William Fulwood, The Enemy of Idleness (1568)
Date
1568
Translator
Book title
The Enimie of Idlenesse: Teaching the maner and stile how to endite, compose and write all sorts of Epistles and Letters: as well by answer, as otherwise
Publication place
London
Printer
Henry Bynneman
Publisher
Leonard Maylard
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
rhetoric
Summary
Occasional logical definitions. Translates the anonymous Le stile et maniere de composer, dicter, et escrire toutes sortes d'epistres.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: And to describe the true definition of an Epistle or letter, it is nothing else but an Oration written, conteining the mynde of the Orator or wryter, thereby to guye to vnderstand to him or them that be absent, the same that should be declared if they were present, whereof there be three principall sortes, for some are addressed to our superiours, as to Emperors, kings, princes &c. Some to our equalles as to Marchants, Burgesses, Citizens &c. Some to our inferiors, as to seruants, laborers, &c. (a7r-a7v)
sample: And to describe the true definition of an Epistle or letter, it is nothing else but an Oration written, conteining the mynde of the Orator or wryter, thereby to guye to vnderstand to him or them that be absent, the same that should be declared if they were present, whereof there be three principall sortes, for some are addressed to our superiours, as to Emperors, kings, princes &c. Some to our equalles as to Marchants, Burgesses, Citizens &c. Some to our inferiors, as to seruants, laborers, &c. (a7r-a7v)
STC
11476
Other editions
ten editions to 1582
