Examples of rhetorician

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They were both exceptionally learned statesmen and consummate rhetoricians.
The rhetoricians' own traditional distinction between figures of sound and figures of sense will be useful.
In the middle decades of the eighteenth century, however, philosophers and rhetoricians widely attacked writing for its allegedly destructive influence on both language and morals.
The rhetoricians generally distinguish between figures of sense, such as metaphor, and figures of sound, such as alliteration, but the distinction is rarely sharp.
Now it had been long recognized by ancient rhetoricians that mathematics was the field par excellence in which students could devote themselves exclusively to learning.
Manipulating dimensions, the heresthetician's province, may depend on the rhetorician's ability to influence the salience of different issues.
As we will see, rhetoricians and grammarians of the eighteenth century strongly disagreed with this narrow understanding of what is 'essential' to language.
In an age of slogans, when so many of the poet's words had been stolen by rhetoricians, the cupboard was bound to look alarmingly bare.
The poem is an elegy, but also a eulogy, a dramatic narrative of praise, enhanced (or 'amplified', to use the rhetoricians' term) with all the colours of rhetoric.
The power and use of metaphor and analogy at different historical moments in science has been a topic of scholarly interest especially among rhetoricians in the 1990s.
In doing so, he prepared the way for his later reputation as a rhetorician uninterested in the new science of modern historiography.
We are left with a small group of rhetoricians to support what they say is a great cause and a great attack.
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