The Principles of Eloquence

B. Waugh and T. Mason, 1833 - Elocution - 198 pages

Design of this Discourse Page	13

Of the Means of persuading a large Assembly	14

Advantages of an orators studying himself	16

Of Rhetorical Composition	17

Of the Plan of a Discourse	19

Of Plans drawn from the Text	22

Of the Progression of the Plan	24

Of the Injury Wit does to Eloquence	26

Of Egotism of Style	118

Of Bourdaloue	122

Of Massillon	124

Of Saurin	126

Richardson Bolingbroke Fox Boyles Lecture Clarke	132

Of Tillotson	141

Of Barrow Young Maddox c State of Pulpit Eloquence among the English	147

Of M Thomas and the Revolution he effected in the Style of Rhetorical Composition	152

Of the Use of the Holy Scriptures	154

Of the Fathers of the Church	159

Of Quotations from Profane Authors	162

Of the Study of a Preacher	163

Of Pathos	165

Of the Pathos of Fenelon	167

Bourdaloue Flavian V	168

Of the Peroration	174

Of Memory	176

Of the Action of an Orator	183

Of Motives to excite the Emulation of Christian Orators	185

CONCERNING PRONUNCIATION AND GESTURE SECTION I How we may speak so as to be heard without Diffi culty and with Pleasure	187

General Rules for the Variation of the Voice	190

Particular Rules for Varying the Voice	192

Of Gesture	195

Of the Exordium	29

Of the Explication of the Subject	31

Of the Production of I leas	32

Of the Eloquence of the Bar	36

Of Cicero	40

Of Demosthenes	43

Of Bossuet	49

Of Interrogation	55

Of the Eloquence of Bridaine	59

Of the Choice of Subjects	63

Of Panegyrics	65

Of Vincent de Paul	72

Of describing Characters	74

Of Compliments	75

Of a direct Address and Rhetorical Dialogue	79

Of an Ardent Style	82

Of Epithets	86

Of the Necessity of an Orators refining his style	87

Of a proper Selection of Words	89

Of Metaphors	92

Of Technical Expressions	95

Of Dignity of Style	97

Of Transitions	98

Of a copious Style	101