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Editor's Introduction
Editions of The Philosophy of Rhetoric
Notes to the Present Edition: Corrections and Additions
Preface
Introduction
I. Eloquence
II. Of wit, humour, and ridicule
III. The Doctrine of the preceding Chapter defended
IV. Of the relation which eloquence bears to logic and to grammar
V. Of the different sources of Evidence, and the different Subjects to which they are respectively adapted
VI. Of the Nature and Use of the scholastic art of Syllogizing
VII. Of the Consideration which the Speaker ought to have of the Hearers, as men in general
VIII. Of the Consideration which the Speaker ought to have of the Hearers, as such men in particular
IX. Of the Consideration which the Speaker ought to have of Himself
X. The different kinds of public speaking in use among the moderns compared, with a view to their different advantages in respect of eloquence
XI. Of the cause of that pleasure which we receive from objects of representations that excite pity and other painful feelings
I. The Nature and Characters of the Use which gives Law to Language
II. The nature and use of verbal Criticism, with its principal Canons
III. Of Grammaticial Purity
IV. Some Grammatical Doubts in regard to English Construction stated and examined
V. Of the qualities of Style strictly rhetorical
VI. Of Perspicuity
VII. What is the Cause that Nonsense so often escapes being detected, both by the Writer and by the Reader?
VIII. The extensive Usefulness of Perspicuity
IX. May there not be an Excess of Perspicuity?
I. Of Vivacity as depending on the Choice of Words
II. Of Vivacity as depending on the Number of the Words
III. Of Vivacity as depending on the Arrangement of the Words
IV. Of the Connectives employed in combining the Parts of a Sentence
V. Of the Connectives employed in combining the Sentences in a Discourse
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