Excerpt from Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence, or the Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity, Vol. 1 of 2: Translated Into English, After the Best Latin Editions, With Notes, Critical and Explanatory

During such a state of the public the busi ])ness of rhetoric was to teach men not how to E express but how to conceal their thoughts.

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