Excerpt from A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism It may be thought by fome, that thefe lectures are much too jbort, and too concifely written, for the purpofe of public infiruelion: but they fhould be apprized, that it was my cullom to write down only the outlines of what I delivered in the olafs that, for the benefit of my pupils, I ufed to attend them provided with mqre copious illuflrationr, and a greater variety of examples; and, befides, always fpent a confiderable part of the time appropriated to every lecture in examiningthem on the fubjeet of the pre ceding lecture, hearing their remarks or objections, and errplaining more dif'tine'tly what they appeared not to have clearly underflood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.