INDEX.

A

ACTION, human, seven causes thereof, 112. 211. Its
connection with pleasure, 140. Rhetorical, treated by
Glaucon of Teios, 364. Wherein it consists, 365.
Adages, nature, and kinds thereof, 322. et seq.

Esop, his Fables, why called African tales, 319.

Agathon, the poet, cited, 315.

Alcæus, his proposal to Sappho, 203.

Alpharabius, a luminary of the Arabs, 19.

Amasis, king of Egypt, why he wept not on seeing his son
dragged to execution, though his tears flowed for a
slighter evil, 289.

Amplification, where it is proper, 208, 209. Its sources, 315.
Amplification and compression, how to be produced, 385.
Analysis, method of, 139. Modern, indefinite in improve-
ment, 147.

Analogy, topic thereof, 345.

Anaximenes of Lampsacus, 8. His rhetoric, ibid.
Ancestry, noble, 176.

Anger, the passion of, wherein pleasant, 218. Defined, 255.
Excited by disdain, offence, or insult, 256. Its subjects,
259. Its objects, 260. Circumstances which aggravate
it, 261. How to be appeased, 264.

Animation, of style, 405. et seq.

Antigoné pleads the law of nature against king Creon, 231.
Antimachus, his mode of amplification, 386.

Antiphon, his reproach to his fellow-sufferers who muffled
their faces, 284.

Apophthegms, what? 408.

Appetites, their nature and use, 116. When right, ibid.
Arbuthnot, Dr., cited, 109.

Areopagus, tribunal of, its constitution, 153.
Argumentation, how to be conducted, 442. 445.

Arguments, the best, those that are natural, but not obvious,
352. Why less convincing than replies, 351.
Ariosto, cited, 326. note.

Aristotle, his advantages for treating rhetoric, 7. His writ-
ings neglected, and why, 15. Early perverted, 17.
Studied and admired in the age of Cicero and Augustus,
118.

His logic explained and vindicated, 27. et seq.
His metaphysics explained and vindicated, 71. et seq. His
doctrine of sensation supersedes the distinction of primary
and secondary qualities, 85. His warning against the
abuse of syllogism, 65. Anticipates and refutes scepti-
cism, 91. His account of the invention of nouns appel-
lative, 129. Anticipates, or corrects, the modern remarks
on that subject, ibid. His rules too rigidly explained by
some critics, 449. Ignorantly despised by others, 460.

Explained and vindicated, 469. 477.

Arts, imitative, 221.

Athenians, their merits and demerits, 331.

Attention, how to be excited, 425.

Assemblies, national, guided by different principles from

those which influence courts of justice, 155.

Association, of ideas, 135.

Averroes, a luminary of the Arabs, 19.

Avicenna, 19.

Axioms, what? 41.

B

Bacon, Lord, his merits, 98. Wherein his philosophy agreed

and differed from Aristotle's, 99.

Beauty, relative to different periods of life, 179. Moral,
definitions of, 199.

Berkeley, a reformer in philosophy, 79.83.

Birth, high, its characteristics, 308.

Bos, Du, his opinion concerning dramatic delusion, contro-
verted, 467.

Buhle, Mr., cited, 478. note.

Burke cited, 142. His notion of pleasure controverted,
ibid. His notions of the sublime, 465.

Their bad effects

on the arts of design and of literary composition, ibid.

note.

C

Callippus, assassinates Dion, and why, 229.

Carpathus, Isle of, 412. Proverb derived from it, ibid.
Carcinus, the tragedian, 35. note.

Causes, doctrine of, 75-137. Misapplied by the school-

men, 78,

Chance and fortune, their meaning, 113. 213.
Chabrias, his statue, its singular attitude, 404.

Change and variety, why pleasant, 221.

Cephisodotus, the orator, his sarcasm against Chares, 402.
Cicero cited, 231, 232. His praise of Aristotle, 459.
Closely follows him, ibid.

Clarke, Dr. Samuel, cited, 76. His theory of morals im-
perfect, 118.

Clerc, Le, 79.

Commerce, its principles, 174.

Comparisons, 379. Examples of good ones, 380. et seq.

Conclusion, the, in oratory, 454.

Consciousness, doubts concerning its import, 101, 102.

Contraries, their nature, 334. Topic of, ibid.

Consequences, topic of, 343.

Consistency, topic of, 338.

Contracts, how attacked and defended, 245. et seq.

Corax, his rhetoric, 358.

Cosmo, de Medici, founder of the Platonic academy, 21.
Creon, his authority opposed by Antigoné, 231.

Credit, how obtained, 254. Independently of argument, 255.
Criticism, present state of, 4.

Custom, or association of ideas, Aristotle's doctrine of, 80—
113. 119. 135. 475.

Cuvier, Baron, cited, 134. note.

Cydias, the orator, cited, 283.

D

D'Alembert, Mr., admits Aristotle's argument for the soul's

spirituality, 85.

But mistakes its author, ibid.

His

meaning by extension, what? 370.

Degerando, Baron, cited, 33. 54.

Deliberation, national, the five points on which it turns, 171.
440.

Definitions, source of, 39. Topic from, 340.

Diopeithes, the orator, made an object of pity by the king's
presents, 289.

Diction, poetical, why to be rejected in prose, 367.
Diderot, Mr., cited, 103. note.

E

Ecclectics, who? 19. Their diffusion through Asia, ibid.
Elegance of style, what? 399. Its three sources, 400. et
seq.

Elocution, rhetorical, more important than style, and style

than thought, through faulty political arrangements, 365.
Eloquence, demonstrative, includes historical composition,
11. Popular, its requisites, 329. Ought to be adapted
to the character and number of the hearers, 417.
Empedocles cited, 132. His style, 382.

Emulation defined, 299. Its causes, subjects, and objects,
ibid.

Encyclopedias, those of Paris and Edinburgh, 71.

Energies, their nature, 140. Their correspondent pleasures,
ibid. How to be improved, 475.

Energy of style, 405. et seq.

Enesidemus, his presents to Gelon, 130.

Enthymemes, the main thing in rhetoric, 156. Those be-
longing respectively to the three kinds of oratory, 331.
et seq. Compared with examples, 441. Subjects to which
they are respectively best adapted, ibid.

Envy defined, 295. Deductions from this definition, 296.
Epicharmus, his mode of amplification, 194.