Sentence examples for rhetoric lectures from inspiring English sources

Shorn of Mr Hashimoto's personal brand of hair-raising rhetoric, lectures at the institute deal mainly in mundane issues such as tax reform and international relations.The names of the institute's 888 students were leaked to a magazine last month, revealing a strikingly conservative political base.

Skilled in logic and Hebrew and a teacher of rhetoric, Apollinaris also lectured at Antioch c. 374.

From this came the name "Sophist," describing a set of itinerant Greek educators of the fifth century BCE who gave lectures on rhetoric for a fee, and emphasized individualism and the importance of self-presentation.

He also published an essay on the first formation of languages, and student notes of his lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres, and on jurisprudence have survived.

Over the course of his professional career, Vico also composed and delivered lectures on rhetoric to students preparing to enter into the study of jurisprudence.

Adam Smith, in his 21st lecture on rhetoric in 1763, argued that poetry should deal with "A temper of mind that differs very little from the common tranquillity of mind is what we can best enter into, by the perusal of a small piece of a small length ... an Ode or Elegy in which there is no odds but in the measure which differ little from the common state of mind are what most please us.

These people are far more realistic and more reasonable than the Church's soaring lectures and world-conquering rhetoric.