DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the ninth day of December, A. D. SEAL. 1823, in the forty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, True and Greene, of the said District, have deposited in this Office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric, by Hugh Blair, D. D. Improved by the addition of Appropriate Marginal Questions, numbered to correspond with References in the body of the page, by Nathaniel Greene." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an Act entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical, and other Prints." JOHN W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. ADVERTISEMENT. THIS Edition of the abridgment of BLAIR'S LECTURES on Rhetorick, is offered to the Publick upon what is considered a greatly improved plan, its arrangement being calculated to convey the instruction, contained in this excellent work, more effectually to the mind of the Pupil, with less labour to himself and instructer than any other method now in use. The mode of communicating the ideas of Blair, by practising in Question and Answer, has been found of great utility. This Edition carries that system into very complete operation. The Question, printed on the margin of each page, brings the prominent points directly to the view of the student; and the additional advantage of having the attention guided by a figure of reference in the body of the work, renders the attainment of this useful branch of learning extremely easy. That this method is vastly more convenient than any other now extant, must be evident on the slightest examination, for the whole subject of each page is completely finished within itself. The parts, which require much labour and time of both pupil and instructer, being so completely pointed out by the Question and Reference. Although the Publisher cannot conceive the existence of a single solid objection, yet, it may be pertinent to anticipate what may, possibly, be urged as a fault; namely, that it will make the study too easy. This idea, it is true, applies with force against the use of translations of the Languages taught in our seminaries of learning, |