U62 ADVANCEMENT OP LEAKNINQ. [BOOK VI 



juvenile warmth, that they abound in the moral and demon 

 strative kind, but touch sparingly upon the deliberative and 

 judicial. 



A third collection wanting to the apparatus of rhetoric, is 

 what we call lesser forms. And these are a kind of portals, 

 postern-doors, outer rooms, back-rooms, and passages of 

 speech, which may serve indifferently for all subjects ; such 

 as prefaces, conclusions, digressions, transitions, &amp;lt;fec. For ;is 

 in building, a good distribution of the frontispiece, stah-- 

 cases, doors, windows, entries, passages, and the like, is not 

 only agreeable but useful ; so in speeches, if the accessories 

 or under-parts be decently and skilfully contrived and place 1, 

 they are of great ornament and service to the whole structure 

 of the discourse. Of these forms, we will just propose one 

 example or two ; for though they are matters of no small 

 use, yet because here we add nothing of our own, and only 

 take naked forms from Demosthenes, Cicero, or other select 

 authors, they may seem of too trivial a nature to spend tin e 

 therein. 



EXAMPLES OF LESSER FORMS. 



A CONCLUSION IN THE DELIBERATIVE. 



So the past fault may be at once amended, and future 

 inconvenience prevented. 



COROLLARY OP AN EXACT DIVISION. 



That all may see I would conceal nothing by silence, nt r 

 cloud anything by words. 



A TRANSITION, WITH A CAVEAT 



But let us leave the subject fir the present, still reserving to 

 ourselves the liberty of a retrospection. 



A PREPOSSESSION AGAINST AN INVETERATE OPINION. 



/ ivill let you understand to the full what sprung from tie 

 thing itself, what error has tacked to it, and what envy has 

 raised upon it. 



And these few examples may serve to show our meaning 

 us to the lesser forms of speech. 1 



r Though the ancients may seem to have j&amp;gt;erfected rhetoric, yet the 

 moderns have given it new light. Gerhord Vossius bestowed incrediula 

 pains upon this art, as appears by his book &quot; De Natura et Constiti 



