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It is evident that in its primary signification, Rhetoric had reference to public Speaking alone, as its etymology implies. But as most of the rules for Speaking are of course applica ble equally to Writing, an extension of the term naturally took place and we find even Aristotle, the earliest systematic writer on the subject whose works have come down to us, in cluding in his Treatise rules for such compositions as were not intended to be publicly recited.' And even as far as re lates to Speeches, properly so called, he takes, in the same Treatise, at one time, a wider, and at another, a more restrict ed view of the subject; including under the term Rhetoric, in the opening of his work, nothing beyond the finding of topics of Persuasion, as far as regards the matter of what is spoken and afterwards embracing the consideration of Style, Arrangement, and Delivery.

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