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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. 82. On decision of character.

83. On innovation.

84. On the restoration of Greece.

85. De institutorum Americanorum eventûs et libertatis causæ conjuno

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 liberty and eloquence.

95. Views of happiness.

96. De Caii Marii 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. 103. The American literary character.

104. De Locorum in animum vi.

105. Martyrdom.

106. Socrates. (Greek.)

107. De priscorum diis. (Latin.) The ancient divinities. 108. On the reciprocal influence of genius and knowledge.

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. 129. Pursuit of universal truth.

130. Literæ Americanæ.

131. Revolutions of literature.

132. De linguæ Latinæ hoc tempore usu. 133. The taking of Rome by the Gauls. 134. The progress of human sentiments. 135. The political prospects of Russia.

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.

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LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS VOLUME.

In presenting a list of authorities which have been consulted in the pre paration of this volume, the author makes this general acknowledgmentthat, as usefulness, not originality, has been his aim, he has in some in stances copied verbatim from the pages of those in whom he has found any thing 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 Quota tions; 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 Scien ces; 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 School master; Bentley's Miscellany; Quarles' Books of Emblems; Knox's Essays Hay's Biography.

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66 Rules of, 126.

Apothem, Apothegm, or Apoph-
thegm, 300.

Argumentative, 300.


Writing, example of, in a de-
fence of Literary Studies
in Men of Business, 223.

Asterisk, 28 and 32.

Ballad, 287.

Barbarism, 92.

Bathos, notes, 64 and 303.
Beauty in Writing, 104.

Bernard De Rohan, Description of,
173.

Bianca Capello, 322.
Biographical Sketch, 322.
Black Eyes and Blue, 287.
Blank Verse, 241.

Bombast, notes, 64 and 303.
Books, Technical Terms relating to,
313.

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in Folio, Quarto, Octavo, Du
odecimo, &c., 313.

Bookbinders' marks for folding, &c.

313.

Bourgeois, 312.

Boutes, Rimes, note, 242.

Bowdoin Prize Dissertation on the
Literary Character of Dr. Samuel
Johnson, 381.

Brace, 28 and 31.

Brackets, 27 and 30.

Breve, 28 and 30.

Brevier, 312.

Bucolics, 289.

Burlesque, 297.

"Happy instances of, in several

styles, note, 297.

Burletta, 297.

an Allegory, 135.

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Author of Lacon's Remarks Butterfly and Humming Bird, The,

on, note, 126.

Antonomasia, 63.


much used by historical writ- Casura, proper position of, 234.

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Example of à, 327.

Subjects for, 408.

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Confirmation, 209.

Conjunction, and how avoided, note,
53.

Connected Narrative from Scattered
Facts, 157.

Construction of Sentences, 93.
Conundrums, note, 140.
Conversation, or Simple Dialogue, 7.
Conversion of Poetry into Prose, 76.
Correction of the Press, marks used
by printers in, 310 and 311.
Couplet, or Distich, 230.
Critical Notice, 317.

"Discussion, Subjects for, 410.
Criticism, 318.
Crotchets, 27 and 30.

Cut, representing the manner in
which a letter should be folded,
189.

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Defence of Literary Studies in Men
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Colon, its meaning and use, 27 and Definition, 105.

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Deliberative Discussion, 350.
"Subjects for, 410.

Derivation and Composition of Words,

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Directions for revising, &c.,
303.

"Rules for the mechanical ex-

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ecution of, 304.


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Terms appropriate for, 166.
Selection of Circumstances
in, 167.

Sir Walter Scott's accuracy

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Correction of a, An Example

"of Words, 34.

of, 307 and 308.

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of a Sermon, 390.

Comparison, 122.

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in, note, 167.

of a country, canals, 168.

of rivers, 168 and 170.

of climate, coasts, forests,
woods, houses, level coun
try, mountains, 169.

of villages, 170.

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under what heads it may be

reduced, 123.

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Rules relating to, 123.

Compound Sentences, formation of

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of persons, of a sensible ob
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of Mary, Queen of Scots, 172

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of a beautiful woman, not

173.

of Bernard De Rohan, 173.

Description of a fine-looking man, Disquisition, 341.

note, 174.

"of the elephant, 175.

"of natural scenery, 175 and
176.

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how it differs from a Diss Br
tation, 341.

"Ethical, political, scientific,
and literary, 342.

"Ethical, Example of, on "The
strict application of Moral
Rules to the Policy of
States," 342.

Dissertation, 338.

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Example of, on "The Causes
which, independently of
their Merit, have contrib
uted to elevate the Ancient
Classics," 381.

Bowdoin Prize, on the Life
and Character of Dr. John-
son, 381.
"Subjects for, 414.
Distich, or Couplet, 230.
Distinction, 105.

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Divisions of a Subject, 215.
of a Sermon, 392.
Double Pica, note, 312.
Drama, 296.

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