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The Nature and Foundations of
Eloquence.
CHAP. I. Eloquence in the largest acceptation de-
fined, its more general Forms exhibited, with their
different Objects, Ends and Characters.
CHAP. II. Of Wit, Humour, and Ridicule.
SECT. I. Of wit.
SECT. II. Of humour.
SECT. III. Of ridicule.
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CHAP. III. The Doctrine of the preceding Chapter
defended.
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SECT. I. Ariftotle's account of the ridiculous
explained.
SECT. II. Hobbes's account of laughter examined.
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CHAP. IV. Of the Relation which Eloquence bears
to Logic and to Grammar.
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CHAP.
CHAP. V. Of the different Sources of Evidence,
and the different Subjects to which they are re-
Speclively adapted.
SECT. I.
Of intuitive evidence.
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ib.
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SECT. II. Of deductive evidence.
Part I. Divifion of the fubject into Scientific
and moral, with the principal diftinctions be-
tween them.
Part II. The nature and origin of experience.
CHAP. VI. Of the Nature and Use of the fcholaftic
Art of fyllogizing.
CHAP. VII. Of the Confideration which the Speaker
ought to have of the Hearers as Men in general. 186
SECT. I. As endowed with understanding.
SECT. II. As endowed with imagination.
SECT. III. As endowed with memory.
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SECT. IV. As endowed with paffions.
SECT. VI. Other paffions as well as moral fenti-
ments useful auxiliaries.
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SECT. VII. How an unfavourable passion must be
calmed.
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CHAP. VIII. Of the Confideration which the
Speaker ought to have of the Hearers as fuch Men
in particular.
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CHAP. IX. Of the confideration 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,
SECT. I. In regard to the fpeaker.
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SECT. II. In regard to the perfons addressed. 253
SECT. III. In regard to the fubject.
SECT. IV. In regard to the occafion.
SECT. V. In regard to the end in view.
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CHAP. XI. Of the caufe of that pleasure which we
receive from objects or reprefentations that excite
pity and other painful feelings.
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SECT. I. The different folutions hitherto given by
philofophers, examined.
Part I. The first bypothefis.
Part IV. The fourth hypothefis.
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SECT. II. The Author's hypothefis on this fubject.
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BOOK II.
The Foundations and effential Properties
of Elocution.
CHAP. I. The Nature and Characters of the Ufe
which gives Law to Language.
SECT. I. Reputable use.
SECT. II.
National use.
SECT. III. Prefent use.
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CHAP. II. The nature and ufe of verbal criticism,
with its principal canons.
367
SECT. I. Good ufe not always uniform in her de-
SECT. II. Every thing favoured by good ufe, not
on that account worthy to be retained. Page 387
Canon the fixth.
Canon the feventh.
Canon the eighth.
Canon the ninth.
CHAP. III. Of grammatical purity.
SECT. I. The barbarifm.
Part I.
By the use of obfolete words.
Part II. By the use of new words.
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Part III. By the use of good words new-mo-
delled.
SECT. II. The folecifm.
SECT. III. The Impropriety.
Part I. Impropriety in fingle words.
Part II. Impropriety in phrafes.
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CHAP. IV. Some grammatical doubts in regard to
English conftruction ftated and examined.
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