My historical work has been in the field of the history of rhetoric, where I have long noticed that the divisions of rhetoric -- inventio, disposito, etc., are simultaneous and acoustic whereas the parts of oratory -- exhortium, confimatio, etc., are sequential.
Letter to Prof. Samuel Becker, August 30, 1976
Year: 1976
Chapter:
Rhetoric
Compiled by William Kuhns
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