 | Alexander Magnus Drummond - Elocution - 1925 - 322 pages
...There remain some definitions which have greater promise. We may mention first that of Aristotle : "the faculty of observing in any given case the • available means of persuasion" ; 1 this readily turns into the art of persuasion, as the editors of the New English Dictionary recognize... | |
 | Aristotle - Aesthetics - 1927 - 528 pages
...relation to style, as in its widest bearings — logical, ethical, political : he defines rhetoric as " the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion," and busies himself with the discovery of arguments or inducements which can convince the mind, and... | |
 | William Rhys Roberts - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 184 pages
...sophistries. Aristotle's formal definition of rhetoric comes at the beginning of his second chapter : ' Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing...any given case the available means of persuasion.' 3 Speech, as the organ of persuasion, is implied in the word ' rhetoric,' which means etymologically... | |
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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. 
