Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres. A new edition

Beschreibung

8vo, pp. xi, [1], 679, [1]; original drab paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; small cracks starting at the extremities, otherwise, very good and sound. Hugh Blair (1718-1800) the famed Scots divine and professor of rhetoric was very successful with this book which "could boast ten editions in England between 1783 and 1806, not to mention the American reissues and one French (1797), one Italian (1801), and one Spanish (1816) version" (Aarsleff). He was a friend of Hume and Adam Smith, the latter of whose lectures inspired Blair in this endeavor. Alston calls it a " comprehensive discussion of rhetoric and style with wide-ranging comments on language in general, and English in particular.".

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Titel

Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres. A new edition

Verlag

Baynes and Son, and Walker and Co., Paternoster Row, and to be had of all Booksellers, London

Erscheinungsjahr

1823

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• Language
• English Literature