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  • It is an art, please note, closely related to ethics, for those same theorists described the truly successful orator as vir bonus dicendi peritus -- a good man, skilled in public speaking.

    Jesuit: Obama is "the most effective spokesperson" for "the spirit of Vatican II" 2009

  • Qui rebus se exercet, verba negligit, et qui callet artem dicendi, nullam disciplinam habet recognitam.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Christianissimi eximiam pietatem imitante filio, Diuo Friderico secundo rege nostro sanctissimo, Anno 1588. ad coelestem patriam euocato, aucta et promota: quæ etiam hodiè, clementissimi regis et principis nostri, Christiani 4. fauore et nutu viget floretque: in qua iuuentus nostræ Insulæ, artium dicendi et sacræ Theologiæ rudimentis imbuta, ad scientiam et veram pietatem formatur, vt hinc ministri Ecclesiarum petantur.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Christianissimi eximiam pietatem imitante filio, Diuo Friderico secundo rege nostro sanctissimo, Anno 1588. ad coelestem patriam euocato, aucta et promota: qu� etiam hodi�, clementissimi regis et principis nostri, Christiani 4. fauore et nutu viget floretque: in qua iuuentus nostr� Insul�, artium dicendi et sacr� Theologi� rudimentis imbuta, ad scientiam et veram pietatem formatur, vt hinc ministri Ecclesiarum petantur.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Franz Quadlbauer, “Die antike Theorie der genera dicendi im lateinischen Mittelalter,” Üsterreichische

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968

  • Form B thus includes ornatus verborum and modus dicendi.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968

  • They dis - tinguished two kinds of form: one purely sensory, i.e., acoustic (quae mulcet aurem) or musical (suavitas cantilenae); the other, mental or conceptual form, the manner of expression (modus dicendi), embraced tropes and metaphors and was on the whole optical in kind, employing images and constituting the visual aspect of poetry.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968

  • The Platonic tripartition survived, but the real division of genres followed the rhetorical tripartition of the genera dicendi — high, middle, low — exemplified by Vergil in the Aeneid, the

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968

  • The word used in these places is logos, "speech," which is well rendered "utterance," -- that is, parrhesia en to apophthengesthai, "facultas et libertas dicendi," an ability and liberty to speak out the things we have conceived: Logos en anoixei tou stomatos en parrhesia, Eph. vi.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Id non eo tantum, quod si vis illa dicendi malitiam instruxerit, nihil sit publicis privatisque rebus perniciosius eloquentia: sed nos quoque ipsi, qui pro virile parte conferre aliquid ad facultatem dicendi conati sumus, pessime mereamur de rebus humanis, SI LATRONI COMPAREMUS

    An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition George Sharswood

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