Richard Rainolde, The Foundation of Rhetoric (1563)
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Date
1563
Author
Richard Rainolde Note: 12/10/2005
Book title
A booke called the Foundacion of rhetorike, because all other partes of rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde: made by Richard Rainolde Maister of Arte, of the Uniuersitie of Cambridge. 1563
Publication place
London
Publisher
Ihon Kingston
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
rhetoric
Summary
Intermittent logical definitions among many orations exhibiting the features of the classical genre.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: english
explanations: english
explanations: english
explanations: english
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: ... aucthours doe define a sentence in this maner. A sentence is an Oracion, in fewe woordes, shewyng a godlie precept of life, exhorting or diswadyng: the Grekes dooe call godly preceptes, by the name of Gnome, or Gnomon, whiche is asmoche to saie, a rule or square, to direct any thyng by, for by them, the life of manne is framed to all singularitie. Thei are diuers sortes of sentences, one exhorteth, an other diswadeth, some onely sheweth: there is a sentence simple, compounde, profitable, true, & soche like. (20r)
sample: ... aucthours doe define a sentence in this maner. A sentence is an Oracion, in fewe woordes, shewyng a godlie precept of life, exhorting or diswadyng: the Grekes dooe call godly preceptes, by the name of Gnome, or Gnomon, whiche is asmoche to saie, a rule or square, to direct any thyng by, for by them, the life of manne is framed to all singularitie. Thei are diuers sortes of sentences, one exhorteth, an other diswadeth, some onely sheweth: there is a sentence simple, compounde, profitable, true, & soche like. (20r)
Alston
VI.18
STC
20925a.5 (formerly 20604) reel 857:15
Facsimiles
Rainolde, Richard. The Foundacion of Rhetorike. New York: Scholars' facsimilies & reprints, 1945. view record
Rainolde, Richard. The Foundation of Rhetoric, 1563. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 347). Menston: Scolar Press, 1972. view record
Rainolde, Richard. The Foundation of Rhetoric, 1563. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 347). Menston: Scolar Press, 1972. view record
