Quintilian is a Latin classic, and belongs to the class of rhetoricians.

The gift of tongues was reserved for rhetoricians, politicians, lawyers, and Sophists.

The great Catholic preachers of the eighteenth centurylike Bossuet and Bourdaloue and Massillonsurpassed the Protestants as rhetoricians.

Admirers and rhetoricians say, "as long as the language in which her books are written."

As a parliamentary orator he was simply a speech-maker, like the Unitarian minister Fox, or that still abler man the Quaker Bright, both of whom were great rhetoricians.

and when you were become a youth and attended the rhetoricians, and yourself practised rhetoric, what did you imagine that you were deficient in?

But all will not serve; rhetoricians, in ostentationem loquacitatis multa agitant, out of their volubility of tongue, will talk much to no purpose, orators can persuade other men what they will, quo volunt, unde volunt, move, pacify, &c., but cannot settle their own brains, what saith Tully?

In the Low-Countries (as Meteran relates) before these wars, they had many solemn feasts, plays, challenges, artillery gardens, colleges of rhymers, rhetoricians, poets: and to this day, such places are curiously maintained in Amsterdam, as appears by that description of Isaacus Pontanus, rerum Amstelrod.

But notwithstanding an Excess of Modesty obstructs the Tongue, and renders it unfit for its Offices, a due Proportion of it is thought so requisite to an Orator, that Rhetoricians have recommended it to their Disciples as a Particular in their Art.

For Gorgias the Leontine, who is almost the oldest of all rhetoricians, considered that an orator was able to speak in the most excellent manner of all men on every subject.

He found it fully formed and developed, but not yet uniformed and cramped and disciplined by the lexicographers and rhetoricians,those martinets of language, who seem to have lost for us in force and flexibility as much as they have gained for us in precision.

Rhetoricians are seldom free from occasional extravagance, and Burke fell under the common danger of his kind.

In order that this revelation of the Renaissance in painting should be complete, it is necessary to add a fifth power to these fourthat of the Venetian masters, who are the poets of carnal beauty, the rhetoricians of mundane pomp, the impassioned interpreters of all things great and splendid in the pageant of the outer world.

"Rhetoricians commonly divide them into two great classes; figures of words, and figures of thought.

"To justify my not following the tract of the ancient rhetoricians.

"The ancient rhetoricians have entered into a very minute and particular detail of this subject; more particular, indeed, than any other that regards language.

"Rhetoricians commonly divide them into two great classes; Figures of Words, and Figures of Thought.

Attracted by the munificence of the Ptolemies and by the opportunities offered by its great library, many of the most famous Greek philosophers and rhetoricians of the age found their home in the Egyptian capital.

Mrs. Randall Jarrell (Mary Jarrell) (W); 23Feb68; R430132. The rhetoricians.

Mrs. Randall Jarrell (Mary Jarrell) (W); 23Feb68; R430132. The rhetoricians.

In England, you distinguish too much in favour of the latter; and, in a question of purchase, a Minister often prefers a "commodity" of rhetoricians, to one of "good names.

In England, you distinguish too much in favour of the latter; and, in a question of purchase, a Minister often prefers a "commodity" of rhetoricians, to one of "good names.

But notwithstanding an Excess of Modesty obstructs the Tongue, and renders it unfit for its Offices, a due Proportion of it is thought so requisite to an Orator, that Rhetoricians have recommended it to their Disciples as a Particular in their Art.

The Imagination and Elocution of this Set of Rhetoricians is wonderful.

If the rhetoricians of Newmarket, who may be supposed likely to conceive in its full strength the dignity of the subject, should undertake to express it, there is danger lest they admit some phrases which, though well understood at present, may be ambiguous in another century.