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To resume, then, rhetoric (for I shall now use the
name without fear of captious criticism) is in my
opinion best treated under the three following heads,
the art, the artist and the work. The art is that
which we should acquire by study, and is the art of
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speaking well. The artist is he who has acquired the
art, that is to say, he is the orator whose task it is
to speak well. The work is the achievement of
the artist, namely good speaking. Each of these
three general divisions is in its turn divided into
species. Of the two latter divisions I shall speak
in their proper place. For the present I shall proceed to a discussion of the first.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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