While a tutor at Warrington Academy, the polymath Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) established himself as a leading grammarian and educational theorist, producing the influential Rudiments of English Grammar (1761) and A Course of Lectures on the Theory of Language and Universal Grammar (1762), both of which are reissued in this series. In 1762 he also delivered these lectures on rhetorical theory, arguing that the purpose of rhetoric is moral formation. Priestley was deeply influenced by associationism, a theory of mind developed by John Locke and David Hartley. This claims that all complex ideas…mehr
While a tutor at Warrington Academy, the polymath Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) established himself as a leading grammarian and educational theorist, producing the influential Rudiments of English Grammar (1761) and A Course of Lectures on the Theory of Language and Universal Grammar (1762), both of which are reissued in this series. In 1762 he also delivered these lectures on rhetorical theory, arguing that the purpose of rhetoric is moral formation. Priestley was deeply influenced by associationism, a theory of mind developed by John Locke and David Hartley. This claims that all complex ideas develop from simple ones, which arise purely from sensory impressions. The orator's role, then, is to form the right associations between impressions and ideas in a listener's mind. Informed by this theory, these thirty-five lectures re-evaluate the classical rhetorical components of topic, method and style. First published in 1777, the work is reissued here in its 1781 Dublin printing.
English scientist, theologian, and political theorist Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) made numerous contributions to chemistry, physics, and philosophy. Priestley, who was raised in Birstall, West Yorkshire, attended local schools before going to Daventry Academy, where he became very interested in natural philosophy. Priestley made significant scientific advances. His greatest-known distxtery, made in 1774, was oxygen, which he dubbed "dephlogisticated air." His investigations into gases and their characteristics, which are detailed in "Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air," greatly enhanced our knowledge of chemistry. Priestley also studied nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide, among other gases. In addition to his scientific interests, Priestley was a prolific writer on theological and political topics as well as a dissident clergyman. He received criticism for his Unitarian beliefs and his perceived radical religious ideas. Priestley was a liberal and democratic idealist whose political writings shaped the early American history.
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Dedication Preface Part I: 1. The introduction 2. Of the nature and use of topics 3. Of universal topics 4. Of particular topics 5. Of amplification Part II: 6. Of method in narrative discourses 7. Of method in argumentative discourses 8. Of the several parts of a proper demonstration 9. Of the analytical method 10. Of the method of Mr Hume's inquiry into the principles of morals, etc. Part III: 11. Of taste 12. What affects the passions, judgment, and imagination 13. Of the tendency of strong emotions to produce belief 14. Of the influence of the passions on each other 15. Of forms of address adapted to gain belief 16. Of objections, etc. 17. Of the pleasures of imagination 18. A general account of the pleasure we receive from objects 19. Of novelty 20. Of the sublime 21. Of the pleasure we receive from uniformity, and variety 22. Of the nature of metaphors 23. Rules for the use of metaphors 24. Of contrast 25. Of burlesque etc. 26. Of riddles, puns, etc. 27. Of metoymy 28. Of the hyperbole and bombast 29. Of personification 30. Of imitation 31. Of climax 32. Of perspicuity in style 33. Of the resemblance between sound and sense 34. Of harmony in verse 35. Of harmony in prose.
Dedication Preface Part I: 1. The introduction 2. Of the nature and use of topics 3. Of universal topics 4. Of particular topics 5. Of amplification Part II: 6. Of method in narrative discourses 7. Of method in argumentative discourses 8. Of the several parts of a proper demonstration 9. Of the analytical method 10. Of the method of Mr Hume's inquiry into the principles of morals, etc. Part III: 11. Of taste 12. What affects the passions, judgment, and imagination 13. Of the tendency of strong emotions to produce belief 14. Of the influence of the passions on each other 15. Of forms of address adapted to gain belief 16. Of objections, etc. 17. Of the pleasures of imagination 18. A general account of the pleasure we receive from objects 19. Of novelty 20. Of the sublime 21. Of the pleasure we receive from uniformity, and variety 22. Of the nature of metaphors 23. Rules for the use of metaphors 24. Of contrast 25. Of burlesque etc. 26. Of riddles, puns, etc. 27. Of metoymy 28. Of the hyperbole and bombast 29. Of personification 30. Of imitation 31. Of climax 32. Of perspicuity in style 33. Of the resemblance between sound and sense 34. Of harmony in verse 35. Of harmony in prose.
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