ABSTRACT
Rhetoric [is] nothing but … an art of persuasion, and of stirring the inclinations; charming the souls of the unthinking with … well-wrought gaudery, and deceptive semblance … [by] those strumpet's cosmetics of exposition … yet all those who fill people's ears with empty rhetoric, instead of with the simple words of the truth, will have to give account on judgement day of those things that they, lying to God, have vainly spewed out.
