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Thomas Wilson (rhetorician)

Overview

Thomas Wilson (1524–1581), Esquire, LL.D., was an English diplomat and judge who served as a privy councillor and Secretary of State (1577–81) to Queen Elizabeth I. He is remembered especially for his Logique (1551) and The Arte of Rhetorique (1553), which have been called "the first complete works on logic and rhetoric in English".

He also wrote A Discourse upon Usury by way of Dialogue and Orations (1572), and he was the first to publish a translation of Demosthenes into English.

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Philosophers who discussed Thomas Wilson (rhetorician)

• R. H. Tawney

Related ideas

• Latin
• Heresy
• Rhetoric
• Ferrara
• Logic
• Padua
• Low Countries
• Prose

Place in the tradition

Part of British philosophy.

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