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 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 Romas 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. (Gresk.) 120. De oratoribus Americanis. 121. Periodical literature. 122. De hujus temporis indole. 123. The teacher. 124. De eloquentiæ studio in scholis nostris reglecto. 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 prosvects 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. 148. The prospects of a universal language. 149. On ancient and modern democracy. 150. On Aristocracy. '51. 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 pre paration of this volume, the author makes this general acknowledgment that, 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 llberty 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. "Rules of, 126. on, note, 126. Happy instances of, in severa styles, note, 297. Burletta, 297. an Allegory, 135. Author of Lacon's Remarks Butterfly and Humming Bird, The, Antonomasia, 63. much used by historical writ- Cæsura, proper position of, 234. ers, note, 65. Apheresis, 76. Apologue and Fable, 136. "peculiar (as a rhetorical fig- Cantata, 287. Canzonet, 287. Capital Letters, Rules for the Use of, Colloquy, 324. "Example of a, 327. "Subjects for, 408. Defence of Literary Studies in Men Colon, its meaning and use, 27 and Definition, 105. Compound Sentences, formation of from Simple ones, 58 Deliberative Discussion, 350. "Subjects for, 410. Derivation and Composition of Words, Description of a fine-looking man, Disquisition, 341. note, 174. แ of the elephant, 175. of natural scenery, 175 and Use of Epithets in, note, 175. about dogs, 12. Diction, Poetic, 77. Didactic, Introduction and 300. Diminution, or Liptotes, note, 142. for the Division of a Subject, "for acquiring a Good Style, for revising and correcting [ See for Superscriptions and Form's Discussion, 344. Different Kinds of, as philos- แ 66 a Literary, on "The merits of a Deliberative, on Liberal "Philosophical and Forensic, how it differs from a Disser tation, 341. "Ethical, Example of, on "The Dissertation, 338. Example of, on "The Causes Bowdoin Prize, on the Life Divisions of a Subject, 215. 66 Rules for the construction of Dramatic Composition, kinds of, 296 on Public Station, 362. "Public Opinion," 371. how divided, 231. 359. |