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Note 32: In the Oxford English Dictionary, this is the first definition of eloquence (from eloqui, to speak out).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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And it is frequently applied unto speaking, when it signifies "eloqui aut proferre verba more scaturiginis."
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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_Cum ad veros judices ventum est, **** rem cogitare **** nihil humile, nihil abjectum eloqui poterat.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Where _et_ alone carries the adversative sense, it is generally used to join two opposing verbs or verbal phrases: compare Cic _Tusc_ I 6 'fieri ... potest ut recte quis sentiat _et_ id quod sentit polite eloqui non possit' and Sen _NQ_ II 18
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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“Fieri potest ut recte quis sentiat, sed id quod sentit polite eloqui non possit.”
Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846
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* Praestat eloqui, modo cum prudentia, quam sine eloquio acutissime cogitare: [355] 1
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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Praestat eloqui, modo cum prudentia, quam sine eloquio acutissime cogitare, said the great master of eloquence.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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Intelligere recte, agere recte, et eloqui recte omnia necessaria.
The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631
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_Voces_, _verba_, 3. and teacheth how to utter, write, 4. put together and part them rightly. docetque eloqui, scribere, 4. construere, distinguere
The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631
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Permittat, ut finiam, tod coepi eloqui, & fic refpondeat.
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