The Philosophy of RhetoricBoD – Books on Demand, 2023 M08 20 - 436 pages Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost. |
Contents
THE NATURE AND FOUNDATIONS OF ELOQUENCE | 21 |
Of Wit Humour and Ridicule | 30 |
Of Ridicule | 42 |
The Doctrine of the preceding Chapter defended | 49 |
Of the different Sources of Evidence and the different Subjects | 57 |
Experience | 74 |
The Superiority of Scientific Evidence reexamined | 80 |
Of the Nature and Use of the scholastic Art of Syllogizing | 93 |
The Nature and Use of Verbal Criticism with its principal Canons | 174 |
Of grammatical Purity | 192 |
Some grammatical Doubts in regard to English Construction stated | 227 |
Of the Qualities of Style strictly Rhetorical | 237 |
What is the Cause that Nonsense so often escapes being detected | 278 |
The extensive Usefulness of Perspicuity | 295 |
May there not be an Excess of Perspicuity 1 | 307 |
300 | 321 |
As endowed with Passions | 99 |
Importance | 108 |
How an unfavourable Passion must be calmed | 115 |
The different Kinds of public Speaking in use among the Moderns | 121 |
The Authors Hypothesis on this Subject | 151 |
BOOK II | 162 |
What are articulate Sounds capable of imitating and in what Degree? | 339 |
In what Esteem ought this Kind of Imitation to be held and when | 351 |
Complex Sentences | 385 |
Observations on loose Sentences | 401 |
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