...there is always some end proposed, or some effect which the speaker intends to produce in the hearer. The word eloquence in its greatest latitude denotes, " That art or talent by which the dis" course is adapted to its end *." * " Dicere secundum virtutem orationis. Scientia bene dicendi."...

...there is always some end proposed, or some effect which the speaker intends to produce in the hearer. The word eloquence in its greatest latitude denotes,...talent by which the * discourse is adapted to its end *.' * " Dicere secundum virtutem orationis. Scientia bene dicendi." Quintilian. The word eloquence,...

...truly belonged to me. To come therefore to the point in hand; it was observed in a former lecture that the word eloquence, in its greatest latitude, denotes...by which the discourse is adapted to its end. Now all the legitimate ends of speaking, whatever be the subject, you will find, if you '\ attend to it,...

...; and perhaps, after all, themost unexceptionable definition ever given is that of Campbell, " the art or talent by which the discourse is adapted to its end." The second lecture is occupied in a vindication of eloquence from the objections,, that it is a " pedantick,"...

...belonged to me. To come, therefore, to the point in hand : it was observed in a former lecture that the word eloquence, in its greatest latitude, denotes...by which the discourse is adapted to its end. | Now all the legitimate ends of speaking, whatever I be the subject, you will find, if you attend to. it,...

...clearness and regularity to them. CHAP. IV. OF KLOQVENCS. ELOQUENCE, in its greatest latitude, denote» " that art or talent by which the discourse is adapted to its end ;" to to be truly eloquent is to speak to the purpose. The most essential requisites in eloquence are,...

...have seen, I am best satisfied with that of Dr. Campbell, viz. that "in its largest acceptation, it is that art or talent by which the discourse is adapted to its end." II. WHAT is THE END OF ELOQUENCE ? The general answer is, — to move men to action as rational beings....

...what does eloquence consist ? It has been defined by one to be, the art o( persuasion ; by another, that art or talent by which the discourse is adapted to its end ; and by another still, the art of rapidly transferring our sentiments into the minds of others. This...

...there is always some end proposed, or some effect which the speaker intends to produce on the hearer. The word eloquence in its greatest latitude denotes,...or talent by which the discourse is adapted to its endi." All the ends of speaking are reducible to four; every speech being intended to enlighten the...

...eloquence to rhetoric — " The word eloquence, taken in its greatest latitude, denotes " (he says) " that art or talent by which the discourse is adapted to its end. All the ends of speaking" (continues he) " are reducible to four ; eveiy speech being intended to enlighten...