AN

ABRIDGEMENT

OF

LECTURES ON RHETORIC.

BY HUGH BLAIR, D. D.

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

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.y?

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM B. GILLEY.

Gazlay, Printer, Newburgh.

1818.

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