Aristotle, A Brief of the Art of Rhetoric (ca 1637)
Date
1637ca
Author
Translator
Thomas
Hobbes
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
A Briefe Of The Art Of Rhetoriqve. Containing in substance all that Aristotle hath written in his Three Bookes of that subject, Except onely what is not applicable to the English Tongue
Publication place
London
Printer
Thomas Cotes
Publisher
Andrew Crook
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP transcript
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- logic
- rhetoric
Summary
"CHAP. 2. The Definition of Rhetorique"; and other logical definitions
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: RHetorique, is that Faculty, by which wee understand what will serve our turne, concerning any subject, to winne beliefe in the hearer.
Of those things that beget beleefe; some require not the helpe of Art; as Witnesses, Evidences, and the like, which wee invent not, but make use of; and some require Art, and are invented by us. (pp. 4-5; damaged words supplied from Wing L433 [1651])
sample: RHetorique, is that Faculty, by which wee understand what will serve our turne, concerning any subject, to winne beliefe in the hearer.
Of those things that beget beleefe; some require not the helpe of Art; as Witnesses, Evidences, and the like, which wee invent not, but make use of; and some require Art, and are invented by us. (pp. 4-5; damaged words supplied from Wing L433 [1651])
Alston
VI.61
STC
767
Other editions
1651: Wing L433 (A Compendium of the Art of Logick and Rhetorick)
Modern editions
Hobbes, Thomas. The English Works. Ed. William Molesworth. 9 vols. . London: Bohn, 1939-45.
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