Philip Melanchthon: Doing

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“What do you believe was on the mind of the ancient Romans that they called the arts of speaking humanity? They judged that, indisputably, by the study of these disciplines not only was the tongue refined, but also the wildness and barbarity of people’s minds was amended.”

Philip Melanchthon

Source: Praise of Eloquence (1523), p. 66

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“You can see for what reason I commend the study of eloquence to you—because we can neither explain what we ourselves want, nor understand the surviving writing written by our ancestors, unless we have thoroughly studied a fixed rule for speaking. For my part, I do not see how there could be others who wish neither to explain what they think, nor to understand what is excellently said.”

Philip Melanchthon

Source: Praise of Eloquence (1523), p. 64

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“What do you believe was on the mind of the ancient Romans that they called the arts of speaking humanity?”

Philip Melanchthon

They judged that, indisputably, by the study of these disciplines not only was the tongue refined, but also the wildness and barbarity of people’s minds was amended.
Source: Praise of Eloquence (1523), p. 66

Art