ORATION. 
ria treatifes on rhetoric, and is followed by the moderns 
copy them. Dr. owever, though upon the 
hole he approves and commends this. divifion, fomewhat 
deviates from it ; and prefers following that divifion which 
blies an 
diltinct enee that particularly fuits it. This divifion 
ient one. The eloquence of 
ith what the ancients called 
or difpraife of perfons ings, as pa negyrics » inveives, 
genethliaca, sithalamiay Pores euchariftia, cpinicia, congratu- 
lations, and funeral orations. See DEMONSTRATIVE. 
To the deliberative kind belong whatever may become a 
ject of debate, confultation, or advice, by means of per- 
fuahe ae diffuafion, exhortation, and commendation. See DELI- 
“To rile judicial kind belong all fubje&ts Vase ken to 
the fecurity of property, the protection of innocence, the 
maintenance of juftice, and punifhment of cri fee oe accu- 
See each under its 
MATION 
e judi cial is the fame with the elequence of the bar 
empleyed in one ng judges, who have power to ab- 
folve or condem In judicial affairs, both the Grecian 
an yo oe who were defirous i 
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whether they be capital or of a lefs 
** conjectural” fate (fee Coens ce ye 
and w 
confideration of 
the profecuta a e wou ye done it, 
whether he could, 7 whether he didit. Hence arife three 
topics ; from the il, he power, and the figns, or circum- 
ftences: which a ehnee a action. The affe@ions of the 
mind difcover the ¢ui//, fuch as pate an old grudge, a 
defire of revenge, a refentment of a inj yury, a and the hke. 
. pe 
ird cad relates to the 
circumitances, which ies an » accompanied, or fol- 
wed the comm~ffion of the All thef 
when being Jaid ae er they ee on ftrong, ee 
e mi the Roman law upon 
likewife charges the fa@ upon his accufers. 
to the definitive ftate (fee ConTRoV VERSY), the heads of ar- 
gument are much the fame to both parties. For each of 
in his own way, and endeavours to re- 
tency, ae. or neceflity : and the wee is a fubmiffive 
addrefs to the equity and clemency of the court, or party 
offended, for pardon; as sib has done in his oration to 
que the ba aie or that which is 
sid in judicial cafes, the gre of 
e it is not the fpeaker’s bafine to perfuade the 
th 
or uleful, ut to WwW em 
em- 
and 3 
folely to “the underftanding, that his qu ad- 
drefled. te i steeaa at the bar addrefs chenilélves to 
udges, who are perfons generally of age, 
er. oreover, the 
that of ape: affemblies ; ; and for fimilar serie the ju- 
dicial orations of Cicero or Demofthenes are not to be re- 
es. 
ancient judicial sei than it is bec 
q much more than jurifprutencs, was the ftudy of 
thofe who were to plead a Bae accordingly, Cicero 
s fufficient to make a 
might be a good pleade o had never ftudied 
law Befides, the civil and criminal judges, both in 
G d Rome, were commonly much more numerous 
than they are with us, and formed a fort of se sea af- 
mbly. 
