Rhetorick

Documentary evidence and receipts in Goldsmith's handwriting, acknowledging various sums for writing the "Rhetorick," and others of the above exist.

Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature Edwin Pearson

I confess, however, that my paltry Abilities to play the Critick do not much extend to the flower'd Branches of Rhetorick.

"Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime." Ann Althouse 2008

That your Deshabille drop't as your Ardour rose, was a Novelty of Rhetorick, which I confess I had not seen.

I call Barack Obama to account for picking another bland, midwestern pretty boy. Ann Althouse 2008

'Tis faithful Love's the Rhetorick that persuades,

A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

The first citation in the OED is 1656, a definition which says that alliteration is 'a figure in Rhetorick, repeating and playing on the same letter'.

On alliterating, or not DC 2007

The first citation in the OED is 1656, a definition which says that alliteration is 'a figure in Rhetorick, repeating and playing on the same letter'.

Archive 2007-03-01 DC 2007

Persuasion hung upon his lips, and the elements of Logick and Rhetorick were so blended up in him, — and, withal, he had so shrewd a guess at the weaknesses and passions of his respondent, — that Nature might have stood up and said, — ‘This man is eloquent.’ —

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Persuasion hung upon his lips, and the elements of Logick and Rhetorick were so blended up in him, — and, withal, he had so shrewd a guess at the weaknesses and passions of his respondent, — that Nature might have stood up and said, — ‘This man is eloquent.’ —

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

I might study Mathematics, and Poetry and Rhetorick and Logick, as auxiliary Sciences and Arts, but my principal Attention should be directed at british Law, and roman and Grecian Antiquities.

John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759 1961

A few disgraces and defeats have done more, towards convincing the Congress, than the Rhetorick of many months, assisted by frequent Letters from the General, and many other Officers of the Army, was able to effect.

John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961