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I.The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric[3]
II.Dialectic and Rhetoric at Dayton, Tennessee[27]
III.Edmund Burke and the Argument from Circumstance[55]
IV.Abraham Lincoln and the Argument from Definition[85]
V.Some Rhetorical Aspects of Grammatical Categories[115]
VI.Milton’s Heroic Prose[143]
VII.The Spaciousness of Old Rhetoric[164]
VIII.The Rhetoric of Social Science[186]
IX.Ultimate Terms in Contemporary Rhetoric[211]
Index[233]