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" Execrabilis ista turba, quae non novit legem^] for the winning and persuading of them, there grew of necessity in chief price and request eloquence and variety of discourse, as the fittest and forciblest access into the capacity of the vulgar sort. "
The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 27
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819
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History of Speech Education in America: Background Studies

Karl Richards Wallace - Amateur theater - 1954 - 712 pages
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Britannica et Americana, Volumes 5-7

American literature - 1960 - 416 pages
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

Marshall McLuhan - Social Science - 1962 - 306 pages
...public. The growing public could only be won by flowery rhetoric and, Bacon goes on to say (p. 24): for the winning and persuading of them, there grew...languages, and the efficacy of preaching, did bring in an affectionate study of eloquence and copie of speech, which then began to flourish. This grew speedily...
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The Advancement of Learning, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1964 - 168 pages
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The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - Logic - 1965 - 268 pages
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Makers of Literary Criticism, Volume 1

Balachandra Rajan, Arapura Ghevarghese George - Criticism - 1965 - 428 pages
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The Problem of Style

James Vincent Cunningham - Literary style - 1966 - 292 pages
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Origins of the Scientific Revolution

Hugh F. Kearney - Science - 1964 - 184 pages
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The Rise of Modern Prose Style

Robert Adolph - English language - 1968 - 392 pages
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The Rise of Modern Prose Style

Robert Adolph - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 392 pages
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