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The arte of rhetorique: for the use of all suche as are studious of eloquence, sette forth in English

 
dc.contributor Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press
dc.contributor.author Wilson, Thomas, 1525?-1581
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dc.date.created 1553
dc.date.issued 1996-02-23
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dc.subject.lcsh Chrestomathies -- England -- 16th century
dc.title The arte of rhetorique: for the use of all suche as are studious of eloquence, sette forth in English
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The Arte of Rhetorique
for the use of all suche as are studious of Eloquence, sette forth in English
by
Thomas Wilson
To the right honorable Lorde, John Dudley, Lorde Lisle, Earle of Warwike, and maister of the horse to the kynges majestie: your assured to commaund Thomas Wilson.
When Pyrrhus Kynge of the Epirotes made battayle agaynste the Romaynes, and could neither by force of Armes, nor yet by anye Policye wynne certayne stronge holdes: he used communely to send one Cineas (a noble Oratour, and sometimes scholer to Demosthenes) to perswade with the Capitaynes and people that were in them, that they shoulde yelde up the sayde holde or townes without fyght or resistaunce. And so it came to passe, that through the pithye eloquence of this noble Oratoure, divers stronge Castels and Fortresses were peaceablye geven up into the handes of Pirrhus, whyche he shoulde have founde verye harde and tedious to wynne by the sworde. And this thinge was not Pirrhus himselfe ashamed in his commune t . . .
										
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