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du &, is a determination how we {hall act. Pig the oppor- 
tunity is prefent, the pairwnaas to is immediately 
follow ed by the action; or o erwife, when it is ata ae 
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fomething _ we believe fhall then be 
ftriGly and erly a determination of will, 
deecraaeion to do it 1 7 oad 
agrees to it. See Vouition. 
DELIBERATIVE, i is oe to that ui or ee 
of Rhetoric alae ed i a thin ng, 0 vincing a 
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Every defi ae of volition 
when the orators eee the people. 
“he deliberative < rations conftitute one of the three kinds 
into which the ancients divided all a 3 the other two 
are the denoniratine 0 and judicial, cop 
berative was t — ife or to difluade 5 raid this 
The fub- 
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hing itfelf under confidera- 
in uft have been 
The early practice of this mode 
of ae ahaa iy ae facred pie where we find, that 
n Mofe ordered upon mbafly - Egypt, he 
auld have excaled himfelf for want a eloquence. (Exod. 
“jv. 10 Homer (Il. 8. 87.) ona ‘oe Greeks a 
‘the fiege of Troy, as meer like a eight of bees to vn 
their generals harangue Nor is this {pecies of ora- 
tory lefs confpicuous for i Pa afefulnefe to mankind, than for 
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kind comprehend things public or private, facred or civil 
and their chief end is either profit or intereft ; and as 
is truly profitable that is not in fome refpedt or other good, 
what Js et | pee as well as juft and honourable, 
is the end her The principal heads of this kind 
of deliberative Ateourfes, deducible from the nature and pro- 
perties of the fubjeé& under confideration, are fuc follow. 
n fuch difcourfes, 
an argument that has great sfacnes on man- 
Kind in general. Quintilian, now: obferves that pleafure — 
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ought not to. be - propofed as a a motive of action in ferions 
commend fumething that is ufefui. aa Cicero (Pro Archia, 
think them an 
all aves, nor all places; but thefe ftud 
delight old age, adorn profperity, afford a refuge and com- 
fort in adverfity, divert usat home, ar are no hindrance abroad, 
fleep, travel, and retire with us in the country.” oftt 
or advantage, when it refpects things truly valuable, is allo 
a very juftand laudable motive. Honour will fupply another 
ad aaa that will have great influence in a generous 
min ardour. Virgil ( Ain. 1. ii, v. 289.) has very 
beautifully defcribed Hethor re ghoft appearing to Aineas, in ~ 
night when Troy was teas and advifiog him to co 
from this motive pthon 
*©O goddefs-born, “= by timely flight 
The flames and horrors of this pee night. 
The foes already have poffefs’d wall, 
Troy nods from high, and t nas - her fall. 
Erk is paid to Priam’s royal name ; 
ore than enough to duty and to fame. 
If by a mortal’s hand my father’s threne 
Could be defended, ’twas by mine alone.” 
It is poflible, however, that the expediency of under. 
g any thing which, in itfelf confidered, appears be 
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that he had himfelf defeated eee in Oo — he fe 
with them in diss ets (Juftin, lib. x Co &. 
ed on babe wil be fil! more 
e Cicero, after the fatal battle at 
Pharfalia, diffluades coe a Pompey’s sail with whom he 
was engaged, from continuing the war any longer againft 
efar; becaufe it was highly piel: after fuch a defeat, 
by nee their main ftrength was shee that they fhould 
be able tand ~ better SS 
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the poffibility and probability of an men “tal in tupplying: 
{ulicient motives oe the Poe tcwran of it t, = a vie : 
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oppofing Mark Anton 
-affumed an arbitrary power) by reprefenting to them, that his 
circumftances were then defperate, and that he might eafily. 
be vanquifhed. gain the plea of meceffity. will give new 
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them, that * the confideration befre them was n what- 
circumftances they fhould live ; but whether they fhould live 
at all, or = with ignominy and difgrace.”? To thefe heads 
may be added the confideration of the event; which in fome © 
cafes carries oS tan with it. 
ic n his oration for the Manilian law, ufes three of 
the arcane above fated : reafoning from the ae of 
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