Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- BOOK I The Nature and Foundations of Eloquence
- CHAP. I Eloquence in the largest acceptation defined, its more general Forms exhibited, with their different Objects, Ends and Characters
- CHAP. II Of Wit, Humour, and Ridicule
- CHAP. III The Doctrine of the preceding Chapter defended
- CHAP. IV Of the Relation which Eloquence bears to Logic and to Grammar
- CHAP. V Of the different Sources of Evidence and the different Subjects to which they are respectively adapted
- CHAP. VI Of the Nature and Use of the scholastic Art of syllogizing
- CHAP. VII Of the Consideration which the Speaker ought to have of the Hearers as Men in general
- CHAP. VIII Of the Consideration which the Speaker ought to have of the Hearers as such Men in particular
- CHAP. IX Of the consideration which the Speaker ought to have of himself
- CHAP. X The different kinds of public speaking in use among the moderns, compared, with a view to their different advantages in respect of eloquence
- CHAP. XI Of the cause of that pleasure which we receive from objects or representations that excite pity and other painful feelings
- BOOK II The Foundations and essential Properties of Elocution
- ERRATA
CHAP. VI - Of the Nature and Use of the scholastic Art of syllogizing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- BOOK I The Nature and Foundations of Eloquence
- CHAP. I Eloquence in the largest acceptation defined, its more general Forms exhibited, with their different Objects, Ends and Characters
- CHAP. II Of Wit, Humour, and Ridicule
- CHAP. III The Doctrine of the preceding Chapter defended
- CHAP. IV Of the Relation which Eloquence bears to Logic and to Grammar
- CHAP. V Of the different Sources of Evidence and the different Subjects to which they are respectively adapted
- CHAP. VI Of the Nature and Use of the scholastic Art of syllogizing
- CHAP. VII Of the Consideration which the Speaker ought to have of the Hearers as Men in general
- CHAP. VIII Of the Consideration which the Speaker ought to have of the Hearers as such Men in particular
- CHAP. IX Of the consideration which the Speaker ought to have of himself
- CHAP. X The different kinds of public speaking in use among the moderns, compared, with a view to their different advantages in respect of eloquence
- CHAP. XI Of the cause of that pleasure which we receive from objects or representations that excite pity and other painful feelings
- BOOK II The Foundations and essential Properties of Elocution
- ERRATA
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- The Philosophy of Rhetoric , pp. 163 - 185Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013