About this book
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THE
HANDBOOK OF ORATORY
A CYCLOPEDIA
OF AUTHORITIES ON ORATORY AS AN ART AND OF CELE-
BRATED PASSAGES FROM THE BEST ORATIONS
CICERO, Marcus TULLIUS
The Parts of an Oration
Order and Arrangement of an Oration
Wit and Humor in Oratory
Rhythm and the Harmonies of Language
Embellishing the Oration
A Fundamental Rule
The Art of Verdict-Getting
How to Cultivate the Memory
Action and Delivery
6.35-6.95 A. D.
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QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius
The Secret of the Highest Eloquence
On Natural Oratory
Oratory Manifestly an Art
The Attic and Ciceronian Schools
On the Eloquence of Homer, Virgil, and Other Poets
Oratory and Literature
On Correct Style in Public Speaking
The Five Divisions of Oratorical Art
The Three Kinds of Oratory
On Declamation
How to Cultivate Good Delivery
The Oratory of the Bar
The Five Divisions of an Oration
The Exordium — How to Begin a Speech
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113
QUINTILIAN, MArcus Fabius - Continued:
Second Part of a Speech — The Statement of Facts
Digressions in Speaking
Proposition, Partition, and Argument
How to Close a Speech – The Peroration
The Art of Remembering in Oratory
EPICTETUS
C. 50 A. D.-(?)
On the Power of Speaking
Tacitus, CORNELIUS
6.556.117 A, D.
The Rewards of Oratory
On the Education of an Orator
Oratory and the Genius of the Age
PLINY, THE YOUNGER
62-113 A. D.
The Eloquence of the Bar
GeLLIUS, AULUS
C. 130-180 A. D.
The Three Kinds of Eloquence
LONGINUS
C. 210-6. 273 A. D.
Sublimities in Eloquence
The Style of Demosthenes
MONTAIGNE, MICHEL EYQUEM DE
1533-1592
A Consideration upon Cicero
Bacon, Francis
1561-1626
Of Discourse
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124
130
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135
HOBBES, THOMAS
1588-1679
Analysis and Synopsis of Aristotle's “Rhetoric »
I. Of the Original of Elocution and Pronunciation
II. Of the Choice of Words and Epithets
III. Of the Things that Make an Oration Flat
IV. Of a Similitude
V. Of the Purity of Language
VI. Of the Amplitude and Tenuity of Language
VII. Of the Convenience or Decency of Elocution
VIII. Of Two Sorts of Styles
IX. Of Those Things that Grace an Oration, and Make It
Delightful
X. In What Manner an Oration Is Graced by the Things
Aforesaid
XI. Of the Difference between the Style to Be Used in
Writing and the Style to Be Used in Pleading
XII. Of the Parts of an Oration, and Their Order
XIII. Of the Proem
XIV. Places of Crimination and Purgation
XV. Of the Narration
XVI. Of Proof, or Confirmation and Refutation
XVII. Of Interrogations, Answers, and Jests
XVIII. Of the Peroration
