The Philosophy of Rhetoric (Classic Reprint) Book

INTRODUCTION. ALL art is founded in science, and the science is of little value which does not serve as a foundation to some beneficial art. On the most sublime of all sciences, theology and ethics, is built the most important of all arts, the art of living. The abstract mathematical sciences serve as a ground-work to the arts of the land-measurer and the accountant; and in conjunction with natural philosophy, including geography and astronomy, to those of the architect, the navigator, thedialist, and many others. Of what consequence anatomy is to surgery, Table of Contents CON T E N T S; BOOK I; the mature AND FOUNDATIONS OF ELOQUflNCE; CHAP J Eloquence in the largest acceptation defined, its more general forms exhibited, with their different Objects,; Ends, and Characters 13; CHAP II Of Wit, Humor, and Ridicule 20; Sect 1 Of wit 21; Sect II Of humor 28; Sect III Of ridicule 34; CHAP III The Doctrine of the preceding Chapter defended 41; Sect, I Aristotle's account of the ridiculous explained ib; Sect II lfobbes's account of laughter cxamiued 43; CHAP TV Of the Relation which Eloquence bears to Logic; and to Grammar- 46; CHAP V Of the different Sources of Evidence, aud the different Subjects to which they are respectively adapted 49; Sect I Of intuitive evidence 50; Part I Mathematical axiom? ib; Part II Consciousness 52; Part III Common Sense ib; Sect II Of deductive evidence 58; Part I Division of the subject into scientific and moral,; with the principal distinctions bctvveRead More