THE

METHOD

OF

TEACHING AND STUDYING

THE

BELLES LETTRES;

OR,

AN INTRODUCTION

TO

LANGUAGES, POETRY, RHETORIC, HISTORY,

MORAL PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, &c.

WITH

REFLECTIONS ON TASTE,

AND

INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ELOQUENCE OF

THE PULPIT, THE BAR, AND THE STAGE.
The whole illustrated with Passages from the most famous

Poets and Orators, Ancient and Modern;

WITH CRITICAL REMARKS ON THEM.

Designed more particularly for Students in the University.

BY MR. ROLLIN,
Late Principal of the University of Paris, Professor of Eloquence
in the Royal College, and Member of the Royal

Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres.

PRINTED FOR W. J. AND J. RICHARDSON; CUTHELL AND
MARTIN; J. WALKER; OGILVY AND SON; AND

VERNOR AND HOOD:
By W. Blackader, 10, Took's Court, Chancery Lane,

1803.

BOOK III.

OF RHETORIC.

ARTICLE V.

OF FIGURES,

PAGE 1

Figures of Words,

2

1. Of Ornament,

6

2. To heighten low and common Thoughts, ibid.

3. To soften harsh Expressions,

ibid.

The Antithesis, and such-like Figures, 11

Figures of Allusion,

15

Figures with regard to Thoughts,

18

1. To address inanimate Things,

24

2. To give Speech to Things inanimate, ibid.

IMAGES.

33

ARTICLE VI. Of oratorial Precautions, 37

VII. Of the Passions,

44

SECT. HI.

OF THE ELOQUENCE OF THE BAR,

ARTICLE I. Of the Models of Eloquence pro-

per for the Bar,

58

Extracts from Demosthenes and Æschines, 61

Extracts from the first Philippic of Demos-
thenes

ibid.

Extract from the second Olynthian,

62

Extract of the Harangue concerning the

Chersonesus,

From the third Philippic,

66

Ertracts of Æschines's Harangue,

68

Extracts of Demosthenes's Harangue for

Ctesiphon,

72

The Success of the two Orations,

79

I. The Judgments of the Ancients on Æschi-

nes and Demosthenes,

80

II. Of Cicero's Eloquence, compared with

that of Demosthenes,

86

57