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THE
ELOCUTIONIST:
A COLLECTION OF
PIECES IN PROSE AND VERSE,
PECULIARLY ADAPTED TO DISPLAY THE ART OF READING, IN
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SENSE OF THE TERM ;
PRECEDED BY AN INTRODUCTION ON THE
PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION.
BY
JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES,
AUTHOR OF THE TRAGEDY OF “VIRGINIUS," ETC.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
PAGB
XV
a
XX
Table of the Inflections
RULES FOR THE INFLECTING OF SENTENCES, OR
PARTS OF SENTENCES.
RULE I.—Complete and Independent Sense .
xvii
II.-Negative Sentences
III.-Introductory Parts of a Sentence
xviii
Exception to the First and Third Rule
xix
INTERROGATION.
IV.-Questions asked by Pronouns and Adverbs
V.-Questions asked by Verbs ·
VI.-Questions put disjunctively
Exemplification of the Three preceding Rules .
Exceptions
PARENTHESIS.
VII.-How the Parenthesis should be pronounced
xxi
Exception
xxii
SERIES.
VIII.-COMP. SERIES—Commencing and Concluding xxiii
IX.--SIMPLE SERIES—Commencing and Concluding xxiv
Numerical Table of the Simple Series
xxiv
HARMONIC INFLECTION.
Observations and Examples
XXV
EXCLAMATION.
X.-A Word repeated in form of an Exclamation xxvii
ACCENT.
XI.-Words the same, in Part of their Formation xxvii
RHETORICAL DIVISION OF WORDS.
Of Words-emphatic, accented, and unaccented xxvii
EMPHASIS.
Of Emphasis absolute and relative
xxviii
XII.-Emphatic rase
RHETORICAL PUNCTUATION.
Rule and Observations
Xxxi
ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE INFLECTIONS.
The Character of Mary, Queen of Scots
xxxii
Brethren should dwell together in Harmony
xxxiv References of the Illustrations to the Rules and Notes XXXVI
XXX
3
6
PROMISCUOUS SELECTIONS IN PROSE.
On Study
Bacon,
On the Love of Life
Goldsmith,
2
On Grieving for
the Dead
Adam Smith,
On Remorse
Ibid.
Discontent, the Common Lot of all Mankind Johnson,
On the Sublime in Writing
Blair,
Reflections in Westminster Abbey
Addison, 11
Virtue, Man's Highest Interest
Harris, 12
The Monk
Sterne, 14
On Military Glory
Marmontel, 16
Liberty and Slavery
Sterne, 17
Reyno and Alpin
Ossian, 18
Story of the Siege of Calais
Fool of Quality, 20
On Living to One's-Self .
Hazlitt, 24
Comal and Galvina
Ossian, 25
On the Psalms
Hurne, 26
Anningait and Ajut
Johnson, 27
On the Pleasure of Painting
Hazlitt, 33
Damon and Pythias
Fool of Quality, 34
On the Abuse of Genius, with reference to the
Works of Lord Byron .
Knowles, 36
Harley's Death
Mackenzie, 38
Advantages of uniting Gentleness of Manners,
with Firmness of Mind
Chesterfield, 40
The Elder's Death-bed
Wilson, 42
On Lord Byron's Lines upon the Field of Waterloo Knowles, 45
The Perfect Orator .
Sheridan, 46
Lord Byron considered as a Moralist, and a Poet
Knowles, 47
Story of Le Fevre
Sterne, 48
The Distressed Father
Mornings at Bow-street, 56
On Shakspeare
Hazlitt, 58
Character of Napoleon Bonaparte
Channing, 62
The Indian Jugglers
Hazlitt, 65
On Milton
Channing, 67
Wit injures Eloquence
Maury, 71
On the Dignity of Human Nature
Channing, 72
The Hill of Science
Aikin's Miscellanies, 73
The Planetary and Terrestrial Worlds
Addison, 75
Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of Others . Burke, 77
An Exhortation to the Study of Eloquence
Cicero, 78
On the Cultivation of the Intellectual Powers Tayler, 79
The Falling Leaf
Anonymous, 81
Happiness
Ibid. 82
The Idiot
Blackwood's Magazine, 83
PULPIT ELOQUENCE.
The Departed Spirits of the Just are Spectators of
our Conduct on Earth
Time and Manner of the Arriva) of Death .
Finlayson, 8.5
Logan, 86
99
PAGR
On the Threatened Invasion in 1803
Hall, 87
The Christian Mother
Kirwan, 89
Christ our Consolation and Relief, under the Ap-
prehension of being Separated by Death from
those we Love
Lngan,
90
Infatuation of Mankind, with regard to the Things
of Time
Kirnan, 91
Danger of Delay, in Matters of Religion
Logan, 93
On the Death of the Princess Charlotte
Hall, 95
On the Death of the Princess Charlotte.
Chalmers,
Sitting in the Chair of the Scorner
Logan, 102
The Plurality of Worlds not an Argument against
the Truth of Revelation
Chalmers, 103
Christ's Agony
Logan, 106
The Deluding Influence of the World
Kirnan, 107
There is no Peace to the Wicked
Logan, 109
On the Importance of an Interest in the Divine
Favour
Cappe, 110
The Melancholy Effects of Early Licentiousness
(in a Sermon preached for the Female Orphan
House)
Kirwan, 113
Religion the distinguishing Quality of our Nature
Logan, 114
On the Internal Proofs of the Christian Religion Channing, 115
On Temper
Montgomery, 118
Character of Ruth
Fox, 121
The Union of Friendship with Religion Recom-
mended
Hutton, 123
On the Education of Females
Montgomery, 127
Exhortation to Youth to cultivate a Devotional
Spirit
Tayler, 130
.
ANCIENT AND MODERN ORATORY.
135
138
Sheridan, 141
143
147
Sallust, 149
Hannibal to his Soldiers
Speech of Lord Chatham, in the House of Peers,
against the American War, and against em-
ploying the Indians in it
Cicero against Verres
Inrective against Hastings
Cicero for Milo
Lord Chatham's Reply to Sir Robert Walpole
Caius Marius to the Romans
Demosthenes to the Athenians, exciting them to
prosecute the War against Philip
Curran for Hamilton Rowan
Beginning of the First Philippic of Demosthenes
The first Oration of Cicero against Cataline
An Extract from Mr. Brougham's Speech on Ne-
gro Slavery
Peroration to Sheridan's Invective against War-
ren Hastings
Panegyric on the Eloquence of Sheridan
151
156
158
160
161
165
Burke, 167