Books on Rhetoric
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E T A Hoffmann and the Rhetoric of Terror. Aspects of Language Used for the Evocation of Fear.
viii 307p grey card cover, bibliography, a fresh and clean copy, reproduced from typescript
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Greek Oratory, Revision of Speeches and the Problem of Historical Reliability.
20p offprint, clean and tight copy, with author note, very good
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What Shall I Tell Them? A New Series of Talks to Women.
143p hardback with red jacket, fresh and tight copy, 1953 reprint
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Der Herrscher - "Adventus" im Kloster des Frühmittelalters.
204p large format, bright green cloth with black title label to spine (label rather worn), a fresh ...
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Brochure on the Subject: Public Speaking.
36p slim paperback with blue card cover, questions and bibliographical references on recto pages, ...
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International University Course. Public Speaking.
this is a 28p booklet, brown card cover, advertising the Public Speaking course of the IUS, for ...
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The Olynthiacs of Demosthenes.
166p plain dark publisher's cloth with light library markings, this copy interleaved for the ...
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Early Christian Rhetoric: The Language of the Gospel.
143p cloth, dustjacket (few small hurts to edges), indices, occasional small neat marginal pen ...
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Analogy and the Scope of its Application in Language.
50p bound in thin full calf, front board detached, spine rubbed, text with red ink underlining t a ...
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Sweet Reason: Rhetoric and the Discourses of Modernity.
xii 286p paperback, excellent fresh copy
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Propaganda. Power and Persuasion.
vi 210p large format paperback, black cover with red lettering and Uncle Sam, like new condition, ...
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Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum, Dictionarius Anglo-Latinus Princeps. Volume I and II.
xi 439 two volumes, original green cloth with blind-stamped design to front, with frontispiece, ...
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Demosthenes' Orations.
xiii 292p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, bookplate on title page, pages bright and clean, very ...
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Parables and Precepts - For Preachers and Teachers.
xii 130p cloth, dustjacket, a full store of stories to "bring home a point"
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Just Intonation in Song and Speech.
105p plus 28 plates of musical notation, some in colour, all edges gilt, large format bound in full ...
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Deutsche Metrik: Eine historische Einführung.
140p cream paperback with blue lettering, pages unmarked, binding firm, excellent condition
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Deutsche Metrik: Eine historische Einführung.
140p yellow paperback, pages unmarked, binding firm, excellent condition
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Tableau de l'éloquence Chrétienne au IVe Siècle.
viii 837p bound in contemporary half calf black, lettered to spine, minor library markings, fresh ...
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Seventeenth Century Prose. An Anthology.
266p hardback with orange boards, a bit dusty, and a bit worn, text clean and binding tight
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Ascoltare il Silenzio. La Retorica come Teoria.
300p hardback in original shrink-wrapping, as new
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Discursos. 3 volumes.
347p, 407p, 349p, 3 volume paperback set, cream card cover with black and red titles extremely well ...
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Proverbs and Their Lessons. Being the Substance of Lectures Delivered to Young Men's Societies at Portsmouth and Elsewhere. Fourth Edition, Revised.
vii 155p blindstamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, front hinge yielding a little, ...
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La Figura dell'Antitesi nelle Massime di La Rochefoucauld.
168p wrappers, index, very good: Paradosso etico e scandalo logico, Pascal, Voltaire
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Les Caractères de la Démonstration dans l'Apologie Pascalienne. Essai sur la Méthode de Démonstration, plus exactement de Persuasion, voire même de Révélation dans l'Apologie Pascalienne.
173p paperback, well preserved, entirely un-cut, never read, paper yellowing
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Modeles de Discours et Allocutions pour les Distributions de Prix dans les Ecoles Primaires des Deux Sexes.
vii 431p rebound in plain green library buckram, excellent copy, slight foxing to some pages, fresh ...
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Per la Storia della Satira.
166p from a Cambridge college library, rebinding in blue cloth, minimal library markings, new ...
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Opera Minora. Ed. Henricus Furneaux.
approx 140p original navy cloth binding very tight and clean, light library markings but never ...
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Opera Minora. Ed. Henricus Furneaux.
approx 140p original navy cloth binding very tight and clean, hardly used: Germania, Agricola, De ...
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Magister Nicolaus de Dybin. Vorstudien zu einer Edition seiner Schriften. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der literarischen Rhetorik im späteren Mittelalter.
302p cloth with bright grey dustjacket, as new, excellent copy, as new
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Usurpator tanti nominis. Kaiser und Usurpator in der Spätantike.
large format hardback, laminated boards with white and dark burgundy panels, an excellent copy, ...
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Religious Polemic in the Era of the Counter-Reformation: The Use of Pierre de Ronsard and Michel de Montaigne in Florimond de Raemonds "L'Histoire de la Naissance, Progrez et Decadence de l'Heresie de ce Siecle."
400p spiral bound thesis, reproduced from typescript, very well preserved, University of London M ...
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Questions and Discussion.
30p stapled pamphlet, from a Cambridge college library, good condition
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Über die Verbindlichkeit des Schrifttums.
28p blue card cover, pages clean, hardly used, very good
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Speeches and Toasts: How to Make and Propose Them. Rev ed.
192p embossed green cloth, fresh and clean, only very light rubbing to corners and spine ends, ...
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Prosodia Rationalis, or, an Essay towards Establishing the Medody and Measure of Speech, to be Expressed and Perpetuated by Peculiar Symbols. 2nd Ed, Enlarged. (1779).
xvii 243p sm 4to, cloth, new: an answer to Mondboddo & Adam Smith's Origin and Progress of ...
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Report of the Proceedings at the Commencement of the Hundredth Session of the Speculative Society (1863)
36p large format, full calf binding, both boards fully detached, text clean, scarce title
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Concepts of Indoctrination: Philosophical Essays.
xiv 210p blue cloth, index, notes, bibliography, various contributors, faint marginal markings on a ...
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Defeatists and their Enemies. Political Invective in France 1914 - 1918.
viii 206p hardback with fresh dustjacket,frontispiece, a few pages with pencil or ink lines to the ...
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Expository Science: Forms and Functions of Popularisation.
hardback, with dustjacket, from a Cambridge college library, very good, this book has never been ...
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Demosthenes. Olynthiacs I - III.
95p small red hardback with black ornamentation to front board, cover a little faded especially to ...
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Studies in Seventeenth-Century Prose. (Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol 10, no 2)
viii 128p original paper cover, fresh and clean: Essays by Vos, Pebworth, Sandler, Patrick, ...
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La Communication. Hermes 1.
245p period paperback, fresh and clean copy, spine not creased, excellent
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L Annaei Senecae Oratorum et Rhetorum Sententiae, Divisiones, Colores.
xivi 557p blue publisher's cloth with floral border in black, minimal library markings, spine ...
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Didaktik der politischen Rede in England.
168p paperback, cover a little dusty, text clean, appendices, bibliography, very good
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Identität und Synonymie: Logisch-semantische Untersuchungen unter Berücksichtigung der sprachlichen Verständigungspraxis.
260p orange paperback, minor shelfwear, spine slightly sunned, pages clean and unmarked, binding ...
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Sprache und Herrschaft: Studien zur Theorie politischer Rhetorik und ihrer zeitgenössischen Praxis in den USA.
vii 354p grey card cover, tape along spine, bibliography, appendix, reproduced from typescript, ...
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