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The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres: Or an Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetoric, History, Moral Philosophy, Physicks, &c. ... By Mr. Rollin, ... Translated from the French. In Four Volumes, Volume 2

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A. Betterswroth and C. Hitch, 1734 - Education

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OF RHETORIC Pag	1

Of Compofition	8

Of Themes ibid	17

The retired life of M de Lamoignon in the coun	29

The honourable reception M de Turenne	31

Of the reading and explanation of Authors	48

Of the fimple kind	54

Of the fublime	64

Of the Paffions	206

Of the Eloquence of the Bar	221

Of Ciceros Eloquence compared with that	255

How Youth may prepare themselves	273

Of the Lawyers morals	293

Of the Eloquence of the Pulpit	304

Duty of a Preacher	305

Duty of a Preacher	312

Of the mediate kind	76

General reflections on the three kinds	84

What must chiefly be obferved in reading or expounding	92

Of thoughts	106

Of the choice of words	140

of the order and difpofition of	149

EXAMPLES	155

Of Figures	161

IMAGE S	194

The being too negligent of the Ornaments of Speech	328

The learning requifite in a Chriftian Orator	347

The study of the Fathers	354

Simplicity and Grandeur	360

The beauty of the Scripture does not arise from	368

Sublime Paffages	380

The Song of Mofes after his paffage through	397

Of the manner in which a Preacher muft deliver

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Title	The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres: Or an Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetoric, History, Moral Philosophy, Physicks, &c. ... By Mr. Rollin, ... Translated from the French. In Four Volumes, Volume 2 Volume 2 of The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres, Or An Introduction to Language, Poetry, Rhetoric, History, Moral Philosophy, Physics, &c: With Reflections on Taste; and Instructions with Regard to the Eloquence of the Pulpit, the Bar and the Stage. : the Whole Illustrated with Passages from the Most Famous Poets and Orators, Ancient and Modern, with Critical Remarks on Them. : Designed More Particularly for Students in the Universities : Translated from the French : in Four Volumes, Charles Rollin The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres: Or an Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetoric, History, Moral Philosophy, Physicks, &c. ... By Mr. Rollin, ... Translated from the French. In Four Volumes, Charles Rollin
Author	Charles Rollin
Publisher	A. Betterswroth and C. Hitch, 1734
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	25 Nov 2013

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