AUTHOR OF LECTURES ON RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES, ETC. ETC. etc.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

82 CLIFF STREET.

1851.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
SHELDON FUND
JULY 10, 1940

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY

JAN 9 196

TO

HON. THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN,

LATE

Chancellor of the Aniversity

OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK,

NOW

PRESIDENT OF RUTGER'S COLLEGE,

NEW JERSEY,

THESE VOLUMES

ARE, AS A MARK OF GREAT RESPECT,

INSCRIBED,

BY THE AUTHOR.