A system of rhetoric, in a method entirely new. Containing all the tropes and figures necessary to illustrate the classics, both Poetical and Historical. To render which more generally useful, The Whole is divided into two Parts; in the first of which the Rules are given in English, in the second in Latin Verse; below which are placed proper Examples in each Language; and at the Bottom of the Page are the Terms translated in the one, and their Derivations from the Greek in the other. For the Use of Schools. By John Stirling, M. A. Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stirling, John, d. 1777.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Early works to 1800.

English language.

Genre:

Poems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],25,[3]p. )

Edition:

The third edition.

Other Title:

System of rhetoric,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Thomas Astley, at the Rose, over-against the North-Door of St. Paul's, MDCCXL. [1740]

Notes:

With a half-title.

The last 3-pages contain advertisements.

In verse.

English and Latin.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Foxon, S764.5

Alston, VI 148

English Short Title Catalog, T90585.

OCLC:

642725243