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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE XXI. RATIOCINATION. INDUCTION. IN my last lecture I was attempting to explain to you the manner, in which the art of logic and its forms of reasoning are applied with elegance and effect to the purposes of oratory. You have all lived long enough in the world to know, that usefulness and pleasure have some natural prepossessions against each other, which are not always easily removed; but which must be removed before they can form that intimate and inseparable alliance, on which the strength and permanency of their worth alone depend. The argumentative part of a discourse is its living soul. It is to true eloquence what charity is to true Christianity. Without it, though you should speak with the VOL. II. 7 tongues of men and of angels, you would become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. Yet, although including in itself all the usefulness of oratory, it is very scantily gifted with its charms. The act of pure, abstract reasoning is the glory of man; but as it is that portion of the human character, in which we partake of a superior nature, it is too exalted and refined for the earthly part of our composition. The ornaments and graces, in which oratory studiously attires the muscular form of logic, are indulgences to human infirmity. They are the honey, in which the wholesome draught of instruction must be mingled to make it palatable. Et quasi Musaeo dulci contingere mclie. In the first book of his treatise upon invention, Cicero has given a very clear and minute explanation of the epichirema and enthymem, included under the general term ratiocination; and has illustrated them by various examples, the most remarkable of which is an argument to prove, that the world is governed by a superintending providence. In his works of practical oratory however...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217859844
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 74
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217859844
  • Publisher Date: 03 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 150 gr


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