SECT. II.

Of the PARTS OF A THEME, with an Example.

THE PARTS of a THEME are

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G.THE feven, Propofition, Reafon, Confirmation, Simile, Example, Teftimony, and Conclufion. Which may be remember'd by this Verfe.

Pono, Probo, Firmo, Simil, Exemp, Tefteq; Claudo,

An Example of a THEME. The Thes or Text from Juvenal. Sat. 14. ver. 73.

Plurimum enim intererit, quibus Artibus, & quibus hunc tu
Moribus inftituas.—

Children, like tender Oziers, take the Bow,
And as they first are fashion'd always grow:
Hence what we learn in Youth, to that alone
In Age we are by fecond Nature prone.

Dryden jun.

ROPOSITION. Nemo poteft illos dedifcère Mores, aut eam excutere. vivendi' Rationem, ad quam ab ipfis olim Incunabulis affuevit. REASON. Quoniam Impetus ille primus, te

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neræ

OBS. III. TIES and maxime proprium eft, &c. QyodHE BEAU- fiquando ita incidat, Vitia,

BLEMISHES of Orations ought to be pointed out to Learners: Let therefore all Inftructors of Youth liften to. QUINTILIAN's Prefcription; Demonftrare Virtutes, vel,

que in Inventione, quodque in Elocutione adnotandum erit: quæ in Prooemio conciliandi Ra

tio:

quæ Narrandi Lux, Brevitas, Fides: quod aliquando Confilium, & quàm occulta Cal

liditas,

neræ Pueritia inditus, tam magnum habet in universâ Hominum Vitâ Momentum, ut dediscat id ferò, quod quis didicit diu. CONFIRM ATION. Quæ enim longâ Annorum Serie, frequentiffimâque Actionum Iteratione acquiruntur, in alteram quafi Naturam tranfeunt. SIMILE, Quemadmodum Avium Pulli, & Ferarum Catuli, femel manfuefacti, femper manent cicures etiam quando in grandiores evaferint: Non diffimiliter quos didicerit Mores Puerilis tas, eofdem etiam tum quando adoleverit, penitiffimè fibi infixos ufque retinebit. EXAMPLE. Ovidio, foribendis Verfibus à teneris Annis dedito, tam familiaris ac penè naturalis facta eft Poetica Facultas, ut illi per univerfam deinceps Vitam Sponte fua Numeros Carmen veniebat ad aptos; Nec diffimiliter contigit in reliquis Artibus, vivendique InftiTESTIMONY. Ad quid enim aliud refpexit Cicero, cum dixerit, Nullum nos poffe majus meliufve Reipublice afferre Munus, quam docendo & erudiendo Juventutem, nifi quòd, Recta Juventutis Inftitutio ad fummum Reipublicæ Emolumentum conducat' maximè. CONCLUSION. Proinde Siquis in votis habeat, Liberos fuos ad Virtutem formare, ac bonos Mores; id imprimis Operam det, ut Virtutis atque Pietatis Odore, ab ipfis ftatim Fafciis, intimiùs imbuantur; quem ad extremam ufque fenectutem redolebunt.

tutis.

;

See Clark's Formulæ Oratoriæ, 1670. See also thofe Examples of Orations, Declamations, Themes, &c. from SCRIPTURE and the CLASSICS, which I have refer'd to the Head of Pronunciation, for the diligent Student to exercise himfelf in that Part of Rhetoric.

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que lenis & quadrata, fed virilis tamen Compofitio. Nec id quidem inutile, etiam cor. ruptas aliquando & vitiofas Orationes, quas tamen plerique Judiciorum Pravitate mirantur, legi palam Pueris, oftendique in bis, quàm multa impropria, obfcura, tumida, humilia, fordida, lafciva, effeminata fint:

quæ non laudantur modò à plerifque, fed (quod pejus eft) propter hoc ipfum, quòd funt prava, laudantur. Hoc Diligentiæ Genus aufim dicere plus collaturum difcentibus, quàm omnes omnium Artes. Nam in omnibus ferè minus valent Præcepta quàm Experimenta. Inft. lib. 2. cap. 5.

PART

PART III.

Of ELOCUTION, or, The Adorning our Expreffions with Tropes, Figures, and Beautiful Turns.

In what doth Elocution confift, and what are it's Parts? What doth Compofition regard? What does Elegance confift in? What mean you by Dignity of Language? What's the Difference between Tropes and Figures? §. 1. What is a Trope? How many and what are the Chief Tropes in Language? What is a Metaphor? an Allegory? a Metonymy? Synecdoche? an Irony? Hyperbole? a Catachrefis? Where are thefe Tropes. well explain'd? Read the Explication, Meaning and Derivation of the Terms, with Examples. What Other Tropes are there? How many and what are the Faults of Tropes? §. 2. What is a Figure? How many, and what are the Principal Figures in Speech? What is an Ecphonefis? an Apo-ria? &c. Read the Explication, Meaning and Derivation of thefe Figures, with Examples. What Other Figures are there? How many and what are the Faults of Figures? §. 3. What are Repetitions or Fine Turns? How many, and what are the Principal Repetitions? What is Anaphora? EpiStrophe?

Strophe? &c. Read the Meaning and Derivation of thofe Repetitions, with Examples. What other Repetitions are there? What is to be obferv'd in the Ufe of Repetitions?

LOCUTION confifts in the finding out proper, polite, and ornamental Expreffions to fignify our Thoughts. Hence it's Parts

are Compofition, Elegance, and Dignity.

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