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ELEMENTS of ORATORY

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Briefly stated, and fitted for the Practice of
The STUDIOUS YOUTH of
Great - Britain and Ireland:
In TWO BOOKS.

Alex Mitchen
The FIRST comprehending the PRINCIPLES of
that excellent Art, conformable to, and supported by the
AUTHORITY of the most accurate ORATORS and
RHETORICIANS, both Ancient and Modern, viz.
ISOCRATES,

FARNABY, ARISTOTLE,

BUTLER, CICERO,

SMITH, DIONYSIUS Halicarnal. WALKER, QUINTILIAN,

BURTON,
VOSSIUS,

BLACKW ALL,
PETRUS RAMUS, LOWE,
CYP. SOARIUS, ROLLIN,
AUD. TALÆUS, A. B. of CAMBR AY,
DU GARD,

MEŞS. de PORT-ROYAL, & Co
The WHOLE being distinguished into what is necessary to be

repeated, and what may be made only Matter of Observation. 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 demonstrate and illustrate 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, Maler of the

Publick GRAMMAR-SCHOOL, in Holt, Norfolk,

L O N D ON: Printed by A. PARKER ; and fold by A. BETTESWORTH and C. HITCH, intater-nofter-Row, and the Booksellers in Cambridge, Norwich, and Dublin.

MDCCXXXIX.

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To the WORSHIPFUL

SAMUEL SWINFIN, E/9; Warden,

Prime

With the other Worthy WARDENS of the Wor

shipful Company of FISHMONGERS,

LONDON, viz.
HUMPHREY SOUTH, Esq;
Mr. JAMES BAGWELL,
Mr. BENJAMIN JOSEPH,
Mr. JOHN NEWMAN,
Mr. JONATHAN BROMLEY,
And to the rest of the GENTLEMEN of the

Court of ASSISTANTS of the said Company;
Governours of Sir JOHN GRESHA M's
Free Grammar-School at Holt, in Norfolk :
This Treatise of RHETORIC,

OR, THE
ELEMENTS of ORATORY,
For the Compleating of YOUTH in their Gram-

matical Knowledge, and their further Instruction in the
Excellent Art of SPEAKING WELL and WRI-
TING ELEGANTLY, in their own or either of
the Learned LANGUAGES,
Is humbly Inscribed by
YOUR WORSHIPS
Faithful, Obliged, and
Most Obedient Servant,

J. HOLMES.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN IBRARIES