ON

RHETORIC

AND

BELLES LETTRES.

By HUGH BLAIR, D. D.

ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE HIGH CHURCH, AND
PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

BASIL:

Printed and fold by JAMES DECKER.
PARIS, fold by Levrault FRERES, Quai Malaquai,

1 8 0 1.

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

München

OF THE

THIRD VOLUME.

LECT.

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XXXIV. MEANS of Improving in Eloquence.

XXXV. Comparative Merit of the Ancients and the

Moderns Hiftorical Writing.

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I. Philofophical Writing - Dialogue - Epif

tolary Writing -Fictitious History

II. Nature of Poetry

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XLII.