Carolina QuotesThe complete man, then, is the “lover” added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
“The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric,” p. 21.
- work
- The Ethics of Rhetoric (1953)
- year
- 1953
- locator
- p. 21
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