William Michael Purcell

Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons

• Author(s): Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1841
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• Publisher: Unknown

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FBI National Academy

• Author(s): Randy W. Baumgardner

• Categories: Political Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2000
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• Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

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The London Gazette

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1854
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Shoreline Management Initiative: an Assessment of Residential Shoreline Development Impacts in the Tennessee Valley

• Categories: Aquatic resources

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1998
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Rhetoric in European Culture and Beyond

• Author(s): Jiří Kraus

• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2015-03-01
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• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press

This book, Rhetoric in European and World Culture, defines the position of rhetoric in the cultural and educational systems from ancient times through the present. It examines the decline of its importance in a period of rationalism and enlightenment, presents the causes of why rhetoric (reduced to a system of rhetorical tricks) came to have negative connotations, and explains why rhetoric in the 20th century was able to regain its position. It demonstrates that the prestige of rhetoric sharply falls when it is reduced to a refined method for deceiving the public, and increases when it is seen as a scientific discipline that is used throughout all of the fields of the humanities - philosophy...