[8]
I have no serious quarrel with these critics, for they
acknowledge that rhetoric is concerned with every
kind of material, though they deny that it has any
peculiar material just because of that material's multiplicity. But in spite of this multiplicity, rhetoric
is not unlimited in scope, and there are other minor
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arts whose material is characterised by the same
multiplicity: such for instance is architecture, which
deals with everything that is useful for the purpose
of building: such too is the engraver's art which
works on gold, silver, bronze, iron.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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