English language - Rhetoric - Early works to 1800
Works from the collections
34 works
- E-books
- Online
A grammar of the English tongue . With the arts of logick, rhetorick, poetry, &c. Illustrated with useful notes; giving the grounds and reasons of grammar in general. The whole making a compleat system of an English education. For the Use of the Schools of Great-Britain and Ireland.
Date: [1735?]- E-books
- Online
A system of rhetoric , in a method entirely new. Containing all the tropes and figures necessary to illustrate the classics, both Poetical and Historical. To render which more generally useful, The Whole is divided into two Parts; in the first of which the Rules are given in English, in the second in Latin Verse; below which are placed proper Examples in each Language; and at the Bottom of the Page are the Terms translated in the one, and their Derivations from the Greek, in the other. For the Use of Schools. By John Stirling, M. A. Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Gordon.
Stirling, John, d. 1777.Date: 1744- E-books
- Online
Syllabus of a course of rhetorical lectures in which the art of reading and speaking the English language With Elegance and Propriety, will be laid down on principles entirely new; and Illustrated in a Manner adapted to every Capacity. By John Rice, author of An introduction to the art of reading with Energy and Propriety *, and Editor of Milton's Paradise Lost, on a new Plan, For the Use of Schools *. * To be published, in a few Days, for Messrs. J. and R. Tonson in the Strand.
Rice, John, fl. 1765.Date: 1765]- E-books
- Online
The mystery of rhetorick unveiled . Wherein above 130 of The Tropes and Figures are severally derived from the Greek into English; together, with lively Definitions, and Variety Of Latin, English, and Scriptural Examples. Pertinent to each of them apart. Eminently Delightful and Profitable for young Scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the Elegancy in any Author they read, &c. The tenth edition. By John Smith, Gent.
Smith, John, Gent.Date: 1721- E-books
- Online
The philosophy of rhetoric . By George Campbell, ... In two volumes.
Campbell, George, 1719-1796.Date: 1776