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There is
moreover great variety in definitions. For instance,
persons will give different verbal expression to
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things about which they are really in agreement:
thus rhetoric is defined as the science of speaking
well, as the science of correct conception or correct
expression of what we have to say, as the science of
speading in accordance with the excellence of an orator
and again of speaking to the purpose. And we must
take care to discover how it is that definitions,
identical in meaning, differ in the form in which
they are expressed. However, this is a subject for
discussion and not for a quarrel.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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