 | Karl Otfried Mu ller, Carl Otfried Müller - 1840 - 140 strani
...is to turn the minds of his hearers into such a train as may best consist with his own interests ; that, consequently, rhetoric is the agent of persuasion,...able to speak well and convincingly on every subject, even though he has no accurate knowledge respecting it. In accordance with this view of rhetoric, Gorgias... | |
 | Karl Otfried Müller - 1840 - 546 strani
...may best consist with his own interests ; that, consequently, rhetoric is the agent of persuasion, J the art of all arts, because the rhetorician is able to speak well and convincingly on every subject, even though he has no accurate knowledge respecting it. In accordance with this view of rhetoric, Gorgias... | |
 | Karl Otfried Müller - 1847 - 584 strani
...may best consist with his own interests ; that, consequently, rhetoric is the agent of persuasion, J the art of all arts, because the rhetorician is able to speak well and convincingly on every subject, even though he has no accurate knowledge respecting it. In accordance with this view of rhetoric, Gorgias... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1853 - 610 strani
...is to turn the minds of his hearers into such a train as may best consist with his own interests ; that, consequently, rhetoric is the agent of persuasion,...able to speak well and convincingly on every subject, even though he has no accurate knowledge respecting it.1 In accordance with this view of rhetoric,... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1853 - 600 strani
...is to turn the minds of his hearers into such a train as may best consist with his own interests ; that, consequently, rhetoric is the agent of persuasion,...able to speak well and convincingly on every subject, even though he has no accurate knowledge respecting it.1 In accordance with this view of rhetoric,... | |
 | Karl Otfried Müller, John William Donaldson - 1858 - 550 strani
...may best consist with his own interests ; that, consequently, rhetoric is the agent of persuasion,6 the art of all arts, because the rhetorician is able to speak well and convincingly on every subject, even though he has no accurate knowledge respecting it. In accordance with this view of rhetoric, Gorgias... | |
 | Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - 1860 - 592 strani
...own interest ; that, consequently, rhetoric is the agent of persuasion, the art of all arts, becanse the rhetorician is able to speak well and convincingly...the downfall of Athens, was succeeded by a period of exhanstion and repose. The fine arts were checked in their progress, and poetry degenerated into empty... | |
 | Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - 1902 - 596 strani
...as neither art nor science had ever before earned among the Greeks. If we consider their doc'rines philosophically, they amounted to a denial or renunciation...degenerated into empty bombast. Yet at' this very time prose literature began a new career, which led to its fairest development. Lysias and Isocrates... | |
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They made language the object of their study; they aimed at correctness and beauty of style, and they laid the foundation for the polished diction of Plato and Demosthenes. They taught that the sole aim of the orator is to turn the minds of his hearers... 