Seft. 1885

COMPLETE RHETORIC

BY

ALFRED H. WELSH, A.M.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND ENGLISH IN THE OHIO STATE UNIVER-
SITY; AUTHOR OF DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND

LANGUAGE, ESSENTIALS OF GEOMETRY, ESSEN-

TIALS OF ENGLISH, ETC.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed, and argument put in order.—
JEREMY COLLIER

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches
most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not
content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on
which they grew. - BURKE

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY

CHICAGO

S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY

CN

DEDICATED

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GOVERNOR CHARLES FOSTER

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.- CowLEY