ON RHETORIC, ABRIDGED CHIEFLY FROM Dr. BLAIR'S LECTURES ON THAT SCIENCE. The FOURTH EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS and IMPROVEMENTS. TEWKESBURY: PRINTED BY W. DYDE, FOR CROSBY AND LETTERMAN, STATIONER'S-COURT, LONDON. = ADVERTISEMENT. THE HE want of a fyftem of Rhetoric upon a concise plan, and at an eafy price, will, it is prefumed, render this little Volume not unacceptable to the public. To collect knowledge, which is fcattered over a wide extent,' into a small compafsif it has not the merit of originality, has at leaft the advantage of being ufeful. Many who are terri fied at the idea of travelling over a ponderous volume in fearch of information, will yet fet out on a fhort journey, in purfuit of science, with alacrity and profit. Thofe for whom the following Effays are principally intended, will derive a peculiar benefit from the brevity with which they are conveyed. To |