THE WORKS OF HUGH BLAIR, D.D. F.R.S. ED. ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE HIGH CHURCH, AND PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE AUTHOR. BY JAMES FINLAYSON, D. D. IN FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. V. LECTURES ON RHETORIC, &c. London: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES; F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN; SCATCHERD AND LETTERMAN; J. CLARKE AND CO.; J. AND A. ARCH; R. SCHOLEY; BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY; J. ASPERNE; T. HAMILTON; R. SAUNDERS ; LLOYD AND SON; AND G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER; A. CONSTABLE AND Co.; MANNERS AND MILLER ; AND FAIRBAIRN AND ANDERSON, EDINBURGH; AND G. Clark, ABERDEEN. 1820. CONTENTS XXVII. DIFFERENT Kinds of Public XXVIII. Eloquence of the Bar — Analysis of Cicero's Oration for Cluentius XXXII. Conduct of a Discourse- The Ar- XXXIII. Pronunciation, or Delivery XXXIV. Means of improving in Eloquence 243 LECTURE XXVII. DIFFERENT KINDS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING- ELOQUENCE OF POPULAR ASSEMBLIES-EXTRACTS FROM DEMOSTHENES. AFTER the preliminary views which have been given of the nature of Eloquence in general, and of the state in which it has subsisted in different ages and countries, I am now to enter on the consideration of the different kinds of Public Speaking, the distinguishing characters of each, and the rules which relate to them. The ancients divided all Orations into three kinds: the Demonstrative, the Deliberative, and the Judicial. The scope of the Demonstrative was to praise or to blame; that of the Deliberative, to advise or to dissuade; that of the Judicial, to accuse or to defend. The chief subjects of Demonstrative Eloquence, were Panegyrics, Invectives, Gratulatory and Funeral Orations. The Deliberative was employed in matters of public concern agitated in the Senate, or before the Assemblies of the People. The Judicial is the same with the Eloquence of the Bar, employed in addressing Judges, who have power to absolve or to condemn. This division runs through all the ancient Treatises on Rhetoric; and is followed |