INDEX. A ACTION, human, seven causes thereof, 112. 211. Its 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 Amplification, where it is proper, 208, 209. Its sources, 315. Analogy, topic thereof, 345. Anaximenes of Lampsacus, 8. His rhetoric, ibid. Anger, the passion of, wherein pleasant, 218. Defined, 255. Animation, of style, 405. et seq. Antigoné pleads the law of nature against king Creon, 231. Antiphon, his reproach to his fellow-sufferers who muffled Apophthegms, what? 408. Appetites, their nature and use, 116. When right, ibid. Areopagus, tribunal of, its constitution, 153. Arguments, the best, those that are natural, but not obvious, Aristotle, his advantages for treating rhetoric, 7. His writ- His logic explained and vindicated, 27. et seq. 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, Berkeley, a reformer in philosophy, 79.83. Birth, high, its characteristics, 308. Bos, Du, his opinion concerning dramatic delusion, contro- Buhle, Mr., cited, 478. note. Burke cited, 142. His notion of pleasure controverted, 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. Causes, doctrine of, 75-137. Misapplied by the school- men, 78, Chance and fortune, their meaning, 113. 213. Change and variety, why pleasant, 221. Cephisodotus, the orator, his sarcasm against Chares, 402. Clarke, Dr. Samuel, cited, 76. His theory of morals im- 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. Credit, how obtained, 254. Independently of argument, 255. Custom, or association of ideas, Aristotle's doctrine of, 80— 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. Definitions, source of, 39. Topic from, 340. Diopeithes, the orator, made an object of pity by the king's Diction, poetical, why to be rejected in prose, 367. E Ecclectics, who? 19. Their diffusion through Asia, ibid. Elocution, rhetorical, more important than style, and style than thought, through faulty political arrangements, 365. Emulation defined, 299. Its causes, subjects, and objects, Encyclopedias, those of Paris and Edinburgh, 71. Energies, their nature, 140. Their correspondent pleasures, Energy of style, 405. et seq. Enesidemus, his presents to Gelon, 130. Enthymemes, the main thing in rhetoric, 156. Those be- Envy defined, 295. Deductions from this definition, 296. |