Ramus inspired many followers , including Omer Talon , John Brimsley and others . By the mid-17th Century , Ramist rhetoric was the main method used by Protestant academics . The influence of Classicist Latin rhetoric was kept alive in Roman Catholic schools and universities , however . Modern vernacular rhetoric has its origins at Harvard College , and was heavily influenced by English and philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes , John Evelyn and Thomas Sprat , who believed in unadorned , plain language as opposed to ``fine speaking ' John Dryden...











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