ABSTRACTNESS of words, 177.
Accusations in debate, 137.
Adverbs, position of, 182.
Esthetics, its relation to rhetoric,
38.

Age, as a modifier of mind, 63.
Allegory, forms allied to, 223.
laws of, 224.
nature of, 222.

Ambiguity from position, 182.
Analogues, 169.

Analogy, argument from, 125.
Analysis, value of, 201, 93.
Antithesis, laws of, 240.

natural form of, 239.

nature of, 238.

Apostrophe, 233.

Arguments, a priori, 110.

arrangement of, 181.
divisions of, 107.
from resemblance, 120.
from sign, 113.
rhetorical use of, 107.

use of different classes, 180.
Arrangement of arguments, 131.
Art, restrictions of formal, 26.
Audience, relation of speaker to,
68.

Authority, as an argument, 118.
Authority in debate, 188.

BALANCED sentences, 198.

Barbarism, 157.

Beauty, relation of to rhetoric, 5.
Blair's treatment of rhetoric, 3.

CAUSE, argument from, 110.

proof of, 115.

Causal words, ambiguity of, 118
Chances, calculation of, 114.
Circumlocution, 176.

Clearness, 6.

too great, 186.

Climax, 240.

in sound and sense, 260.

Collateral ideas, 194.

Comprehension, 96.

Concession in debate, 127.

Confirmation, 130.

Consonants, cumulation of, 247.
Contiguity, figures founded on

225.

Contrast, essentials of a, 288.
figures founded on, 288.
the theory of, 237.

DEFINITION, kinds of, 98.
laws of, 99.

nature of, 97.
Description, kinds of, 76.

laws of, 75.

nature of, 75.

Development of an idea, 198, 199.
Diction, 155.

Discourse, essential elements of

19.

Sentences, loose, 197.

structure of, 254.

periodic, 19.

Sentiments, scheme of, 52

Sign, argument from, 113.
Simile, kinds of, 206.

laws of, 209.

Speaker, relation of to audience, 68
Specific words, 164.

Squinting construction, 182, 184.
Style, excellence of relative, 33.
general law of, 147.
of legal acts, 152.

national types of, 152.
Suggestiveness, 193.

Summary, value of in history, 94.
Synecdoche, 227.

TASTE, relation of to rhetoric, 5.
Tautology, 174.

Tautophony, 248.

Testimony, 115.

Theme, necessity of, 201.

Theremin's treatment of rhetoric,3.
Thought, its relation to language,

19.

laws of, 45.

UNITY of idea, 195.

of structure, 196

Use law of, 159.

WHATELY's treatmentof rhetoric,3
Witnesses, adverse, 117.

character of, 116.

concurrent, 116.
number of, 116.
Words, abstract, 177.

associations of, 171.

effect of on thoughts, 171.
effect of on sensibilities, 244.
emphatic, 177.
familiarity of, 155.

formation of new, 159.

grammatical relations of, 19
implication of, 171.

inclusion of, 163.

length of, 160.

modifying effect of, 181.

number of, 173.

position of, 177.

Saxon, 162.