PRINCIPLES OF ELOQUENCE. ADAPTED TO THE PULPIT AND THE BAR. BY THE ABBE MAURY. PN M4213 TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH; WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES, BY JOHN NEAL LAKE,4 M. INDIANA UNIVERSITY TO WHICH ARE ADDED MR. WESLEY'S DIRECTIONS CONCERNING PRONUNCIATION Neque verò mihi quidquam præstabilius videtur, quam posse We must not judge so unfavourably of eloquence as to reckon NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY T. MASON AND G. LANE, For the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Conference Office, how dico J. Collord, Printer. 1837. WL CONTENTS ΤΟ Page SECT. I. Design of this Discourse II. Description of the Eloquence of the Pulpit III. Of the Means of persuading a large As- IV. Advantages of an Orator's studying himself VI. Of the Plan of a Discourse VII. Of Plans drawn from the Text VIII. Of the Progression of the Plan XLVIII. Of Barrow, Young, Maddox, &c. State of Pulpit Eloquence among the English XLIX. Of M. Thomas, and the Revolution he effected in the Style of Rhetorical L. Of the Use of the Holy Scriptures LI. Of the Fathers of the Church MR. WESLEY'S DIRECTIONS CONCERNING PRONUNCIATION AND GESTURE. SECT. I. How we may speak so as to be heard without Difficulty, and with Pleasure II. General Rules for the Variation of the |