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THE

RT of RHETORIC

MADE EASY;

OR, THE

ELEMENTS of ORATORY

Briefly flated, and fitted for the Practice of
The STUDIOUS YOUTH of
Great - Britain and Ireland:

In TWO BOOK S.

The FIRST comprehending the PRINCIPLES of
that excellent ART, conformable to, and fupported by the
AUTHORITY of the most accurate ORATORS and
RHETORICIANS, both ANCIENT and MODERN, viz.

The WHOLE being diftinguished into what is neceflary to be
repeated, and what may be made only Matter of Objersation.
The SECOND containing the SUBSTANCE of
LONGINUS's celebrated TREATISE On the SUBLIME.
In BOTH which all Technical Terms are fully explained,
with their Derivations, and proper Examples applied to demon-
ftrate and illuftrate all the TROPES, FIGURES, and FINE
TURNS, that are to be met with, or imitated, either in the
SCRIPTURES, CLASSICS, or other polite WRITINGS as
well Oratorial as Poctical.

By JOHN HOLMES, Master of the
Publick GRAMMAR SCHOOL, in Holt, Norfolk.

LONDON:

Printed by A. PARKER; and fold by A. BETTESWORTH and C. HITCH,
inPater-nefter-Rew, and the Book fellers in Cambridge, Nerwick, and Dublin.
MDCCXXXIX.

To the WORSHIPFUL

S Prime

SAMUEL SWINFIN, Efq;Warden,

With the other Worthy WARDENS of the Worshipful Company of FISHMONGERS, LONDON, viz.

HUMPHREY SOUTH, Efq;
Mr. JAMES BAGWELL,
Mr. BENJAMIN JOSEPH,
Mr. JOHN NEWMAN,
Mr. JONATHAN BROMLEY,

And to the reft of the GENTLEMEN of the
Court of ASSISTANTS of the faid Company;
Governours of Sir JOHN GRESHAM's
Free Grammar-School at Holt, in Norfolk:

This Treatife of RHETORIC,

OR, THE

ELEMENTS of ORATORY,

For the Compleating of YOUTH in their Grammatical Knowledge, and their further Inftruction in the Excellent Art of SPEAKING WELL and WRITING ELEGANTLY, in their own or either of the Learned LANGUAGES,

Is humbly Inferibed by

YOUR WORSHIPS
Faithful, Obliged, and

Moft Obedient Servant,

J. HOLMES.