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... composing the first of these are written respectively against grammarians, rhetoricians, geometricians, arithmeticians, astronomers and musicians. ...

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... effects. Some say, that in other Cities of Greece they went to seeke for Rhetoricians, for Painters, and for Musicians; whereas in Lacedemon, they ... ...inance of his, by which he forbade schooles and interdicted all Christian rhetoricians and grammarians to teach, saying he wished this his action mig...

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... this is the meaning, or, if not this, then they must have been skil ful as rhetoricians and dialecticians, and able to put the question ( erotan), f... ...d therefore, as I was saying, in the Attic dialect the heroes turn out to be rhetoricians and questioners. All this is easy enough; the noble breed of...

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...tom of common use, both in these and in later times. The Aesop’s Fables 104 rhetoricians and philosophers were accustomed to give the Fables of Aesop... ... Fables 105 in the various translations and disquisitional exercises of the rhetoricians and philosophers. His collection is inter esting and import...

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...ay, that with Cæsar came the destruction of Roman greatness. Peace, hollow rhetoricians! Until Cæsar came, Rome was a minor; by him, she attained her ... ...o the state best fitted for the destined “Mother of empires.” Peace, then, rhetoricians, false threnodists of false liberty! hollow chant- ers over th...

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...ot much as regards the grounds and ultimate principles even in the ancient rhetoricians, I have been reduced to collect my opin- ions from the great a... ...ately to enlightened dis- ciples. Hence it is, that, like the professional rhetoricians of Athens, not seldom the Christian fathers, when urgently pre...

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...ntly exercising himself in declamations, and attending the most celebrated rhetoricians of the time. He sailed from Athens for Asia and Rhodes. Amongs... ...the panegyrical orators, and in accuracy and science all the logicians and rhetoricians of his day; that Cicero was highly educated, and by his dilige... ...were en- gaged in a boyish trial of skill, who should speak best, with the rhetoricians, Isocrates and Anaximenes, not as one who could claim the task...

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...ble organization. What they could do, was simply as ministerial agents and rhetoricians to prosecute any general movement, when the national arm had c...

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...ad made a name for himself as the most formidable dealer in exact fact the rhetoricians of the Union had ever had to encounter. From Oxford he had gon...

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...They used to go, it is said, to the other cities of Greece, to inquire out rhetoricians, painters, and musicians; but to Lacedaemon for legislators, m...

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...n cases pleasures as great as those of the good, or even greater. Not merely rhetoricians, but poets, musicians, and other artists, the whole tribe of... ...s favourite art reduced to the level of cookery, he replies that at any rate rhetoricians, like despots, have great power. Socrates denies that they h... ...tagoras and Meno. As in other dialogues, he is the enemy of the Sophists and rhetoricians; and also of the statesmen, whom he regards as another varie... ...gs Polus not unnecessarily to retaliate on him. Do you mean to say that the rhetoricians are esteemed flatterers? They are not esteemed at all. Why... ...er regarded with reference to this world or to another. Statesmen, Sophists, rhetoricians, poets, are alike brought up for judgment. They are the paro... ...ituation in another life, are also points of similarity. The poets, like the rhetoricians, are condemned because they aim at plea- sure only, as in th... ...hen pray do. SOCRATES: And are we to say that you are able to make other men rhetoricians? GORGIAS: Yes, that is exactly what I profess to make them, ... ...CRATES: Very good then; as you profess to be a rheto- rician, and a maker of rhetoricians, let me ask you, with what is rhetoric concerned: I might as... ...tle arranged, or a position taken, then the military will advise and not the rhetoricians: what do you say, Gorgias? Since you profess to be a rhetori...

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...at there is small danger of this; the politicians are them selves the great rhetoricians of the age, who desire to attain immortality by the authorsh... ...l rules, but is the gift of genius. The real art is always being confused by rhetoricians with the preliminaries of the art. The perfection of oratory... ...arallel elsewhere. In the second speech Socrates is exhibited as beating the rhetoricians at their own weapons; he ‘an unpractised man and they master... ...er purpose than to exhibit Socrates as the rival or superior of the Athenian rhetoricians. Even in the speech of Lysias there is a germ of truth, and ... ...logical analysis, which is given by dia lectic, but not by the rules of the rhetoricians. In this latter portion of the Dialogue there are many texts... ...436, about seven years before the birth of Plato. The first of the two great rhetoricians is described as in the zenith of his fame; the sec ond is s... ...s; so in the Phaedrus, chiefly in the latter part, he aims his shafts at the rhetoricians. The profession of rhetoric was the greatest and most popula... ...a philosopher, but also as a great writer. He cannot abide the tricks of the rhetoricians, or the pedantries and mannerisms which they introduce into ... ...eparated them ( Phaedrus). It is the in terval which separates Sophists and rhetoricians from ancient famous men and women such as Homer and Hesiod, ...

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... to ridicule the practice, and at the same time to show that he can beat the rhetoricians in their own line, as in the Phaedrus he may be supposed to ... ...s the best pleader of his day, the sat- ire on him and on the whole tribe of rhetoricians is transparent. The ironical assumption of Socrates, that he...

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... or even simply to compare, most students know what is ex pected of them. Rhetoricians, people who study the way we present our ideas and the words w...

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...eak the language of civic life; the poets of our time, the language of the rhetoricians. Character is that which reveals moral purpose, showing what k...

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...nd pedantic. Plato is attacking the logi cal feebleness of the sophists and rhetoricians, through their pupils, not forgetting by the way to satirize... ... himself a despiser of rhetoric, is proved also to be the most consummate of rhetoricians (compare Menexenus). The last of the six discourses begins w...

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...hat which is not and is no- where? I think not, said Ctesippus. Well, but do rhetoricians, when they speak in the as- sembly, do nothing? 31 Euthydem...

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... Sophist and Statesman we know that his hostility towards the sophists and rhetoricians was not mitigated in later life; although both in the Statesma...

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...od and wise men, and devoid of true education. This creature has many heads: rhetoricians, lawyers, states men, poets, sophists. But the Sophist is t...

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...ry sharply reproves an edict of his whereby he inter- dicted all Christian rhetoricians and grammarians to keep school or to teach, and says he could ...

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...t of people used to send their children to the schools of philosophers and rhetoricians, in order to be instructed in these fashionable sciences. But ...