...eloquence not at all fit for the bar, but proper for history, and rather to be read, than heard. For words that pass away (as in public orations they must)...to meditate on, ought rather to be pithy, and full. Cicero therefore doth justly set him apart from the rank of pleaders, but withal, he continually giveth...

...eloquence not at all fit for the bar; but proper for history, and rather to be read than heard. For words that pass away (as in public orations they must)...to meditate on, ought rather to be pithy and full. Cicero therefore doth justly set him apart from the rank of pleaders; but withal, he continually giveth...

...eloquence not at all fit for the bar; but proper for history, and rather to be read than heard. For words that pass away (as in public orations they must)...to meditate on, ought rather to be pithy and full" (Hobbes's Thucydides Richard Schlatter, ed., 16, 25, 27). Descartes in Discourse on Method (arguably...

...writes, is "rather to be read than heard. For words that pass away (as in public orations they mustl without pause, ought to be understood with ease, and...to meditate on, ought rather to be pithy and fulL" Hobbes distinguishes Thucydides ' oratory, specifically, from the rhetoric of the courtroom. Thucydides'...

...eloquence was "not at all fit for the bar; but proper for history, and rather to be read than heard. For words that pass away (as in public orations they must)...to meditate on, ought rather to be pithy and full." 1 In some way, Hobbes's entire career after his translation of Thucydides—his entire career, that...