Carolina QuotesRhetoric in its truest sense seeks to perfect men by showing them better versions of themselves, links in that chain extending up toward the ideal.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
“The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric,” p. 25.
- work
- The Ethics of Rhetoric (1953)
- year
- 1953
- locator
- p. 25
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