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juvenile warmtli, that tliey 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, it' 

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

 i:)ostern-doors, outer rooms, back-rooms, and passages of 

 speech, which may serve indifierently for all subjects ; such 

 as prefaces, conclusions, digressions, transitions, &c. For as 

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

 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 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 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 natui-e to spend time 

 therein. 



. EXAMPLES OF LESSER FORMS. 



A CONCLUSION IN THE DELIBERATIVE. 



So the fast fault may he at once amended, and future 

 inconvenience pi-evented. 



COROLLARY OF AN EXACT DIVISION. 



That all may see I loould conceal nothing hy silence, nor 

 cloud anything hy words. 



A TRANSITION, WITH A CAVEAT 



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

 ourselves the liberty of a retrospection. 



A PREPOSSESSION AGAINST AN INVETERATE OPINION. 



/ will let you understand to the full what sprung from the 

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

 raised upon ii. 



And these few examples may serve to show our meaning 

 us to the lesser forms of speech.^ 



•■ Though the ancients may seem to have ])erfected rhetoric, yet the 

 moderns have given it new light. Gerhord Vossius bestowed incrediole 

 pains upon this art, as appears by bis book ** De Natura et Constitu- 



