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• M. T. Cicero de Oratore: or, His Three Dialogues Upon the Character and Qualifications of an Orator, Translated into English, with Notes Historical and Explanatory, and an Introductory Preface (Boston: R. P. and C. Williams, 1822), by Marcus Tullius Cicero, ed. by William Guthrie (page images at Google)
• Cicero's Brutus, or, History of Famous Orators; Also, His Orator, or, Accomplished Speaker, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by Edward Jones (Gutenberg text)
• Institutes of Oratory, by Quintilian, ed. by Lee Honeycutt, trans. by J. S. Watson (illustrated HTML at technorhetoric.net)
• The Arte of Rhetorique, by Thomas Wilson (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• The Verrine orations (Heinemann;, 1928), by Marcus Tullius Cicero and L. H. G. Greenwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogues sur l'eloquence en general, et sur celle de la chaire en particulier, par feu messire François de Salignac de La Motte Fenelon ... Avec les Reflexions sur la poésie françoise (Chez J.F. Bernard, 1718), by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon and Jean-Antoine Du Cerceau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The alliance of musick, poetry and oratory. Under the head of poetry is considered the alliance and nature of the epic and dramatic poem, as it exists in the Iliad, Aeneid and Paradise Lost (Printed for John Stockdale, 1789), by Anselm Bayly and James E. Matthew (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Instituto oratoria of Quintilian (W. Heinemann;, 1921), by Quintilian and Harold Edgeworth Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogues concerning eloquence in general; and particularly, that kind which is fit for the pulpit: by the late Archbishop of Cambray. With his letter to the French Academy, concerning rhetoric, poetry, history, and a comparison betwixt the antients and moderns (Printed by T. Wood, for J. Walthoe, Jun, 1722), by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon and William Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compendio rhetorico, ou Arte completa de rhetorica com methodo facil, para toda a pesoa curioza, sem frequentar as aulas, saber a arte da eloquencia: toda composta das mais fabias doutrinas dos melhores autores, que escrevêrão desta importante sciencia de falar bem. (S.T. Ferreira, 1794), by Bento Rodrigo Pereira de Soto-Maior e Menezes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ensaio de rhetorica, confórme o methodo doutrina de Quintiliano, e as reflexoes de authores mais celebres, que trataram desta materia. (Officina Luisiana, 1779), by Sebastiao de Santo Antonio (page images at HathiTrust)
• The principles of eloquence, adapted to the pulpit and the bar. (Printed by D. and G. Bruce, for Thompson, Hart and co. no. 186 Pearl-street, 1807), by Jean Siffrein Maury and John Neal Lake (page images at HathiTrust)
• M. Tullii Ciceronis ad Q. fratrem dialogi tres, De oratore (typis Thomae et Thomae; apud quos aliosq. bibliopolas in Faed Rebusp. Americae, veneunt, 1804), by Marcus Tullius Cicero, John Smith, and Zachary Pearce (page images at HathiTrust)
• A system of oratory, delivered in a course of lectures publicly read at Gresham College, London: : to which is prefixed an inaugural oration, spoken in Latin, before the commencement of the lectures, according to the usual custom. (Printed for John Ward ..., 1759), by John Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• M. Tulli Ciceronis libellus de optimo genere oratorum (J. D.Rauert, 1889), by Marcus Tullius Cicero and Edmund Hedicke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index rhetoricus et oratorius, scholis & institutioni tenerioris aetatis accommodatus. : Cui adjiciuntur formulae oratoriae, et index poeticus. (Apud Ioannem Ianssonium,, 1648), by Thomas Farnaby and Jan Jansson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of speaking (Printed by W. Godbid, and are to be sold by M. Pitt ..., 1676), by Bernard Lamy, Pierre Nicole, and Antoine Arnauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• The principles of eloquence : adapted to the pulpit and the bar (Printed for T. Cadell ... and C. Dilly, 1793), by Jean Siffrein Maury and John Neal Lake (page images at HathiTrust)
• The appeal of the oratory to the first ages of Christianity... ([s.n.], 1727), by John Henley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhétorique françoise (Chez Saillant [et] Desaint, 1767), by Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier (page images at HathiTrust)
• M. Fabii Quinctiliani De institutione oratoria libri duodecim cum notis et animadversionibus virorum doctorum (apud Joannem de Vivie, 1720), by Marco Fabio Quintiliano, Thomas Heath, Peter Burmann, Jean de Vivie, Colegio de la Compañía de Jesús (Villagarcía de Campos), Universidad Literaria de Madrid, Universidad Complutense (Alcalá de Henares), and Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Demosthenous Logoi duo kai exekonta. Habes lector Demosthenis Graecorum oratorum omnium facile principis orationes duas [et] sexaginta, [et] in easdem Vlpiani commentarios ... Libanii argumenta (per Iohannem Hervagium ..., 1532), by ca. 384-322 a.C. Demóstenes, Johann Herwagen, Desiderius Erasmus, Guillaume Bude, ca. 314-393 Libanius, Domicio Ulpiano, Colegio Menor de la Compañía de Jesús (Alcalá de Henares), and Universidad Complutense (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nicolai Caussini Trecensi, e Societate Iesu De eloquentia sacra et humana : libri XVI. (sumptibus Hermanni Demen sub signo Monocerotis, 1681), by Nicolas Caussin, Hermann Demen, and Universidad Complutense (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orator extemporaneus : seu, Artis oratoriæ breviarium bipartitum ... (Apud Jacobum à Meurs, 1661), by Michael Radau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Institutionis oratoriae. Book 10. (Hartmanni, 1826), by Quintilian, Karl Heinrich Frotscher, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus (page images at HathiTrust)
• M. Fabii Quinctiliani, ut ferunt, Declamationes XIX majores, et quae ex CCCLXXXVLLL supersunt CXLV minores. Et Calpurnii Flacci Declamationes. Cum notis doctorum virorum (Apud Joannem de Vivie, 1720), by Quintilian, Pieter Burman, and Flaccus Calpurnius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carta escrita a la academia francesa sobre la eloquencia, la poesia, la historia, &c (Ramon Ruiz, 1795), by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Retorica (Appresso Bartolomeo Robini,, 1569), by Bartolomeo Cavalcanti, Bartolomeo Rubini, and Pio Portinaio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wilson's Arte of rhetorique, 1560 (At the Clarendon press, 1909), by Thomas Wilson, Desiderius Erasmus, and G. H. Mair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oratio de svmmo gradv in artibvs liberalibvs et philosophia (Per Iohannem Syngrenium, 1558), by Martin Eisengrein, Johann Singriener, Georg Precht, and Elias Corvinus (page images at HathiTrust)
• La retorica (Per Bartolomeo Cesano, 1559), by Bartolomeo Cavalcanti, Pio Portinaio, and Duke University. Library. Gilbert Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• A system of oratory delivered in a course of lectures publicly read at Gresham College, London: to which is prefixed an inaugural oration, spoken in Latin, before the commencement of the lectures, according to the usual custom (Printed for John Ward, in Cornhill, opposite to the Royal Exchange, 1759), by John Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• De institutione oratoria, libri duo... (Philadelphiae, 1844), by Quintilian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brutus. (John Hartlett, 1853), by Marcus Tullius Cicero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orator Brutus,Topica, De optimo genere oratorum cum annotationibus Caroli Beiri ... (Turici, 1830), by Marcus Tullius Cicero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ciceros Orator. (Weidmann, 1869), by Marcus Tullius Cicero and Otto Jahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ad Quintum fratrem dialogi tres de oratore... (Novi Eboraci, 1832), by Marcus Tullius Cicero (page images at HathiTrust)
• De oratore. (sumtibus B. et G. Noyes, 1839), by Marcus Tullius Cicero and James Luce Kingsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• De oratore libri tres. (sumptus fecerunt fratres Borntraeger, 1840), by Marcus Tullius Cicero and Friedrich Theodor Ellendt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ad Quintum fratrem dialogi tres de oratore. (N.Y., 1860), by Marcus Tullius Cicero (page images at HathiTrust)
• De oratore. (Duyckinck et M. & W. Ward., 1810), by Marcus Tullius Cicero and Zachary Pearce (page images at HathiTrust)
• De oratore: In three books, with English notes. (Boston, 1823), by Marcus Tullius Cicero (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la composition oratoire (Paris, 1813), by Marcus Tullius Cicero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cicero on oratory and orators (Bell & Daldy, 1871), by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Edward Jones, George Barnes, and J. S. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of rhetoric made easy (University Microfilms, Inc., 1739), by John Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Menantes, Einleitung zur Teutschen Oratorie : und Brief-Verfassung, welche bey dieser andern auflage an einigen orten geändert und vermehret worden. (Verlegts Johann Friderich Zeitler Wittwe, 1726), by Christian Friedrich Hunold (page images at HathiTrust)
• De oratore (Eldredge & Brother, 1879), by Marcus Tullius Cicero and E. P. Crowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Artis oratoriae breviarium bipartitum (Apud Joannem Janssonium a ̀ Waesberge, 1673), by Michael Radau, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, Romeyn de Hooghe, and Adamus Motkowsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lezioni di eloquenza (Pietro Fiaccadori, 1825), by Angelo Teodoro Villa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il dialogo della partitione oratoria (Appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1566), by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari, and Orazio Toscanella (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brutus (Editorial catalana, s.a., 1924), by Marcus Tullius Cicero and Gumersindo Alabart Sans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertatio academica de demonstratione oratoria (Typis Efenkellianis, 1795), by Henrik Gabriel Porthan and Esaias Hildeen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art of rhetoric (London : Printed for William Crooke ..., 1681), by Thomas Hobbes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Some instructions concerning the art of oratory collected for the use of a friend a young student. (London : Printed by J.G. for R. Royston ..., 1659), by Obadiah Walker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The arte of rhetorique for the vse of all suche as are studious of eloquence, sette forth in English, by Thomas Wilson. ([[London] : Richardus Graftonus, typographus regius excudebat], Anno Domini. M.D.LIII. [1553] Mense Ianuarij), by Thomas Wilson and Desiderius Erasmus (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reflexions sur l'eloquence de l'usage de ce temps. English (London : Printed for Richard Preston ..., 1672), by René Rapin and N. N. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Declamationes pseudo-Quintilianeae (Minores) (London : Printed by J.R. for John Taylor ..., 1686), by Quintilian and John Warr (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Cicero redivivus, or, The art of oratory refin'd being two essays of elegancy : the first, containing plain and easie rules for scholars to make eloquent Latin, the second, usefull directions for young gentlemen and students to adorn their discourse and writings with a refin'd and genteel style / by John Twells, School-Master. (London : Printed for Benjamin Crayle ..., 1688), by John Twells (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Traité de l'action de l'orateur. English (London : Printed for Nich. Cox ..., [1680?]), by Michel Le Faucheur (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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