CONDUCT OF A DISCOURSE IN ALL ITSPARTS. - INTRODUCTION-DIVISION.NARRATION AND EXPLICATION.
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1 HAVE, in the four preceding Lectures, con-fidered what is peculiar to each of the threegreat fields of Public Speaking, Popular Affem-blies, the Bar, and the Pulpit . I am now to treatof what is common to thejn all; of the conductof a Difcourfe or Oration, in general. Theprevious view which I have given of the diltin-guilhing fpirit and character of different kindsof Public Speaking, was neceffary for the pro-per application of the rules which I am about todeliver; and as I proceed, I lhall farther pointout, how far any of thefe rules may have aparticular refpedt to the Bar, to the Pulpit , orto Popular Courts.
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