Style and Action.— Action not yet an Art.-In Rhetoric, Action preferred to Style, and Style to Thought.- Causes of these Errors. The perfection of Style, where- in it consists. Euripides one of its best models. — Ordi- nary and appropriate Terms. - Plain and Primitive Ones. - Well chosen Metaphors. The frigid and nauseous consists. Amplification and Compression.-Impassioned Oratory. Harmony, how to be attained. Style linked or periodic. Antithesis. Urbanity and Elegance, how attained. Energy and Animation. - Compositions to be read and to be rehearsed or spoken. Their dif Aristotle's Rhetoric, a model for philosophical treatises on the Arts Compared with other works on that subject. - Longinus on the Sublime- His character and merits - How explained by modern Philosophers. - Fine writ- ing, according to Aristotle According to Longinus and his followers. - Mr. Knight's Source of the Sublime considered. Objections to the doctrine of dramatic delusion Answered. Objection to Aristotle's rule concerning the dramatic characters of Women — An- swered. The nature and end of Tragedy. — Why Aristotle preferred Tragedy to Epic Poetry.- Con- clusion. - - Page ERRATA. 5. line 2. from bottom, read "either" and "its." 23. line 2. in note, read "princeps tenebrarum," and line 3. read "Geryon et bestia." 55. line 4. for "proposition," read "propositions." 91. line 8. from the bottom, for "belongs" read "belong." 256. line 17. from bottom, dele the comma, and for "that" read "than." 391. middle, for "discoure" read "discourse." 401. after the note, insert, " Vid. Poetic, cap. xxii. edit. Buhle." Upper Seymour Street, NEW EDITIONS OF THE FOLLOWING WORKS BY DR. GILLIES, HAVE BEEN LATELY PUBLISHED BY T. CADELL, STRAND, LONDON. ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS AND POLITICS; comprising his Practical Philosophy. Translated from the Greek. Illustrated by Introductions and Notes; the Critical History of his Life, and a New Analysis of his Speculative Works. 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Motives to this Work.-Growing degeneracy of Literature. -State of public Criticism. — Aristotle's Rhetoric.— Its importance as a work of taste, criticism, and history. -Analysis thereof.-Its connection with his other writings.- General diffusion of these writings.-History of their reception in Asia and in Europe. - Fanciful appendages joined to them.—Corrupted by the Popish Scholastics.-Mistaken and vilified by the first Reformers. - Subsequent objections made to them. These objections answered.-The difficulties of the Greek text obviated. Aristotle's consistency and accuracy vindicated. I. Work. ABOVE thirty years ago, being in company with CHA P. men of learning and knowledge of the world, decided enemies to what has been called the Occasion new or French philosophy, they regretted that of this works well calculated to counteract this speculative folly, which had then begun to mount into madness,' should not be brought before the public in a shape less repulsive than that in which Insanientis sapientiæ. B CHAP. they had hitherto appeared. They alluded to I. the ethics and politics of Aristotle, of which we had been speaking, and of which Locke, in his letter to King, says, "to proceed orderly in politics, the foundation should be laid in inquiring into the nature and ground of civil society, and how it is formed into different models of government, and what are the several species of it. Aristotle is allowed to be a master of this science." All present pronounced the encomium to be just, but all doubted the possibility of rendering the Greek works in question, popular, or even readable in English: I was inclined, however, to make the experiment, and for a reason that appeared to myself of considerable weight. At a time when so many random opinions were afloat, originating in transient but headstrong passions, there would be much propriety, at least, in interposing the sentiments of a great master of reason, widely remote both in time and place, from the concerns and the feelings of the present day. The remark made an impression; and I was encouraged to undertake an useful and arduous, rather than a very promising task. I began with the "Politics," but delayed printing my translation of it, till I had finished that of the ethics; because, in Aristotle, the two subjects are inseparably connected, and treated simultaneously as integral parts of one and the same work. In this delay, I was sensible of sacrificing a certain portion of popularity; but |