THE

METHOD

TEACHING AND STUDYING

The

B E L L E S L E TTR ES;
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The whole illustrated with Passages from the most famous
Poets and Orators, Ancient and Modern;

Late Principal of the University of Paris, Professor of Eloquence
in the Royal College, and Member of the Royal
Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres.
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BOOK III.
O F R H E TO RIC.
ARTICLE V.

OF FIGURES, PAGE I

Figures of Words, 2

1. Of Ornament, 6

2. To heighten low and common Thoughts, ibid.

5. To soften harsh Expressions, ibid.

The Antithesis, and such-like Figures, 11

Figures of Allusion, - 15

Figures with regard to Thoughts, 18

1. To address inanimate Things, 24.

9. To give Speech to Things inanimate, ibid.

IMAGES. 33

ARTICLE VI. Of oratorial Precautions, 37

VII. Of the Passions, 44

SECT. H.I. -

OF THE ELO QUENCE OF THE BAR, 57

Anticle I. Of the Models of Eloquence pro-

perfor the Bar, 58

Ertracts from Demosthenes and Æschines, 61

Ertracts from the first Philippic of Demos-

themes w ibid.

Ettract from the second Olynthian, 62

Ertract of the Harangue concerning the

Chersonesus, - 64

From the third Philippic, 66

Ertracts of Æschines's Haralogue, 68

Ettracts of Demosthenes's Harangue for

Ctesiphon, - 72

The Success of the two Orations, 79

I. The Judgments of the Ancients on Æschi-

mes and Demosthenes, 8O

II of Cicero's E/oquence, compared with

that of Demosthenes, 86

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