A Rhetorical Grammar: in which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out: With a Complete Analysis of the Voice, Showing the Specific Modifications, and how They May be Applied to Different Species of Sentences, and the Several Figures of Rhetoric. To which are Added, Outlines of Composition, Or, Plain Rules for Writing Orations and Speaking Them in Public

S. Hamilton, 1801 - 392 pages

INTRODUCTION Page	6

The Liquid Sound of T D S and soft C after the Accent	13

Hissing too much the Terminations tion and sion	19

Not sounding Η whereit ought to be sounded and inversely	25

How to pronounce the Possessive thy	32

How to pronounce the Participial Termination ing	38

Reading defined Its Relation to Speaking	41

Practical System of Rhetorical Punctuation	56

Aparithmesas or Enumeration Gradation and Climax	194

Prolepsis	202

Anastrophe	209

Enantiosis	216

Hypotyposis	224

Vision	235

Simile	243

Modulation and Management of the Voice	249

The principal Pause in the Loose Sentence	62

Audible Punctuation	75

The different States of the Voice	82

Inverted Period	90

The definite Question	99

The Commencement	106

The SeriesThe Commencing Series	112

The Question and Answer	118

The Antecedent	124

The Period and the Method of forming a Cadence	131

On Emphatic Force	137

On the different Forces of Emphatic Words	143

Rules for reading Verse	158

Of the Pause or C�sura of Verse	170

On Blank Verse	179

Instructions for the Management of the Voice	253

On Composition	261

On Style Perspicuity and Precision	267

On the Harmony of Sentences	285

The general Characters of StyleDiffuse concise c	292

Directions for forming a proper Style	298

On the Use of Topics or Common Places	306

Of the Distribution of OratoryOf Invention	312

Of external Topics	321

Of the State of a Controversy	332

Of Arguments suited to Demonstrative Discourses	341

Of Arguments suited to Deliberative Discourses	351

Of Arguments suited to Judicial Discourses	360

Of the Character and Address of an Orator	371

Of the Passions	379

Title	A Rhetorical Grammar: in which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out: With a Complete Analysis of the Voice, Showing the Specific Modifications, and how They May be Applied to Different Species of Sentences ...
Author	John Walker
Edition	3
Publisher	S. Hamilton, 1801
Original from	KU Leuven Libraries
Digitized	11 Feb 2026
Length	392 pages

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