The Arts of Logick and Rhetorick, Illustrated by Examples taken out of the best Authors, Antient and Modern, In all the Polite Languages. Interpreted and Explain’d By that Learned and Judicious Critick…To which are added Parallel Quotations Out of the Most Eminent English Authors in Verse and Prose: Wherein the like Observations are made on their Beauties and Blemishes in all the various Kinds of Thought and Expression...
London: John Clark and Richard Hett...[et al.], 1728. First edition of this second English translation of Bouhours’ important book. As Howell notes in Eighteenth-Century British Logic and Rhetoric, this is really more of a paraphrase of Bouhours, with added references to English writers, and as such, is almost a new.....