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A System of Oratory, Delivered in a Course of Lectures Publicly Read at Gresham College, London
A System of Oratory Delivered in a Course of Lectures Publicly Read at Gresham College London Author:John Ward Subtitle: To Which Is Prefixed an Inaugural Oration, Spoken in Latin, Before the Commencement of the Lectures, According to the Usual Custom General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1759 Original Publisher: Printed for John Ward Description: Latin oration titled: Oratorio, quam in Collegio Greshamensi, cum rhetorices p... more »rælegendæ provinciam illic suscepit, publice habuit. Subjects: Oratory Speeches, addresses, etc English language Latin language Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LECTURE XXXIII. Of Figures of Sentences fuited to move the Paffions. AVING in my laft difcourfe treatedL EC T. upon thofe Figures, which are more - ' ' frequently ufed in reafoni. ng, I mall now enter upon the confideration of others, which are more peculiarly adapted to move, and influence the paffions. There are fix of thefe, which at pre- fent I fhall endeavour to explain, namely, Epanorthojis, Paralepjis, Parrhejia, Apa- rithmejis, Exerga/ia, and Hypotypofa. Epanorthosis, or Correction, is a Figure, by which the fpeaker either recalls or amends what he had lafl faid. It is ufed different ways. For fometimes one or more words are recalled by him, and others fubjoined in their room. At other times, without recalling what has been faid, fomething elfe is fubfHtuted as more fuita'ble. This is a very extenfive Figure, and made ufe of in addreffing to different paffions. We have an inftance of it in Terence's Self-tormentor, where the old man, whofe extraordinary concern for L E c T. the abfence of his fon gave occafion to the XXXIII y -j name of the play, thus bewails his condition to his neighbour: / have an only fon, Chremes. Alas ! did I fay, that I have ? I. had indeed : but it is now uncer...« less