The art of rhetoric made easy: or, the elements of oratory briefly stated, and fitted for the practice of the studious youth of Great-Britain and Ireland: in two books. The First comprehending the Principles of that excellent Art, conformable to, and supported by the Authority of the most accurate Orators and Rhetoricians, both Ancient and Modern, viz. Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero, Dionysius Halicarnass. Quintilian, Vossius, Petrus Ramus, Cyp. Soarius, Aud. Talaeus, Dugard, Farnaby, Butler, Smith, Walker, Burton, Blackwall, Lowe, Rollin, A. B. of Cambray, Mess. de Port-Royal, &c. The Whole being distinguished into what is necessary to be repeated, and what may be made only Matter of Observation. The Second containing the Substance of Longinus's celebrated Treatise on the Sublime. In Both which all Technical Terms are fully explained, with their Derivations, and proper Examples applied to demonstrate and illustrate allthe Tropes, Figures, and Fine Turns, that are to be met with, or imit

People / Organizations

• John Holmes (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for and sold by C. Hitch, and L. Hawes, in Pater-Noster Row, and the booksellers in Cambridge, Norwich and Dublin, MDCCLV. [1755]

Publication year

1755-1755

ESTC No.

T90583

Grub Street ID

310438

Description

[18],96;71,[7]p. ; 8⁰

Note

The second book has its own titlepage: 'The art of rhetoric made easy: or, the elements of oratory. Book II. .. ' London: re-printed in the year M.DCC.LV., and its own pagination and register.

With a final advertisement leaf.