“No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar..”

— Richard Whately

Introduction, p. 17
Elements of Rhetoric (1828)

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

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