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Assemblies of the people. The judicial is the same with the eloquence of the bar, employed in addressing judges, who have power to absolve or to condemn. This division runs through all the ancient treatises on rhetoric; and is followed by the modems who copy them. It is a division not inartificial; and comprehends most, or all of the matters which can be the subject of public discourse. It will, however, suit our pur. Pose better, and he found, I imagine, more useful, to follow that division Which the train of modern speaking naturally.
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Linda Ferreira-Buckley is an associate professor of English and rhetoric at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has appeared in such journals as College English and Rhetoric Review. S. Michael Halloran is a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is coeditor (with Gregory Clark) of Oratorical Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Essays on the Transformation of the Theory and Practice of Rhetoric.
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