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Introduction and Appendir,

EXPLAINING ITS RELATION TO HIS EXACT PHILOSOPHY,

AND VINDICATING THAT PHILOSOPHY, BY PROOFS THAT ALL DEPARTURES
FROM IT HAVE BEEN DEVIATIONS INTO ERROR.

BY JOHN GILLIES, LL.D.

F.R.S. & S.A. LOND. F.R.S. EDINB.

SOC. INSTIT. PARIS, ET ACAD. REGIÆ GOTTING. CORRESP.; AND
HISTORIOGRAPHER TO HIS MAJESTY FOR SCOTLAND.

Magna animi contentio adhibenda est in explicando Aristotele.

CICERO Fragment. Philosoph.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND;

AND W. BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH.

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Deliberative and Judicial Eloquence; on what their respect-

ive success depends. The three requisites to Persuasion,

independently of Argument. Transition to the Doctrine

of the Passions. Anger; Its Definition Causes

Its natural Subjects and Objects. Love and Hatred.-

Fear. Shame. - Pity. - Indignation. - Envy. - Emu-

lation. Passions and Characters, as modified by Age-

Birth Riches - Power; and their contraries. The

Sources of Argument respectively appropriate to the

three kinds of Oratory. The Topics common to all the

three kinds :- - 1. The Topic derived from the nature

of contraries; 2. From that of conjugate terms;

3. From relatives; 4. A fortiori;-5. Parity of reason;

-6. From consistency in will and conduct; -7. Ad

hominem ; - 8. From definition; -9. From diversity of

signification.-10. From division. 11. From accumu-

lation of instances; - 12. From precedent; 13. From

resolution of the genus into its several species;

14. From consequences; - 15. From the consequents of

contraries. — 16. From variance in the opinions of men,

expressed and secret; - 17. From analogy; - 18. From

identifying things with their consequences; 19. From

inconsistency with previous resolutions;-20. From sub-

stituting a probable motive for the real cause ; - 21. From

the general causes impelling all human action;

22. From improbability itself; - 23. From incongruity;

24. From explaining false appearances; - 25. From

the improbability of the cause to that of the effect;

26. From the contrast of designs; 27. From incon-

sistency with former actions;-28. From names. Ar-

guments less convincing than Replies; and why. The

most impressive are those that are natural, but not obvious.

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