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Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
Oratory -- Early works to 1800.
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"The arte of rhetorique for the vse of all suche as are studious of eloquence, sette forth in English, by Thomas Wilson." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15530.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2025.
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¶Progression.
PRogression* 1.1 standeth vpō contrarie sentences which
answere one another. If we would rebuke a naugh∣ty
boie, we might with cōmendyng a good boie, say
thus. What a boie are thou in cōpar••son of this fel∣low
here. Thou sleapes: he wakes: thou plaies: he studies:
thou art euer abrode: he is euer at home: thou neuer waites:
he stil doth his attendaunce: thou carest for no body: he doeth
his dutie to al men: thou doest what thou ca••st to hurt al, &
please none: he doth what he can, to hurte none, & please all.