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THE
ELOCUTIONIST:
A COLLECTION OF
PIECES IN PROSE AND VERSE,
PECULIARLY ADAPTED TO DISPLAY THE ART OF READING, IN THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SENSE OF THE TERM ;
PRECEDED BY AN INTRODUCTION ON THE
PRINCIPLES OF
ELOCUTION.
BY
JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES,
AUTHOR OF THE TRAGEDY OF "VIRGINIUS," ETC.
PARTS OF SENTENCES.
RULE I.-Complete and Independent Sense .
II.-Negative Sentences
III. Introductory Parts of a Sentence
Exception to the First and Third Rule
INTERROGATION.
IV. Questions asked by Pronouns and Adverbs
V.-Questions asked by Verbs
VI.-Questions put disjunctively
Exemplification of the Three preceding Rules
Exceptions
PARENTHESIS.
VII.-How the Parenthesis should be pronounced
Exception
SERIES.
VIII.-COMP. SERIES-Commencing and Concluding
IX.-SIMPLE SERIES-Commencing and Concluding
Numerical Table of the Simple Series
HARMONIC INFLECTION.
Observations and Examples
EXCLAMATION.
X.-A Word repeated in form of an Exclamation
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ACCENT.
XI.-Words the same, in Part of their Formation
EMPHASIS.
XII.-Emphatic Phrase
RHETORICAL DIVISION OF WORDS.
Of Words-emphatic, accented, and unaccented
Of Emphasis-absolute and relative
RHETORICAL PUNCTUATION.
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PROMISCUOUS SELECTIONS IN PROSE.
On Study
On the Love of Life
On Grieving for the Dead
On Remorse
Discontent, the Common Lot of all Mankind
On the Sublime in Writing
Reflections in Westminster Abbey
Virtue, Man's Highest Interest
The Monk.
On Military Glory
Liberty and Slavery
Reyno and Alpin
Story of the Siege of Calais
On Living to One's-Self.
Comal and Galvina
On the Psalms
Anningait and Ajut
On the Pleasure of Painting
Damon and Pythias
On the Abuse of Genius, with reference to the
Works of Lord Byron.
Harley's Death
Advantages of uniting Gentleness of Manners,
with Firmness of Mind
Chesterfield, 40
The Elder's Death-bed
Wilson, 42
On Lord Byron's Lines upon the Field of Waterloo
Knowles, 45
The Perfect Orator.
Sheridan, 46
Lord Byron considered as a Moralist, and a Poet
Knowles, 47
Story of Le Fevre
Sterne, 48
The Distressed Father
Mornings at Bow-street, 56
On Shakspeare
Hazlitt, 58
Character of Napoleon Bonaparte
Channing, 62
The Indian Jugglers
On Milton
Wit injures Eloquence
On the Dignity of Human Nature
The Hill of Science
The Planetary and Terrestrial Worlds
Hazlitt, 65
Channing, 67
Maury, 71
Channing, 72
Aikin's Miscellanies, 73
Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of Others
An Exhortation to the Study of Eloquence
On the Cultivation of the Intellectual Powers
The Falling Leaf
Happiness
Cicero, 78
Tayler, 79
Anonymous, 81
Ibid. 82
Blackwood's Magazine, 83
PULPIT ELOQUENCE.
The Departed Spirits of the Just are Spectators of
our Conduct on Earth
Time and Manner of the Arrival of Death.
Finlayson, 85
Logan, 86
On the Threatened Invasion in 1803
The Christian Mother
Christ our Consolation and Relief, under the Ap-
prehension of being Separated by Death from
those we Love
Infatuation of Mankind, with regard to the Things
of Time
Danger of Delay, in Matters of Religion
On the Death of the Princess Charlotte
Sitting in the Chair of the Scorner
The Plurality of Worlds not an Argument against
the Truth of Revelation
Christ's Agony
The Deluding Influence of the World'
There is no Peace to the Wicked
On the Importance of an Interest in the Divine
Favour
The Melancholy Effects of Early Licentiousness
(in a Sermon preached for the Female Orphan
House)
Religion the distinguishing Quality of our Nature
On the Internal Proofs of the Christian Religion
On Temper
Character of Ruth
The Union of Friendship with Religion Recom-
mended
On the Education of Females
Exhortation to Youth to cultivate a Devotional
Kirwan, 113
Logan, 114
Channing, 115
Montgomery, 118
Fox, 121
Hutton, 123
Montgomery, 127
ANCIENT AND MODERN ORATORY.
Hannibal to his Soldiers
Speech of Lord Chatham, in the House of Peers,
against the American War, and against em-
ploying the Indians in it
Cicero against Verres
Invective against Hastings
Cicero for Milo
Lord Chatham's Reply to Sir Robert Walpole
Caius Marius to the Romans
Demosthenes to the Athenians, exciting them to
prosecute the War against Philip
Curran for Hamilton Rowan
Beginning of the First Philippic of Demosthenes
The first Oration of Cicero against Cataline
An Extract from Mr. Brougham's Speech on Ne-
gro Slavery
Peroration to Sheridan's Invective against War-
ren Hastings
Panegyric on the Eloquence of Sheridan