ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE HIGH CHURCH, AND
PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

CONTENTS

OF THЕ

THIRD VOLUME.

LECT.

XXXIV.

MEANS of Improving in Eloquence.

XXXV. Comparative Merit of the Ancients and the

Moderns Hiftorical Writing,

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I

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XXXVI. Historical Writing.

XXXVI. Philofophical Writing

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Dialogue

Epiftolary Writing-Fictitious Hiftory.

XXXVIII. Nature of Poetry Its Origin and Pro-

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