On the Nature and Utility of Eloquence. 3 1 3 



chufe to meniion this difference among them, 

 as an apology for prefuming to go over the 

 ground which fuch men have trodden. Since 

 all cannot be right where all difagree, the au- 

 thority of one ferves to counterbalance that of 

 another; and thus a man may be allowed to 

 differ from any of them, without dreading the 

 imputation of vanity. Ariftotle fays it is the 

 office of rhetoric 



" O'u TO IIEISAI a'KKa, to i^siv t« UTra^xovla IIIGANA 

 iie^thaalov.'^ Rhet. lib. I. C. i. 



" Officium autem ejus facultatis videtur effe, 

 dicere appofite ad perfuadendum." Cicero de 

 Invcn. lib. I, S. 5. 



'' Nihil enim eft eloquentia, nifi copiofe lo- 

 quens fapientia." Cicero Orat. Part. S. 23. 



" Scientia bene dicendi." Quin. lib. II. 

 cap. 15. 



" Eft igitur frequentiffintus finis rhetorices vis 

 '' perfuadendi. Haec opinio originem duxit ab 

 ''JJocrate: apud Platonem quoque idem fere di- 

 " cit." Quin. lib. II. cap. 15. 



" L'EIoquence eft le talent d.'imprimer avec 

 ^ '« force, et de faire paffer avec rapidite, dans I'ame 

 ■-** des autres le fentiment profond dont on eftpene- 

 V' tre." D'Alembert fur I'Elocution Oratoire. 

 H *' Oratory is the natural faculty of fpeech 

 ■" improved by art." Dr. Preftley's Ledures 

 ^■on Oratory and Criticifm. 



