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The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy
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ISBN: 1282139053 9786613808349 0809386828 0585257795 9780585257792 9780809386826 0809313014 9780809313013 0809313022 9780809313020 0809329026 9780809329021 Year: 2009 Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,

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Makes accessible to modern readers the 17th-century rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1677) and Bernard Lamy (1640-1715) Hobbes' A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique, the first English translation of Aristotle's rhetoric, reflects Hobbes' sense of rhetoric as a central instrument of self-defense in an increasingly fractious Commonwealth. In its approach to rhetoric, which Hobbes defines as "that Faculty by which wee understand what will serve our turne, concerning any subject, to winne beliefe in the hearer," the Briefe looks forward to Hobbes'

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ISBN: 0585258813 9780585258812 080931049X 9780809310494 Year: 1982 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Southern Illinois University Press

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