Lectures On Rhetoric And Belles Lettres Vol 3 Of 3 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Vol. 3 of 3 Speaking, and which, as far as the fubjeet allowed, I have endeavoured to form into fome fort of fyftem. It remains, that I enter on the confideration of the moft diliinguifhed kinds of Compofitioh both in Proie and Verfe, and' point out the principles of Criticifm relating to them. This part of the work might eafily be drawn out to a great length but I am fen fible, that critical difcu ions, when they are purfued too far, become both tri ing and te dious. I {hall Rudy, therefore, to avoid nu necefiary prolixity; and hope, at the fame time, to omit nothing that is very material under the feveral heads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Excerpt from Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Vol. 2 of 3 Figures of Speech, of their origin, of their nature, and of the management of fuch of them as are important enough to require a particular difcuflion, before finally dimifiing this fubjeét, I think it incumbent on me to make fome oh fervations concerning the proper ufe of Figura tive Language in general. Thefe, indeed, I have, in part, already anticipated. But, as great errors are often committed in this part of Style, efpecially by young writers, it may be ofufe that I bring together, under one View, the mofl; ma terial directions on this head. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Vol. 1 of 3 Fiyle of the ngofi eminent writers in our lan guage, his own fiyle.hall be thought open to reprehenfion; all that he can fay, is, that his book will add one to the many proofs already afforded to the world} of its; being much eafier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres The following lectures were read in the University of Edin burgh for twenty-four years. The publication of them, at present, was not altogether a matter Of choice. Imperfect copies {of them, in manuscript, from notes taken by students who heard them read, were first privately handed about and afterward frequently exposed to public sale. When the author saw them circulate so currently, as even to be quoted in print, * and found himself often threatened with surreptitious publications of them, he judged it to be high time that they should proceed from his own hand, rather than come into public view under some very defective and erroneous form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Vol. 1 of 2 The author was the flrfl who read lectures on this fnhjeci: in the univerfity of Edinburgh. He began with reading them in aprivate character in the year 1759. In the following year he was choren prof'efi'or of rhetoric by the magiftrates and town council of Edinburgh and, in 1762, his majcfty was {leafed to erect and endow a profeflion of rhetoric and belles ettres in that univerfity and the author was appointed the flrf'c. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.