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Some on the other hand pay no
attention to results, as for example Aristotle,1 who
says “rhetoric is the power of discovering all means of
persuading by speech.” This definition has not merely
the fault already mentioned, but the additional defect of including merely the power of invention,
which without style cannot possibly constitute
oratory.
1 Rhet. i. 2.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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