρβάρους . HIMSELF TEACHES RHETORIC . 33 of Alexander . The expressions.
... , Vit . Isocr . Compare Cicero , De Invent . ii . 2. Brut . 12 . 4 αἰσχρὸν σιωπᾷν , βαρβάρους δ ̓ ἐάν λέγειν . Aristotle substituted the word Ισοκράτη for βαρβάρους . HIMSELF TEACHES RHETORIC . 33 of Alexander . The expressions.
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... RHETORIC . 33 of Alexander . The expressions too , which he uses in describing Aristotle's treatment of his subject apply rather to lectures combined with rhetorical practice and historical illustration than a formal treatise . And this ...
... RHETORIC . 33 of Alexander . The expressions too , which he uses in describing Aristotle's treatment of his subject apply rather to lectures combined with rhetorical practice and historical illustration than a formal treatise . And this ...
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... rhetorical lectures . But a letter preserved by Aulus Gellius " , which is well known , but can scarcely be genuine , would induce us to believe that , from the very birth of Alexander , he was destined by his father to grow up under ...
... rhetorical lectures . But a letter preserved by Aulus Gellius " , which is well known , but can scarcely be genuine , would induce us to believe that , from the very birth of Alexander , he was destined by his father to grow up under ...
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Page 74 - This is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : he cannot flatter, he, — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he 's plain.