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Updated: June 29, 2025
Who were these "rhetorici" that have made this passage so difficult for commentators and have caused so various constructions to be put upon it? It is clear, the professor maintains, that the reference is to pagan rhetors from Gaul whose arrogant presumption, founded on their learning, made them regard with disdain the comparatively illiterate apostle of the Scots.
There were two classes of Greeks at this period who effected in no small degree the general spread of culture. These were the rhetors and the sophists; properly speaking distinct, but often confounded under the general name of sophist. The rhetors proper have been already described. We need only notice here the gradually increasing insignificance of the themes they chose.
The rhetors, the stump-speakers, the politicians, and the intriguers hold the power, and humanity and history shudder at the results. Oct. 29. McClellan, with his wonted intrepidity and rapidity, crossed the Potomac from all directions, pushes on Winchester, and will find there wherefrom every animal willingly discharges itself.
His reign closed in 14 A.D., and with it ceases for near a century the appearance of the highest genius in Rome. The different rhetors declaim as follows, making Leonidas the speaker: Arellius Fuscus. What! are our picked ranks made up of raw recruits, or spirits likely to be cowed, or hands likely to shrink from the unaccustomed steel, or bodies enfeebled by wounds or decay?
The same experiment was tried with the same result on various classes of men; on poets, mechanics, and especially on the rhetors and sophists, the chief of all the pretenders to wisdom.
They shared some of McClellan's fallacious and petty notions, and very likely they have been gulled by the McClellan-Seward expectations of taking Richmond before July 4th. Gen. Hunter's letter about fugitive slaves, and rebels fugitive from the flag of the Union, is the noblest contra distinction. No rhetor could have invented it. Hang yourselves, oh rhetors! July 4th.
In fact in some cases it would require only the very slightest change to make those exercitations of the rhetors which are not called "epistles" definite letters in form, while some of the best known and characteristic of their works are so entitled. It was unfortunate for the Greeks, as it would seem, and for us more certainly, that letter-writing was so much affected by these "rhetoricians."
The administration a success De gustibus Stuart's raid West Point St. Domingo The President's letter to McClellan Broad church The elections The Republican party gone The remedy at the polls McClellan wants to be relieved Mediation Compromise The rhetors.
Just about this time the rhetor and romance-writer Hegesias of Magnesia and the numerous rhetors and literati of Asia Minor who attached themselves to him began to rebel against the orthodox Atticism.
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