The Principles of Eloquence: Adapted to the Pulpit and the Bar

T. Mason and G. Lane, 1837 - Elocution - 266 pages

PRINCIPLES OF ELOQUENCE	5

Design of this Discourse	15

Of the Means of persuading a large As sembly	17

Advantages of an Orators studying himself	19

Of Rhetorical Composition	20

Of the Plan of a Discourse	23

Of Plans drawn from the Text	28

Of the Progression of the Plan	30

Of Egotism of Style	157

Of Bourdaloue	163

Of Massillon	165

Of Saurin	169

Richardson Bo lingbroke Fox Boyles Lecture Clarke	176

Of Tillotson	188

Of Barrow Young Maddox c State of Pulpit Eloquence among the English	197

Of M Thomas and the Revolution he effected in the Style of Rhetorical Composition	203

Of the Use of the Holy Scriptures	206

Of the Fathers of the Church	212

Of Quotations from Profane Authors	217

Of the Study of a Preacher	218

Of Pathos	221

Of the Pathos of Fenelon	223

Bourdaloue Flavian Las Casas Cheminais Ken Grosvenor Sterne c	225

Of the Peroration	233

Of Memory	236

Of the Action of an Orator	241

Of Motives to excite the Emulation of Christian Orators	247

CONCERNING PRONUNCIATION AND GESTURE SECT I How we may speak so as to be heard without Difficulty and with Pleasure	251

General Rules for the Variation of the Voice	256

Particular Rules for varying the Voice	257

Of Gesture	261

Title	The Principles of Eloquence: Adapted to the Pulpit and the Bar
Author	Jean Siffrein Maury
Translated by	John Neal Lake
Publisher	T. Mason and G. Lane, 1837
Original from	Indiana University
Digitized	21 Jun 2011
Length	266 pages

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Of the Injury Wit does to Eloquence	32

Of the Exordium	36

Of the Explication of the Subject	39

Of the Production of Ideas	41

Of the Eloquence of the Bar	46

Of Cicero	51

Of Demosthenes	55

Of Bossuet	64

Of Interrogation	71

Of the Eloquence of Bridaine	76

Page	77

Of the Choice of Subjects	82

Of Panegyrics	86

Of Vincent de Paul	92

Of describing Characters	98

Of Compliments	100

Of a direct Address and Rhetorical Dia logue	104

Of an Ardent Style	109

Of Epithets	114

Of the Necessity of an Orators refining his Style	116

Of a proper Selection of Words	118

Of Metaphors	122

Of Transitions	131

Of a copious Style 135	135