MADE EASY:

OR, THE

ELEMENTS of ORATORY

Briefly stated, and fitted for the Practice of

The STUDIOUS YOUTH of Great - Britain and Ireland:

3044

1760

♥ In TWO BOOKS. Alex. Mitche

The FIRST comprehending the PRINCIPLES of
that excellent ART, conformable to, and fupported by the
AUTHORITY of the moft accurate ORATORS and
RHETORICIANS, both ANCIENT and MODERN, viz.

ISOCRATES,
ARISTOTLE,
CICERO,

DIONYSIUS Halicarnaff.

QUINTILIAN,
VOSSIUS,

PETRUS RAMUS,'
CY P. SOARIUS,
AUD. TALÆUS,
DUGARD,

FARNABY,

BUTLER,

SMITH,

WALKER,

BURTON,

BLACKWALL,

LOWE,

ROLLIN,

A. B. of CAMBRAY,
MESS. de PORT-ROYAL, &c.

The WHOLE being distinguished into what is neceflary to be repeated, and what may be made only Matter of Obfervation. The SECOND containing the SUBSTANCE of LONGINUS's celebrated TREATISE on the SUBLIME. In BOTH which all Technical Terms are fully explained, with their Derivations, and proper Examples applied to demonftrate and illuftrate all the TROPES, 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.

By JOHN HOLMES, Maier of the
Publick GRAMMAR SCHOOL, in Holt, Norfolk,

LONDON:

Printed by A. PARKER ; and fold by A. BETTESWORTH and C. HITCH, inPater-nofter-Row, and the Bookfellers in Cambridge, Norwich, and Dublin. MDCCXXXIX.

808 H75

To the WORSHIPFUL

S Prime

SAMUEL SWINFIN, Efq;Warden,

With the other Worthy WARDENS of the Worshipful Company of FISHMONGERS, LONDON, viz.

HUMPHREY SOUTH, Efq;
Mr. JAMES BAGWELL,
Mr. BENJAMIN JOSEPH,
Mr. JOHN NEWMAN,
Mr. JONATHAN BROMLEY,

And to the reft of the GENTLEMEN of the
Court of ASSISTANTS of the faid Company;
Governours of Sir JOHN GRESHAM's
Free Grammar-School at Holt, in Norfolk:

This Treatife of RHETORIC,

OR, THE

ELEMENTS of ORATORY,

For the Compleating of YOUTH in their Grammatical Knowledge, and their further Inftruction in the Excellent Art of SPEAKING WELL and WRITING ELEGANTLY, in their own or either of the Learned LANGUAGES,

Is humbly Infcribed by

YOUR WORSHIPS
Faithful, Obliged, and

Moft Obedient Servant,

J. HOLMES.