26. On an acquaintance with the Spanish language and literature. (In Spanish.) 27. On the character of Byron. 28. On the progress of refinement. 29. On the condition and prospects of the American people. 30. On the sublimity of the Holy Scriptures. 31. De recentioribus cum antiquis collatis; or, ancients and moderns compared. (In Latin.) 32. On American feeling. 33. On national eloquence. 34. The influence of commerce upon letters. 35. A modern canon of criticism. 36. Supposed degeneracy of the age. 37. No good that is possible, but shall one day be real. 38. Public recreations. 39. Empiricism. 40. The literary profession. 41. Moral effort. 42. De virorum illustrium exemplis. (Latin.) The examples of illustrious men. 43. Criticism. 44. The Christian philosophy, its political application. 45. Mental refinement. 46. Popularity. 47. Decision of character, as demanded in our day and country. 48. The character of Lord Bacon. 49. The diversities of character. 50. Literary justice. 51. Superstition. 52. The influence of speculative minds. 53. American aristocracy. 54. The value of the political lessons left us by the founders of our free institutions. 55. Enthusiasm. 56. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. (Latin.) Speak no evil of the dead. 57. The spirit of reform. 58. The spirit of ancient and modern education. 59. The lot of the portrayer of passion. 60. The love of truth -a practical principl. 61. The progress of man. 62. Radicalism. 63. Ancient veneration for the public. 64. The dangers of intolerance under a popular government. 65. The dangers to which the minds of young men in our country are exposed. 66. The character and prospects of the State of New York. 67. Mutation of taste. 68. Patriotism. 69. Every man a debtor to his profession. 70. Of living in times of great intellectual excitement. 71. The diffusion of scientific knowledge among the people. 72. The importance of efforts and institutions for the diffusion of know ledge. 73. Early prejudices. 74. The advancement of the age. 75. The progress of human nature. 76. Moral sublimity. 77. Home the American home. 78. The permanence of literary fame. 79. The claims of the age on the young men of America. 80. On Physiognomy. (In Hebrew.) 81. Sur la Révolution Francaise. (French.) On the French Revolution. 83. On innovation. 84. On the restoration of Greece. 85. De institutorum Americanorum eventûs et libertatis causæ conjunc- tione. (Latin.) 86. The middle ages. 87. De oraculis. (Latin.) 88. The heroic character. 89. The duties of republican citizens. 90. The duties of an American citizen. 91. On republican institutions as affecting private character. 92. On imagination as affecting individual happiness. 93. On war. 94. De Romanæ libertatis et eloquentiæ casu. The decline of Roman 95. Views of happiness. 96. De Caii Marií ævo. (Latin.) The age of Caius Marius. 97. Skepticism. 98. De festis diebus qui nostra in Universitate celebrantur. (Latin.) 99. Modern patriotism. 100. De literis Latinis. 101. The sacrifices and recompense of literary life. 102. Quid de artibus ingenuis in civitatibus America sperandum sit. 104. De Locorum in animum vi. 105. Martyrdom. 106. Socrates. (Greek.) 107. De priscorum diis. (Latin.) The ancient divinities. 109. On the revolutionary spirit of modern times. 110. On the durability of the Federal Union. 111. Present influences on American literature. 112. The return to Palestine. 113. De Græcarum literarum studio. (Latin.) 114. De vitæ in Universitate nostra. 115. Elements of poetry and romance in America. 116. De philosophiæ studio. 117. The pride of scholarship. 118. The physical sciences. 119 The present and former condition of Greece. (Greek.) 120. De oratoribus Americanis. 121. Periodical literature. 122. De hujus temporis indole. 123. The teacher. 124. De eloquentiæ studio in scholis nostris neglecto. 125. American political influences. 126. De literarum scholis nostris. 127. The scholar's hope. 128. De rebus preteritis et presentibus. 130. Literæ Americanæ. 131. Revolutions of literature. 132. De linguæ Latinæ hoc tempore usu. 136. The advantages of speaking in French-in Greek, &c. 137. The moral influence of science. 138. The prospects of America. 139. Literary vanity. 140. The crusades. 141. On artificial aids to memory. 142. On Phrenology. 143. On Mesmerism. 144. On the proneness of genius to theorizing. 145. On intellectual culture. 146. On the prevalence of erroneous views of the value of metaphysical science. 147. The contributions of the fine arts to the pleasures of the domestic circle. 148. The prospects of a universal language. 149. On ancient and modern democracy. 150. On Aristocracy. 151. The future prospects of the United States. XCIX. LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS VOLUME. In presenting a list of authorities which have been consulted in the preparation of this volume, the author makes this general acknowledgment that, as usefulness, not originality, has been his aim, he has in some instances copied verbatim from the pages of those in whom he has found anything of value subservient to his purpose; in some he has taken the liberty to alter the phraseology, and in others entirely to remodel the principles which he has found scattered throughout these authorities. The works to which he has been most largely indebted, are Booth's Principles of English Composition, Walker's Teacher's Asssistant, Newman's, Blair's, Whately's, and Jamieson's Rhetoric, and Jardine's Principles of English Composition. Other works from which he has gleaned something of value, or hints for the improvement of what he has elsewhere gathered, are as follow: Rippingham's Rules of English Composition; Rice's Composition; Carey's English Prosody; Roe's Elements of English Metre; Steele's Prosodia Rationalis; Crabbe's Synonymes; Harris's Hermes; Pickbourne on the English Verb; D'Israeli's Curiosities of Modern Literature; Walker's, Johnson's, Sheridan's, Richardson's, and Webster's Dictionaries; Locke's Essay on the Understanding; Watts on the Mind; Dictionary of Quotations; Andrew's and Stoddard's, and Adam's Latin Grammars; Murray's, Brown's, Felton's, Lennie's, Parker's, and Fox's English Grammars; Hedge's Logic; Encyclopædia Americana; Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; Towne's Analysis of Derivative Words; American First Class Book; Mayo's Lessons on Objects; Miller's Practice of English Composition; Lockhart's Life of Scott; Taylor's Elements of Thought; Hannam's Pulpit Assistant; Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon; The London Quarterly Journal of Education; Beauties of History; The Spectator; Inn's Rhetorical Class Book; Lallemand's Artillery Service; Beclard's Physiology; Poole's English Parnassus; The School and the Schoolmaster; Bentley's Miscellany; Quarles' Books of Emblems; Knox's Essays; Hay's Biography. 66 Rules of, 126. แ Happy instances of, in several styles, note, 297. Burletta, 297. Author of Lacon's Remarks Butterfly and Humming Bird, The, on, note, 126. Antonomasia, 63. an Allegory, 135. much used by historical writ- Casura, proper position of, 234. ers, note, 65. Apheresis, 76. Apologue and Fable, 136. Apostrophe, 28, 30, 77, 143. peculiar (as a rhetorical figure) to Poetry and Oratory, 144. Cantata, 287. Canzonet, 287. Capital Letters, Rules for the Use of, 25. Cards Ceremonious, Business, and Wedding, forms of, 195, 196, 197. Caret, 28 and 32. |