Clerics competing for and against “eloquence” in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 47-67

  Manolescu, Beth Innocenti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 84904825823     PISSN: 02773945     EISSN: 1930322X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02773940009391169     Document Type: Article

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