79. The claims of the age on the young men of America. 80. On Physiognomy. (In Hebrew.) 81. Sur la Révolution Francaise. (French.) On the French Revolution. 82. On decision of character. 83. On innovation. 84. On the restoration of Greece. 85. De institutorum Americanorum eventûs et libertatis causæ conjunc tione. (Latin.) 86. The middle ages. 87. De oraculis. (Latin.) 88. The heroic character. 89. The duties of republican citizens. 90. The duties of an American citizen. 91. On republican institutions as affecting private character. 92. On imagination as affecting individual happiness. 93. On war. 94. De Romanæ libertatis et eloquentiæ casu. The decline of Roman liberty and eloquence. 95. Views of happiness. 96. De Caii Marií ævo. (Latin.) The age of Caius Marius. 97. Skepticism. 98. De festis diebus qui nostra in Universitate celebrantur. (Latin.) 99. Modern patriotism. 100. De literis Latinis. 101. The sacrifices and recompense of literary life. 102. Quid de artibus ingenuis in civitatibus Americæ sperandum sit 103. The American literary character. 104. De Locorum in animum vi. 105. Martyrdom. 106. Socrates. (Greek.) 107. De priscorum diis. (Latin.) The ancient divinities. 108. On the reciprocal influence of genius and knowledge. 109. On the revolutionary spirit of modern times. 110. On the durability of the Federal Union. 111. Present influences on American literature. 112 The return to Palestine. 113. De Græcarum literarum studio. (Latin.) 114. De vitæ in Universitate nostra. 115. Elements of poetry and romance in America. 116. De philosophiæ studio. 117. The pride of scholarship. 118. The physical sciences. 119 The present and former condition of Greece. (Greek.) 120. De oratoribus Americanis. 121. Periodical literature. 122. De hujus temporis indole. 123. The teacher. 124. De eloquentiæ studio in scholis nostris neglecto. 125. American political influences. 126. De literarum scholis nostris. 127. The scholar's hope. 128. De rebus preteritis et presentibus. 129. Pursuit of universal truth. 130. Literæ Americanæ. 131. Revolutions of literature. 132. De linguæ Latinæ hoc tempore usu. 133. The taking of Rome by the Gauls. 134. The progress of human sentiments. 135. The political prospects of Russia. 136. The advantages of speaking in French-in Greek, &c. 137. The moral influence of science. 138. The prospects of America. 139. Literary vanity. 140. The crusades. 141. On artificial aids to memory. 142. On Phrenology. 143. On Mesmerism. 144. On the proneness of genius to theorizing. 145. On intellectual culture. 146. On the prevalence of erroneous views of the value of metaphysical science. 147. The contributions of the fine arts to the pleasures of the domestic LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS VOLUME. any In presenting a list of authorities which have been consulted in the pre paration of this volume, the author makes this general acknowledgment that, as usefulness, not originality, has been his aim, he has in some in stances copied verbatim from the pages of those in whom he has found thing of value subservient to his purpose; in some he has taken the liberty to alter the phraseology, and in others entirely to remodel the principles which he has found scattered throughout these authorities. The works to which he has been most largely indebted, are Booth's Principles of English Composition, Walker's Teacher's Asssistant, Newman's, Blair's, Whately's, and Jamieson's Rhetoric, and Jardine's Principles of English Composition. Other works from which he has gleaned something of value, or hints for the improvement of what he has elsewhere gathered, are as follow: Rippingham's Rules of English Composition; Rice's Composition; Carey's English Prosody; Roe's Elements of English Metre; Steele's Prosodia Rationalis; Crabbe's Synonymes; Harris's Hermes; Pickbourne on the English Verb; D'Israeli's Curiosities of Modern Literature; Walker's, Johnson's, Sheridan's, Richardson's, and Webster's Dictionaries; Locke's Essay on the Understanding; Watts on the Mind; Dictionary of Quota tions; Andrew's and Stoddard's, and Adam's Latin Grammars; Murray's, Brown's, Felton's, Lennie's, Parker's, and Fox's English Grammars; Hedge's Logic; Encyclopædia Americana; Dictionary of Arts and Scien ces; Towne's Analysis of Derivative Words; American First Class Book Mayo's Lessons on Objects; Miller's Practice of English Composition Lockhart's Life of Scott; Taylor's Elements of Thought; Hannam's Pulpit Assistant; Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon; The London Quarterly Journal of Education; Beauties of History; The Spectator; Inn's Rhetorical Class Book; Lallemand's Artillery Service; Beclard's Physiology; Poole's English Parnassus; The School and the School master; Bentley's Miscellany; Quarles' Books of Emblems; Knox's Essays Hay's Biography. C. INDEX OF SUBJECTS NOTICED IN THIS WORK. Apothem, Apothegm, or Apoph- Argumentative, 300. 66 Writing, example of, in a de- Asterisk, 28 and 32. Ballad, 287. Barbarism, 92. Bathos, notes, 64 and 303. Bernard De Rohan, Description of, Bianca Capello, 322. Bombast, notes, 64 and 303. "in Folio, Quarto, Octavo, Du Bookbinders' marks for folding, &c. Bourgeois, 312. Boutes, Rimes, note, 242. Bowdoin Prize Dissertation on the Brace, 28 and 31. Breve, 28 and 30. Brevier, 312. Bucolics, 289. Burlesque, 297. 66 Antistrophe, 286. Antithesis, 125. 66 Rules of, 126. "Happy instances of, in several styles, note, 297. Burletta, 297. Author of Lacon's Remarks Butterfly and Humming Bird, The, on, note, 126. Antonomasia, 63. " an Allegory, 135. much used by historical writ- Cæsura, proper position of, 234. ers, note, 65. Apheresis, 76. Apologue and Fable, 136. 66 peculiar (as a rhetorical fig- "Subjects for, 408. Compound Words, 35. "Subjects for, 405. Conjunction, and how avoided, note, Connected Narrative from Scattered Construction of Sentences, 93. "Discussion, Subjects for, 410. Cut, representing the manner in Defence of Literary Studies in Men Colon, its meaning and use, 27 and Definition, 105. when not to be used, 123. 66 Rules relating to, 123. Deliberative Discussion, 350. "Subjects for, 410. Derivation and Composition of Words, "Modes of, 36. Effect of Figurative Language Classes of, 166. Terms appropriate for, 166. Sir Walter Scott's accuracy in, note, 167. of a country, canals, 168. of climate, coasts, forests, of villages, 170. of persons, of a sensible ob of Mary, Queen of Scots, 172 66 of a beautiful woman, noti 66 173. of Bernard De Rohan, 173. Description of a fine-looking man, | Disquisition, 341. note, 174. 66 of the elephant, 175. 66 of natural scenery, 175 and te Use of Epithets in, note, 175. 46 about dogs, 12. Diction, Poetic, 77. Didactic, Introduction and 300. Diminution, or Liptotes, note, 142. 66 for the Division of a Subject, 215. แ 66 345. a Literary, on "The merits of a Deliberative, on Liberal "Subjects for, 408 and 410. "Philosophical and Forensic, 359. 66 how it differs from a Diss ar "Ethical, political, scientific, "Ethical, Example of, on "The Dissertation, 338. Example of, on "The Causes "Bowdoin Prize, on _the_Life 66 Divisions of a Subject, 215. 66 Rules for the construction of "Public Opinion," 371. 66 how divided, 231. |