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  • Outlines of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres

    Document thumbnail: Outlines of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres
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    1854 copyrighted text. Author is credited with an M.A. and as the author of The Poets and Poetry of the Ancient Greeks. Preface credits influence of Longinus and Quintilian by way of Blair. Covers principles of taste and origin of language up to the epic and dramatic forms. Makes a (new?) distinction between rhetoric and belles-lettres. The first chapter on language covers: origin and progress of language, origin and progress of writing, structure of language (in two parts). Chapter two (style) covers: perspicuity and precision and structure of sentences (in three parts). Chapter three (figurative language) covers: origin and nature of figurative language, metaphor, hyperbole, comparison—antithesis—interrogation—etc., and general character of style. Chapter four (components of a regular discourse) covers: introduction—division—narration, argument—pathos—peroration, pronunciation and delivery. Chapter five is beauty and sublimity. Chapter six eloquence. Chapter seven different kinds of public speaking. Chapter eight poetry. Schultz Archive copy contains preface, TOC, the first chapter on taste, and the section on historical, epistolary, and fictitious writing from chapter seven.
    Creator/Author:
    Mills, Abraham, 1796-1867
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/30/2020
    Date Created:
    1854
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Art of Rhetoric Made Easy: Or, The Elements of Oratory

    Document thumbnail: Art of Rhetoric Made Easy: Or, The Elements of Oratory
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    Handwritten date of 1739 appears on the cover page. The author is credited as Master of the Publick Grammar-School in Holt, Norfolk. The title page states the text is: Briefly stated, and fitted to the practice of the studious youth of Great-Brian and Ireland: in two books. The first comprehending the principles of that excellent art, conformable to, and supported the authority of the most accurate orators and rhetoricians, both ancient and modern: Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero, Dionysisus Halicarnass, Quintilian, Vossius, Petrus Ramus, Cyp Sarius, Aud. Talaeus, Dugard; Farnaby, Buter, Smith, Walker, Burton, Blackwell, Lowe, Rollin, A.B of Cambray, Mess de Port-Royal. The whole being distinguished into what is necessary to be repeated, and what may be made only matter of observation. The second contain the substance of Longinu's celebrated treatise on the sublime. In both which all technical terms are fully explained with their derivations, and proper examples applied to demonstrate and illustrate all the topres, figures, and fine turns, that are to be met with, or imitated, either in the scriptures, classics, or other polite writings as well oratorial as poetical. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the first twenty-nine pages. The copies vary in quality and readability.
    Creator/Author:
    Holmes, John, 1703-1759
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/28/2020
    Date Created:
    1739
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    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Princeton Text Book in Rhetoric

    Document thumbnail: The Princeton Text Book in Rhetoric
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    1859 printing. The author is credited as a doctor of divinity and as Professor of Belles Lettres and Political Economy in the College of New Jersey. A printed but unpublished textbook for use by the author's own pupils. Based on classroom experience using Whately's Rhetoric. Aims to provide mental discipline through recitations. While it is meant to serve in place of Whately's text, it is meant to be used with Theremin's text. Part one covers rhetorical process, classification of arguments, and arrangement of arguments. Part two covers persuasion. Part three covers constructive rhetoric: discourse and style. Part four covers elocution. The Schultz Archive copy only includes the preface and TOC.
    Creator/Author:
    Hope, Matthew B. (Matthew Boyd), 1812-1859
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/28/2020
    Date Created:
    1859
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    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: In Three Volumes: Vol. 1

    Document thumbnail: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: In Three Volumes: Vol. 1
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    A copy of the second, corrected edition, dated 1885. The author is one of the ministers of the High Church and Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh. A collection of lectures from twenty-four years of Blair's instruction. Blair claims that he has only published these lectures as a result of their circulation in uncertain forms without his consent. The lectures cover taste, genius, the sublime, beauty and other pleasures, the rise and progress of language, structure of language and the English tongue, perspicuity and precision, structure of sentences, harmony of structure, figurative language, and figures of speech.The Schultz Archive only includes a few excerpted lectures from the various volumes. The quality of the text in the collection is good.
    Creator/Author:
    Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/04/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/04/2019
    Date Created:
    1785
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    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • A System of Rhetoric

    Document thumbnail: A System of Rhetoric
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    No information on the printing or edition is given. The copyright is 1884. No information on the author is given. The book emphasizes adaptation as the fundamental law of rhetoric and the effects produced "at the time and under the circumstances." Conversation and letter writing are to be used to develop in the student rhetoric's important laws. Personal experience is seen as the basis for students learning narration and description. Illustrations are used throughout, particularly anecdotes and quotations from leading authors. The author specifically acknowledges _The Art of Extempore Speech_ by M. Bautain and _The Art of Reading_ by M. Legouve as influences. The sections are Sentence Making, Conversation, Letter-Writing, the Essay, the Oration, and Poetry. The chapter on conversation focuses on sociability, beginning with a chapter on "Good Breeding." The chapter on the essay is quite alliterative, its chapters: preparation, invention, style, purity, propriety, precision, perspictuity, power, perfection, and (most interestingly) preparation for the press. The Schultz Archive includes a large portion of the text; however, it is missing part I and pages 152-69, 256-303, and 504-end (Part V on oration and Part VI Poetry). The scans are good quality, but there is some highlighter that obscures text throughout.
    Creator/Author:
    Bardeen, C. W. (Charles William), 1847-1924
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/04/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/04/2019
    Date Created:
    1884
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    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • A Compendious System of Rhetoric: Arranged in a Catechetical Form; and Abstracted from Blair, Holmes, Stirling, &c. and the Best Authors on that Art

    Document thumbnail: A Compendious System of Rhetoric: Arranged in a Catechetical Form; and Abstracted from Blair, Holmes, Stirling, &c. and the Best Authors on that Art
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    1809 printing. The author is credited with a Master of Arts degree and as Principal of Baltimore College. This text is written in a question and answer form for the benefit of both students and instructors. Rhetoric is defined to be the quintessence of all that is excellent in Belle Lettres and classical and literary composition. The topics covered include taste, criticism, genius, sublimity, beauty, novelty, imitation, style, sentence structure, harmony, figurative language, kinds of poetry, characters of prose, classical argument, and Stirling's definitions of tropes and figures of rhetoric. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Knox, Samuel, 1755 or 1756-1832
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/20/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/30/2020
    Date Created:
    1809
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  • Elements of the Art of Rhetoric: Adapted for use in Colleges and Academies, and also, for Private Study

    Document thumbnail: Elements of the Art of Rhetoric: Adapted for use in Colleges and Academies, and also, for Private Study
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    1850 printing of the 1850 copyrighted text. This text professes to elevate invention to the first rank in rhetorical instruction. It credits Whately as the only other recent author not to excluded invention, but states that he does so more narrowly than this work shall do. Secondly, it attempts to reduce of the principles of rhetoric to a more exact system,. The art of rhetoric is philosophically distinguishable from logic, grammar, aesthetics, poetry, and elocution, and it is not limited, as it is in Whately, to argumentation. Day argues that explanation and persuasion are large parts of rhetoric and distinguishable from argumentation. and the treatment of rhetoric as an art rather than a science. Thirdly, an emphasis on the practice of rhetoric as an art, and not merely a science, has resulted in the prescription of numerous exercises, and the inclusion of an appendix of themes for composition. The preface credits the influence of German writers Schott, Hoffmann, Richter, Eschenburg, Theremin, and Becker. The text it is divided into two parts: invention and style. Invention is further divided into explanation, confirmation, excitation, and persuasion. Style is divided into absolute properties, subjective properties, and objective properties. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Day, Henry Noble, 1808-1890
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/18/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/11/2019
    Date Created:
    1850
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  • The Art of Discourse: A System of Discourse Adapted for use in Colleges and Academies, and also for Private Study

    Document thumbnail: The Art of Discourse: A System of Discourse Adapted for use in Colleges and Academies, and also for Private Study
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    1867 printing of the 1867 copyrighted work: a reconstruction of Elements of the Art of Rhetoric (1850). The author is credited as the author of books on logic, grammar, composition, and rhetorical praxis. The preface states Elements of the Art of Rhetoric was distinct for elevating invention to the first rank in rhetorical instruction, reduction of the principles of rhetoric to a more exact system, and the treatment of rhetoric as an art rather than a science. This text made changes to make stronger relations between rhetoric and logic and aesthetics, fuller develop the processes of explanation, and the more exact classification of style. A treatise and textbook on rhetoric, it is divided into two parts: invention and style. Invention is further divided into explanation, confirmation, excitation, and persuasion. Style is divided into absolute properties, subjective properties, and objective properties. Discourse is discussed as oratory, epistolary composition, poetry, representative discourse, judicial, deliberative and sacred. Exercises are used throughout. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Day, Henry Noble, 1808-1890
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/18/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/11/2019
    Date Created:
    1867
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  • English Composition and Rhetoric: Enlarged Edition: Part First: Intellectual Elements of Style

    Document thumbnail: English Composition and Rhetoric: Enlarged Edition: Part First: Intellectual Elements of Style
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    1887 printing of the enlarged edition of the first part of Bain's English Composition and Rhetoric. Alexander Bain is a Doctor of Laws of English and Emeritus Professor of Logic in the University of Aberdeen.The first part, Intellectual Elements of Style (included here), is focused on "Elements of Style that concern the understanding." The second part is about the "emotional qualities." This "re-modeling" is designed to narrow the scope and devote more attention to certain portions chosen for their utility. Its topics are order of words; number of words; the sentence; the paragraph; figures of speech; and the qualities of style: clearness, simplicity, impressiveness, and picturesqueness. Bain states that these topics are expounded, exemplified, and applied to the arts of criticism and composition. Bain has somewhat reordered the contents that was previously sectioned under the kinds of composition (description, narration, exposition, oratory). The Schultz Archive copy is the complete text of part first of the enlarged edition.
    Creator/Author:
    Bain, Alexander, 1818-1903
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/04/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/03/2019
    Date Created:
    1887
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    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • English Composition and Rhetoric: A Manual

    Document thumbnail: English Composition and Rhetoric: A Manual
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    1884 printing of the revised American edition of Bain's rhetorical manual focused on style, structure, and modes. The copyright page states it was registered in 1866. Alexander Bain had a Master of Arts and was Professor of Logic in the University of Aberdeen. It states an interest in methodizing instruction in english composition, stating that little can be done to cultivate students' fund of expression, but that they can be taught to discriminate between good and bad expression. Rhetoric is defined as "the means whereby language, spoken or written, may be rendered effective." The text is divided into two parts. Part one deals with composition in general, particularly figures of speech, qualities of style, the sentence, and the paragraph. Part two deal with five kinds or modes of composition: description, narration (historical composition), exposition (science), oratory (persuasion), and poetry. Its rules and principles are accompanied with examples from canonical texts. It also includes analyzed extracts in its appendix. Although it has not been digitzed, the Schultz Archive's hardcopy is the complete text. It is identical to the 1887 printing (that is digitzed), excepting paratextual advertisements.
    Creator/Author:
    Bain, Alexander, 1818-1903
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/04/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/03/2019
    Date Created:
    1884
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    Public Domain Mark 1.0