136. The advantages of speaking in French-in Greek, &c. 137. The moral influence of science. 138. The prospects of America. 139. Literary vanity. 140. The crusades. 141. On artificial aids to memory. 142. On Phrenology. 143. On Mesmerism. 144. On the proneness of genius to theorizing. 145. On intellectual culture. 14. On the prevalence of erroneous views of the value of metaphysical science. 147. The contributions of the fine arts to the pleasures of the domestic LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS VOLUME. In presenting a list of authorities which have been consulted in the pre ration of this volume, the author makes this general acknowledgmentthat, as usefulness, not originality, has been his aim, he has in some in stances copied verbatim from the pages of those in whom he has found any thing of value subservient to his purpose; in some he has taken the liberty to alter the phraseology, and in others entirely to remodel the principles which he has found scattered throughout these authorities. The works to which he has been most largely indebted, are Booth's Principles of English Composition, Walker's Teacher's Asssistant, Newman's, Blair's, Whately's, and Jamieson's Rhetoric, and Jardine's Principles of English Composition. Other works from which he has gleaned something of value, or hints for the improvement of what he has elsewhere gathered, are as follow: Rippingham's Rules of English Composition; Rice's Composition; Carey's English Prosody; Roe's Elements of English Metre; Steele's Prosodia Rationalis; Crabbe's Synonymes; Harris's Hermes; Pickbourne on the English Verb; D'Israeli's Curiosities of Modern Literature; Walker's, Johnson's, Sheridan's, Richardson's, and Webster's Dictionaries; Locke's Essay on the Understanding; Watts on the Mind; Dictionary of Quota tions; Andrew's and Stoddard's, and Adam's Latin Grammars; Murray's, Brown's, Felton's, Lennie's, Parker's, and Fox's English Grammars; Hedge's Logic; Encyclopædia Americana; Dictionary of Arts and Scien ces; Towne's Analysis of Derivative Words; American First Class Book Mayo's Lessons on Objects; Miller's Practice of English Composition Lockhart's Life of Scott; Taylor's Elements of Thought; Hannam's Pulpit Assistant; Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon; The London Quarterly Journal of Education; Beauties of History; The Spectator Inn's Rhetorical Class Book; Lallemand's Artillery Service; Beclard's Physiology; Poole's English Parnassus; The School and the School master; Bentley's Miscellany; Quarles' Books of Emblems; Knox's Essays Hay's Biography. 66 Rules of, 126. Apothem, Apothegm, or Apoph. Argumentative, 300. "Writing, example of, in a de- in Men of Business, 223. Asterisk, 28 and 32. Ballad, 287. Barbarism, 92. Bathos, notes, 64 and 303. Bernard De Rohan, Description of Bianca Capello, 322. Bombast, notes, 64 and 303. 66 in Folio, Quarto, Octavo, Du 313. Bourgeois, 312. Boutes, Rimes, note, 242. Bowdoin Prize Dissertation on the Brace, 28 and 31. Brackets, 27 and 30. Breve, 28 and 30. Brevier, 312. Bucolics, 289. Burlesque, 297. "Happy instances of, in severa styles, note, 297. Burletta, 297. an Allegory, 135. 66 Author of Lacon's Remarks Butterfly and Humming Bird, The, much used by historical writ- Cesura, proper position of, 234. ers, note, 65. Apheresis, 76. peculiar (as a rhetorical fig- Cantata, 287. Canzonet, 287. Capital Letters, Rules for the Use of, Cards Ceremonious, Business, and Example of a, 327. "Subjects for, 408. Defence of Literary Studies in Men Colon, its meaning and use, 27 and Definition, 105. Compound Sentences, formation of from Simple ones, 58. Deliberative Discussion, 350. Derivation and Composition of Words, Description of a fine-looking man, Disquisition, 341. 66 note, 174. of the elephant, 175. 66 of natural scenery, 175 and 176. Use of Epithets a, note, 175. Didactic, Introduction and 300. Diæresis, 27, 31, and 77. Diminution, or Liptotes, note, 142. 66 for the Division of a Subject, how it differs from a Disser "Ethical, political, scientific, "Ethical, Example of, on "The Dissertation, 338. Example of, on "The Causes Bowdoin Prize, on the Life Divisions of a Subject, 215. Rules for the construction o Dramatic Composition, kinds of, 296 Epopea, or Epopœia, 296. 113. Figure, Definition of translation of Plain into, 115. Figures, as enumerated by Holmes, note, 111. "Use of, 112. "Faults of, note, 112. Folding of a Letter, 188 and 189 66 Folio, 313. Esquire, title of, when to be applied, Formal Letter, Example of a, 188. 191. Formation of Compound Sentences Generalization of a Subject, 227 Ginevra, 81 and 84. Governor of a State, Title by which Harmony, 94 and 99. Rules of, 100. Higher Kind of, 101. of a Verse, how destroyed, Heads of Departments, their Titles, 66 or Divisions, of a Subject, in Hemistich, 230. the principal Metre of the Heroic Verse, 296. Heroics, Mock, 297. |