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136. The advantages of speaking in French-in Greek, &c.

137. The moral influence of science.

138. The prospects of America.

139. Literary vanity.

140. The crusades.

141. On artificial aids to memory.

142. On Phrenology.

143. On Mesmerism.

144. On the proneness of genius to theorizing.

145. On intellectual culture.

146. On the prevalence of erroneous views of the value of metaphysical

science.

147. The contributions of the fine arts to the pleasures of the domestic

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LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF
THIS VOLUME.

In presenting a list of authorities which have been consulted in the pre
paration of this volume, the author makes this general acknowledgment
that, as usefulness, not originality, has been his aim, he has in some in
stances copied verbatim from the pages of those in whom he has found any
thing of value subservient to his purpose; in some he has taken the liberty
to alter the phraseology, and in others entirely to remodel the principles
which he has found scattered throughout these authorities. The works to
which he has been most largely indebted, are Booth's Principles of English
Composition, Walker's Teacher's Asssistant, Newman's, Blair's, Whately's,
and Jamieson's Rhetoric, and Jardine's Principles of English Composition.
Other works from which he has gleaned something of value, or hints for
the improvement of what he has elsewhere gathered, are as follow:

Rippingham's Rules of English_Composition; Rice's Composition;
Carey's English Prosody; Roe's Elements of English Metre; Steele's
Prosodia Rationalis; Crabbe's Synonymes; Harris's Hermes; Pickbourne on
the English Verb; D'Israeli's Curiosities of Modern Literature; Walker's,
Johnson's, Sheridan's, Richardson's, and Webster's Dictionaries; Locke's
Essay on the Understanding; Watts on the Mind; Dictionary of Quota
tions; Andrew's and Stoddard's, and Adam's Latin Grammars; Murray's,
Brown's, Felton's, Lennie's, Parker's, and Fox's English Grammars;
Hedge's Logic; Encyclopædia Americana; Dictionary of Arts and Scien
ces; Towne's Analysis of Derivative Words; American First Class Book
Mayo's Lessons on Objects; Miller's Practice of English Composition
Lockhart's Life of Scott; Taylor's Elements of Thought; Hannam's Pulpit
Assistant; Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon; The London
Quarterly Journal of Education; Beauties of History; The Spectator;
Inn's Rhetorical Class Book; Lallemand's Artillery Service; Beclard's
Physiology; Poole's English Parnassus; The School and the School
master; Bentley's Miscellany; Quarles' Books of Emblems; Knox's Essays
Hay's Biography.

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66 Rules of, 126.

Apothem, Apothegm, or Apoph-
thegm, 300.

Argumentative, 300.

Writing, example of, in a de-
fence of Literary Studies

in Men of Business, 223.

Asterisk, 28 and 32.

Ballad, 287.

Barbarism, 92.

Bathos, notes, 64 and 303.
Beauty in Writing, 104.

Bernard De Rohan, Description of
173.

Bianca Capello, 322.
Biographical Sketch, 322.
Black Eyes and Blue, 287.
Blank Verse, 241.

Bombast, notes, 64 and 303.
Books, Technical Terms relating to,
313.

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in Folio, Quarto, Octavo, Du
odecimo, &c., 313.

Bookbinders' marks for folding, &c.

313.

Bourgeois, 312.

Boutes, Rimes, note, 242.

Bowdoin Prize Dissertation on the
Literary Character of Dr. Samue.
Johnson, 381.

Brace, 28 and 31.

Brackets, 27 and 30.

Breve, 28 and 30.

Brevier, 312.

Bucolics, 289.

Burlesque, 297.

"Happy instances of, in severa

styles, note, 297.

Burletta, 297.

an Allegory, 135.

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Author of Lacon's Remarks Butterfly and Humming Bird, The,

on, note, 126.

Antonomasia, 63.

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much used by historical writ- Casura, proper position of, 234.

ers, note, 65.

Apheresis, 76.
Apologue and Fable, 136.
Apostrophe, 28, 30, 77, 143.

peculiar (as a rhetorical fig-
ure) to Poetry and Oratory,

144.

Cantata, 287.

Canzonet, 287.

Capital Letters, Rules for the Use of,
25.

Cards - Ceremonious, Business, and
Wedding,- forms of, 195, 196, 197
Caret, 28 and 32.

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Example of a, 327.

"Subjects for, 408.

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Colon, its meaning and use, 27 and Definition, 105.

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Compound Sentences, formation of

from Simple ones, 58.

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Description of a fine-looking man, | Disquisition, 341.

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note, 174.

of the elephant, 175.

แ of natural scenery, 175 and

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176.

Use of Epithets in, note, 175.
Descriptive, Introduction and 300.
"Poetry, instances of, 299.
Dialogue (simple), 7 and 324.
about dogs, 12.

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Diction, Poetic, 77.

Didactic, Introduction and 300.
Poetry, instances of, 299.

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Diæresis, 27, 31, and 77.

Diamond Type, 312.

Difference, 105.

Diminution, or Liptotes, note, 142.
Directions, Grammatical, 88.

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for the Division of a Subject,
215.

"for acquiring a Good Style,

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how it differs from a Disser
tation, 341.

"Ethical, political, scientific,
and literary, 342.

"Ethical, Example of, on "The
strict application of Moral
Rules to the Policy of
States," 342.

Dissertation, 338.

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Example of, on "The Causes
which, independently of
their Merit, have contrib
uted to elevate the Ancient
Classics," 381.

Bowdoin Prize, on the Life
and Character of Dr. John
son, 381.
Subjects for, 414.
Distich, or Couplet, 230.
Distinction, 105.

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Divisions of a Subject, 215.
of a Sermon, 392.
Double Pica, note, 312.
Drama, 296.

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Rules for the construction o
the, 296.
Dramatic Composition, kinds of, 296
Dramatic Poetry, 294.
Duet, note, 287.
Duodecimo, 313.

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Epopea, or Epopœia, 296.

what kinds most frequently
used, 231.
Secondary, 231.

Figurative Language, 111 and 283.
and Plain, difference between.

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113.

translation of Plain into, 115

Figure, Definition of a, 111.

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Etymological, Syntactical and
Rhetorical, 111.

Figures, as enumerated by Holmes,

note, 111.

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Use of, 112.

Faults of, note, 112.

Folding of a Letter, 188 and 189.

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of Notes, &c., 194.

Folio, 313.
Forensic Disputation, 355.
Example of a, 355.
Subjects for, 409.

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Form of a Letter, 186.

Esquire, title of, when to be applied, Formal Letter, Example of a, 188.

191.

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