In Renaissance Italy, the literae humaniores--rhetoric, grammar, poetry, history, and moral philosophy were studied by the sons of the elite so they could advance themselves in a world that required abundant knowledge, critical thought, and clear communication to succeed.
Lawyers formed a large educated class with an appreciation of rhetoric and grammar and some taste for poetry, history, and philosophy.
Eventually there were additions of mathematics, nature study, rhetoric, poetry, grammar, and astronomy all studied, it seems, very largely through the medium of the Irish language.
Having introduced the topic, Sack next gave a chapter breakdown of his book, tracing his arguments through chapters on Translation, Language, Algorithms, Logic, Rhetoric, and Grammar.
A Mason who could not remember the other six would need only to look up, for they are written on the ceiling: arithmetic, rhetoric, logic, grammar, music and astronomy.
Crews also edited several works, including The Random House Handbook (1974; 6th ed., 1992), a text on rhetoric and grammar, and Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend (1998), a collection of revisionist scholarship on Freud.
This seminar investigates and interrogates points of intersection between poetic and architectural traditions by focusing on a particular set of literary concepts or strategies, including genre, decorum, rhetoric, ornament, grammar, and style, and architectural "places" such as the villa, garden, ruin or fragment, city, and utopia.
(According to this criterion, the order among the sciences of language is: logic, rhetoric, and grammar).
In rhetoric and grammar, analogy was the method of settling a doubt about a word's form by appeal to a similar and more certain case.
Since dialectic, like rhetoric and grammar, deals with language, its rules should be adapted to the rules of ordinary language; but with what language, he asks, have these propositions to do?
