The subtleties of the law were, however, brought into requisition. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Charles Roger. Every sort of common game was in requisition, while drinking was far from being neglected.
In the words of Aristotle, in the Rhetoric, rhetoric is ... the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.. According to Aristotle, this art of persuasion could be used in public settings in three different ways.
In one view, rhetoric is the art of ornament; in the other, the art of persuasion. Rhetoric as ornament stresses the manner of presentation; rhetoric as persuasion stresses the matter, the content . . ...