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What is Rhetorique.

RHetorique is an Arte to set foorth by vtteraunce of words, matter at large, or (as Cicero doth say) it is a learned, or rather an artificiall declaration of the mynd, in the handling of any cause, called in contention, that may through reason largely be discussed.

Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique. Thomas Wilson. G. H. Mair. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1909.

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