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... Quinctilian . It will however be proper previously to notice a collection of declamations , under the title of controversies and deliberations , different from those , which bear the name of Quinctilian , and ยท published as the ...
... Quinctilian . It will however be proper previously to notice a collection of declamations , under the title of controversies and deliberations , different from those , which bear the name of Quinctilian , and ยท published as the ...
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... Quinctilian , are not much better , and are well known not to have been composed or even compiled by him . There ... Quinctilian , and is usually published among the works of both those writers . It contains an ingenious parallel between ...
... Quinctilian , are not much better , and are well known not to have been composed or even compiled by him . There ... Quinctilian , and is usually published among the works of both those writers . It contains an ingenious parallel between ...
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... Quinctilian or a Tacitus could not but lament , but which it was not even in their genius and talents to heal . It is much to be regretted , that a considerable part of this valua- ble treatise is lost . To rescue the art from this ...
... Quinctilian or a Tacitus could not but lament , but which it was not even in their genius and talents to heal . It is much to be regretted , that a considerable part of this valua- ble treatise is lost . To rescue the art from this ...
Contents
General view of rhetoric and oratory | 33 |
Objections against eloquence considered | 53 |
Origin of oratory | 73 |
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