The arte of rhetorique : for the use of all suche as are studious of eloquence, sette forth in English
| dc.contributor | Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press |
| dc.contributor.author | Wilson, Thomas, 1525?-1581 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:17:52Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:17:52Z |
| dc.date.created | 1536 |
| dc.date.issued | 1996-02-23 |
| dc.identifier | ota:2095 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2095 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/2095 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.relation.isreplacedby | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3153 |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | Textbooks -- England -- 16th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Chrestomathies -- England -- 16th century |
| dc.title | The arte of rhetorique : for the use of all suche as are studious of eloquence, sette forth in English |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1500-1599 |
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<dTitle type=main>The Arte of Rhetorique,</dTitle>
<dTitle type=sub>for the use of all suche as are studious of Eloquence, sette forth in English</dTitle>
<byLine>by
<dAuthor>Thomas Wilson</dAuthor> </byLine>
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<head>To the right honorable Lorde, John Dudley, Lorde Lisle, Earle of Warwike, and maister of the horse to the kynges majestie: your assured to commaund Thomas Wilson.</head>
<p>When Pyrrhus Kynge of the Epirotes made battayle agaynste the
Romaynes, and could neither by force of Armes, nor yet by anye
Policye wynne certayne stronge holdes: he used communely to send
one Cineas (a noble Oratour, and sometimes scholer to Demosthenes)
to perswade with the Capitaynes and people that were in them, that
they shoulde yelde up the sayde holde or townes without fyght or
resistaunce. And so it came to passe, that through the pithye
eloquence of this noble Oratoure, divers stronge Castels and
Fortresses were . . .
