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The examples of antithets here laid down may not, per 

 haps, deserve the place assigned them; but as they were 

 collected in my youth, and are really seeds, not flowers, 

 I was unwilling they should be lost. In this they plainly 

 show a juvenile warmth, that they abound in the moral and 

 demonstrative kind, but touch sparingly upon the delibera 

 tive and judicial. 



A third collection wanting to the apparatus of rhetoric, 

 is what we call lesser forms. And these are a kind of por 

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

 of speech, which may serve indifferently for all subjects; 

 such as prefaces, conclusions, digressions, transitions, etc. 

 For as in building, a good distribution of the frontispiece, 

 staircases, doors, windows, entries, passages, and the like, 

 is not only agreeable but useful; so in speeches, if the ac 

 cessories or under- parts be decently and skilfully contrived 

 and placed, 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 mat 

 ters 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 time therein. 



EXAMPLES OF LESSER FORMS 



A CONCLUSION IN THE DELIBERATIVE 



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

 convenience prevented. 



COROLLARY OF AN EXACT DIVISION 



That all may see I would conceal nothing by silence, nor 

 cloud anything by words. 



A TRANSITION, WITH A CAVEAT 



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

 ourselves the liberty of a retrospection. 



