“Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill.”

— Richard Whately

Introduction, p. 13
Elements of Rhetoric (1828)

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English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian 1787–1863

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