A SYSTEM OF ORATORY, Delivered in a COURSE OF LECTURES Publicly read at GRESHAM COLLEGE, LONDON: To which is prefixed An INAUGURAL ORATION, By JOHN WARD, D.LL. P.R.G. C. VOL. I. LONDON: Printed for JOHN WARD, in Cornbill, oppofite to the Royal Exchange. M.DCC.LIX. + HE character of the author of this TH work, so well known by his other learned and elaborate writings, would have been fufficient to have recommended it to the public, if he had thought proper to have printed it during his own life; which could not conveniently be done, as he was in the conftant use of it in his lectures. It will therefore be neceffary, for the fatisfaction of the reader, to take notice here, that it was the intention of the author, declared to several of his friends, and evident from the manuscript itself, to be feen at the bookseller's, that these lectures should be published: For which purpose he caused a fair copy of them to be transcribed, after he had from time to time revised them with his usual accuracy, during the space of thirty eight years, in which he most punctually discharged the duties of his Professorship at Gresham College, having been elected into it on the ist of September 1720, and dying on the 17th of October 1758. VOL. I. |