ON RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES. BY HUGH BLAIR, D.D. & F.R.S. E. ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE HIGH CHURCH, AND PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOLUME I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR 'RICHARDSON & co.; SHARPE & son; BALDWYN & co.; W. BAYNES & son; G. OFFER : W. ROBINSON & SONS, LIVERPOOL : · 1823. Page 91 III. Criticism — Genius— Pleasures of Taste- IV. The Sublime in Writing - - - 65 V. Beauty, and other Pleasures of Taste VI. Rise and Progress of Language - 111 VII. Rise and Progress of Language, and of Writ- VIII. Structure of Language - '. - 158 IX. Structure of Language-English Tongue 184 X. Style—Perspicuity and Precision XII. Structure of Sentences - - - 262 XIII. Structure of Sentences-Harmony - 288 XIV. Origin and Nature of Figurative Language 316 XVI. Hyperbole—Personification-Apostrophe . 368 |