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SECOND VOLUME.
OF THE
II.-CONTINUED.
The Foundations and essential Properties of Elo- cution-continued.
Part I.
Part II.
Part III.
Part IV.
BOOK
Page
CHAP. V. Of the qualities of style strictly rhetorical.... I
CHAP. VI. Of perspicuity.
4
SECT. I.
The obscure
7
. ib.
From defect
From bad arrangement
From using the same word in different senses
From an uncertain reference in pronouns and
relatives
19
From too artificial a structure of the sentence. 20
From technical terms
21
Part V.
Part VI.
Part VII. From long sentences.
SECT. II. The double meaning.
Part I. Equivocation.
Ambiguity
SECT. III.
Part
I.
...
The unintelligible
From confusion of thought.
From affectation of excellence
From want of meaning . .".
Under this the various kinds of nonsense,
1. The puerile
2. The learned
3. The profound...
4. The marvellous .
....
II
17
22
24
25
33
56
• 67
68
57
бо
64
75
76
SECT. II.
CHAP. VIII.
..80
CHAP. VII. What is the cause that nonsense so often es-
capes being detected, both by the writer and
by the reader.
SECT. I. The nature and power of signs, both in speak-
ing and in thinking
The application of the preceding principles
The extensive usefulness of perspicuity
When is obscurity apposite, if ever it be appo-
site, and what kind?
Objections answered
ib.
121
May there not be an excess of perspicuity?.. 130
CHAP. IX.
2.
BOOK III.
The discriminating Properties of Elocution.
CHAP. I.
3. Things sensible for things intelligible
4. Things animate for things lifeless
98
III
.... ·
Of vivacity as depending on the choice of words 135
Proper terms
. 136
151
Rhetorical tropes
Preliminary observations concerning tropes... ib.
The different sorts of tropes conducive to viva-
city....
The less for the more general ...
The most interesting circumstance distinguish-
ed...
.163
. . ib. .
The use of those tropes which are obstructive
to vivacity..
184
. 197
SECT. III. Words considered as sounds..
What are articulate sounds capable of imitat-
ing, and in what degree?
198
Part II. In what esteem ought this kind of imitation to
be held, and when ought it to be attempt-
ed?.
CHAP. II. Of vivacity as depending on the number of the
words
226
166
171
176
222
SECT. I. This quality explained and exemplified . . . . . 226
SECT. II. The principal offences against brevity consider-
Part III,
CHAP. III.
Tautology
Pleonasm
Verbosity
Of vivacity as depending on the arrangement of
the words...
264
SECT. I. Of the nature of arrangement, and the principal
division of sentences
parts of a sentence
Of conjunctions...
Of other connectives
Simple sentences
Complex sentences
293
Subdivision of these into periods and loose sentences ib.
Observations on periods, and on the use of an-
tithesis in the composition of sentences.
Observations on loose sentences.
Review of what has been deduced above in re-
gard to arrangement ... .
CHAP. IV. Of the connectives employed in combining the
322
•
- 337
Modern languages compared with Greek and
Latin, particularly in regard to the compo-
sition of sentences
353
CHAP. V. Of the connectives employed in combining the
sentences in a discourse
361
The necessity of connectives for this purpose. 362
Observations on the manner of using the con-
nectives in combining sentences.
235
236
240
246
268
300
319
324
326
364