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• catalog contributor b3939602.
• catalog created "1883.".
• catalog date "1883".
• catalog date "1883.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1883.".
• catalog description "Lecture I -- Introduction -- Style defined -- Its nomenclature -- Classification of qualities -- Purity of style -- Its definition -- Its standards -- Restrictions upon usage -- National authority -- Present authority -- Reputable authority -- Lecture II. Purity of style (cont'd) -- Its violations, by the use of the obsolete -- When do words become obsolete? -- Obsolescent words -- The obsolete in poetry, in prayer, in Homiletic appeals -- Novelties in style -- Excursus on English dictionaries -- New words coined facetiously -- Compound words -- New coinage in the pulpit -- Lecture III -- Purity of style (cont'd) -- New coinage a necessity -- Principles which should regulate it -- Importations from foreign language -- Often caused by pedantry, by undue regard for etymology -- The composite structure of the English tongue -- Provincialisms, when good English -- Technical and clannish words -- The style of the pulpit infected by them -- The Puritan dialect -- The necessity of some technicalities -- Vulgarisms -- Lecture IV -- Purity of style (cont'd) -- Reasons for its cultivation -- Testimony of literary authority -- Tributary to perspicuity -- To Force -- Superiority of pure English for religious discourse -- Excursus on the destiny of the English language -- Lecture V -- Purity of style (concluded) -- Reasons for cultivating it (cont'd) -- Danger that the English language will be corrupted in this country by Republican influence, by extent of territory, by the multitude of emigrant nationalities -- The clergy a standard to the people -- A taste for purity of style fundamental to thorough scholarship -- Means of acquiring purity and style -- Classic conversation -- Classic authorship -- Use of treatises on language -- Habits of composing".
• catalog description "Lecture VI -- Precision of style; its definition -- Its violations from by the improper use or omission of single words by a confused use of literal and figurative words, by confounding synonyms, by defect in the number of words -- Excess of conciseness -- Redundant style -- Looseness in construction -- Lecture VII -- Causes of the formation of a loose style -- Indiscriminate thinking -- Chaotic discussion -- Excessive care for expression -- Language -- What is involved in the command of language? -- How can it be acquired? -- Uncritical admiration of loose writers -- Indiscriminate dependence on dictionaries -- Disproportion in extemporaneous speaking -- Lecture VIII. The inducements to the cultivation of precision of style by public speakers -- It is neither pedantic nor unpractical -- Its tribute to other qualities, to clearness, to force, to elegance, to ingenuousness -- Its independent virtue -- The popular taste for it -- Figurative forms of it -- The special need of it in religious discourse -- Excursus, the decline of positive dialect in the expression of nominal Christianity -- Lecture IX -- Perspicuity of style -- Its foundation in clearness of thought -- Obscurity from absence of thought, from vagueness of thought, from the affectation of profound thought, from real profoundness of thought; from familiarity with thought, from rapidity in the succession of thought".
• catalog description "Lecture X -- Perspicuity of style as related to the use of imagery -- Incongruous imagery -- Mixed imagery -- Learned imagery -- Excess of imagery -- Absence of imagery -- Perspicuity as related to the words of a discourse -- Words technical to religious usage -- Excess of words not Saxon -- Ambiguous words -- General and abstract words -- Excess in number of words -- Deficiency in number of words -- Lecture XI -- Perspicuity of construction -- The arrangement of pronouns and their antecedents, of adjectives and adverbs, of qualifying clauses, of emphatic clauses, of ellipsis, of parenthesis, of the anacoluthon, of the combination of irrelevant materials -- Lecture XII -- Excursus, the intellectuality of the pulpit -- The principles which should regulate it -- Its relation to the Scriptures, to the intellectual cravings of a Christianized people, to emotional excitements, to the popular desire for a system of faith, to the peculiar awakening of the age, to the strength of infidelity, to external protective authority, to the intellectual dignity of the work of the Holy Ghost, corollaries -- Lecture XIII -- Energy of style -- Its Definition -- Its foundation in thought, in enthusiasm of composition, in composing with an object in view -- Directness of discourse -- Excursus, what is the philosophy of the success of direct preaching? -- Individuality of moral influence -- Reputation with the public vs. power with individuals".
• catalog description "Lecture XIV -- Energy of style founded in self-possession -- Intemperate strength illustrated -- Excursus on the preaching of eternal retribution -- The early English pulpit on retribution -- The still power in preaching retribution -- Elocution in preaching retribution -- The comminatory preaching of Christ -- Second excursus on the use of the biblical emblems of retribution -- No others true to the facts -- The need of them by modern mind -- Not originated for transient use -- Lecture XV -- Third excursus -- Preaching the doctrine of sin -- The theory of depravity -- Organized forms of sin -- Description of individual guilt -- Reproofs of Christian inconsistencies -- Ascetic Physiognomy -- Confessions of sin -- Theatrical taste vs. Christian experience -- Energy promoted by literal and figurative language -- A Saxon vocabulary -- Specific words -- Short words -- Onomatopoetic words -- Conciseness -- Tautology -- Verboseness -- Lecture XVI -- Energy as promoted by literal and figurative speech (cont'd) -- Conciseness not always forcible -- Energy of construction -- Emphatic words in empathic places -- The conjunctive beginning -- The periodic structure -- Energy as promoted by Rhetorical figure -- Climax -- Antithesis -- Interrogation -- Colloquy -- Hyperbole -- Irony -- Exclamation -- Vision -- Apostrophe -- Soliloquy".
• catalog description "Lecture XVII -- Elegance of style dependent on delicacy of thought -- Feminine qualities of truth -- Prejudices against them -- Relation of elegance to ornament -- Offenses against delicacy of thought -- The chief means of cultivating elegance -- Dependent on delicacy of expression -- Offenses, in vocabulary, in constructions, in imagery -- Influence of a study of the Scriptures -- Luxuriousness of taste -- Decline of national literatures -- Lecture XVIII -- Elegance of style dependent on vividness, distinctness of thought, sensitiveness of feeling, originality of thought, simplicity of language -- Excursus, the style of Addison and his place in English literature -- Elegance dependent on Variety -- Versatility of thought -- Variety of the Scriptures -- Variety of construction -- Variety of illustration -- Lecture XIX -- Variety of style (cont'd) -- Variety of delivery -- Elegance as dependent on harmony -- Truthfulness of discourse -- Unity of discourse -- Fitness of discourse to time, place, circumstance, and character -- Propriety in appeals -- Euphony of language, what constitutes it, how can it be acquired? -- Naturalness of style -- Definition -- How manifested to the cognizance of good taste -- Fitness of style to subject -- Fitness of style to the relations of hearers -- Fitness of style to the relations of the speaker -- Fitness to oral discourse -- Means of acquiring a natural style -- Mastery of subjects -- Self forgetfulness in composing -- Confidence in truth -- Practice in composing .".
• catalog extent "xi, 389 p.".
• catalog hasFormat "English style in public discourse with special reference to the usages of the pulpit.".
• catalog isFormatOf "English style in public discourse with special reference to the usages of the pulpit.".
• catalog issued "1883".
• catalog issued "1883.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York, C. Scribner's sons,".
• catalog relation "English style in public discourse with special reference to the usages of the pulpit.".
• catalog subject "English language Style.".
• catalog subject "PE1408 .P48".
• catalog tableOfContents "Lecture I -- Introduction -- Style defined -- Its nomenclature -- Classification of qualities -- Purity of style -- Its definition -- Its standards -- Restrictions upon usage -- National authority -- Present authority -- Reputable authority -- Lecture II. Purity of style (cont'd) -- Its violations, by the use of the obsolete -- When do words become obsolete? -- Obsolescent words -- The obsolete in poetry, in prayer, in Homiletic appeals -- Novelties in style -- Excursus on English dictionaries -- New words coined facetiously -- Compound words -- New coinage in the pulpit -- Lecture III -- Purity of style (cont'd) -- New coinage a necessity -- Principles which should regulate it -- Importations from foreign language -- Often caused by pedantry, by undue regard for etymology -- The composite structure of the English tongue -- Provincialisms, when good English -- Technical and clannish words -- The style of the pulpit infected by them -- The Puritan dialect -- The necessity of some technicalities -- Vulgarisms -- Lecture IV -- Purity of style (cont'd) -- Reasons for its cultivation -- Testimony of literary authority -- Tributary to perspicuity -- To Force -- Superiority of pure English for religious discourse -- Excursus on the destiny of the English language -- Lecture V -- Purity of style (concluded) -- Reasons for cultivating it (cont'd) -- Danger that the English language will be corrupted in this country by Republican influence, by extent of territory, by the multitude of emigrant nationalities -- The clergy a standard to the people -- A taste for purity of style fundamental to thorough scholarship -- Means of acquiring purity and style -- Classic conversation -- Classic authorship -- Use of treatises on language -- Habits of composing".
• catalog tableOfContents "Lecture VI -- Precision of style; its definition -- Its violations from by the improper use or omission of single words by a confused use of literal and figurative words, by confounding synonyms, by defect in the number of words -- Excess of conciseness -- Redundant style -- Looseness in construction -- Lecture VII -- Causes of the formation of a loose style -- Indiscriminate thinking -- Chaotic discussion -- Excessive care for expression -- Language -- What is involved in the command of language? -- How can it be acquired? -- Uncritical admiration of loose writers -- Indiscriminate dependence on dictionaries -- Disproportion in extemporaneous speaking -- Lecture VIII. The inducements to the cultivation of precision of style by public speakers -- It is neither pedantic nor unpractical -- Its tribute to other qualities, to clearness, to force, to elegance, to ingenuousness -- Its independent virtue -- The popular taste for it -- Figurative forms of it -- The special need of it in religious discourse -- Excursus, the decline of positive dialect in the expression of nominal Christianity -- Lecture IX -- Perspicuity of style -- Its foundation in clearness of thought -- Obscurity from absence of thought, from vagueness of thought, from the affectation of profound thought, from real profoundness of thought; from familiarity with thought, from rapidity in the succession of thought".
• catalog tableOfContents "Lecture X -- Perspicuity of style as related to the use of imagery -- Incongruous imagery -- Mixed imagery -- Learned imagery -- Excess of imagery -- Absence of imagery -- Perspicuity as related to the words of a discourse -- Words technical to religious usage -- Excess of words not Saxon -- Ambiguous words -- General and abstract words -- Excess in number of words -- Deficiency in number of words -- Lecture XI -- Perspicuity of construction -- The arrangement of pronouns and their antecedents, of adjectives and adverbs, of qualifying clauses, of emphatic clauses, of ellipsis, of parenthesis, of the anacoluthon, of the combination of irrelevant materials -- Lecture XII -- Excursus, the intellectuality of the pulpit -- The principles which should regulate it -- Its relation to the Scriptures, to the intellectual cravings of a Christianized people, to emotional excitements, to the popular desire for a system of faith, to the peculiar awakening of the age, to the strength of infidelity, to external protective authority, to the intellectual dignity of the work of the Holy Ghost, corollaries -- Lecture XIII -- Energy of style -- Its Definition -- Its foundation in thought, in enthusiasm of composition, in composing with an object in view -- Directness of discourse -- Excursus, what is the philosophy of the success of direct preaching? -- Individuality of moral influence -- Reputation with the public vs. power with individuals".
• catalog tableOfContents "Lecture XIV -- Energy of style founded in self-possession -- Intemperate strength illustrated -- Excursus on the preaching of eternal retribution -- The early English pulpit on retribution -- The still power in preaching retribution -- Elocution in preaching retribution -- The comminatory preaching of Christ -- Second excursus on the use of the biblical emblems of retribution -- No others true to the facts -- The need of them by modern mind -- Not originated for transient use -- Lecture XV -- Third excursus -- Preaching the doctrine of sin -- The theory of depravity -- Organized forms of sin -- Description of individual guilt -- Reproofs of Christian inconsistencies -- Ascetic Physiognomy -- Confessions of sin -- Theatrical taste vs. Christian experience -- Energy promoted by literal and figurative language -- A Saxon vocabulary -- Specific words -- Short words -- Onomatopoetic words -- Conciseness -- Tautology -- Verboseness -- Lecture XVI -- Energy as promoted by literal and figurative speech (cont'd) -- Conciseness not always forcible -- Energy of construction -- Emphatic words in empathic places -- The conjunctive beginning -- The periodic structure -- Energy as promoted by Rhetorical figure -- Climax -- Antithesis -- Interrogation -- Colloquy -- Hyperbole -- Irony -- Exclamation -- Vision -- Apostrophe -- Soliloquy".
• catalog tableOfContents "Lecture XVII -- Elegance of style dependent on delicacy of thought -- Feminine qualities of truth -- Prejudices against them -- Relation of elegance to ornament -- Offenses against delicacy of thought -- The chief means of cultivating elegance -- Dependent on delicacy of expression -- Offenses, in vocabulary, in constructions, in imagery -- Influence of a study of the Scriptures -- Luxuriousness of taste -- Decline of national literatures -- Lecture XVIII -- Elegance of style dependent on vividness, distinctness of thought, sensitiveness of feeling, originality of thought, simplicity of language -- Excursus, the style of Addison and his place in English literature -- Elegance dependent on Variety -- Versatility of thought -- Variety of the Scriptures -- Variety of construction -- Variety of illustration -- Lecture XIX -- Variety of style (cont'd) -- Variety of delivery -- Elegance as dependent on harmony -- Truthfulness of discourse -- Unity of discourse -- Fitness of discourse to time, place, circumstance, and character -- Propriety in appeals -- Euphony of language, what constitutes it, how can it be acquired? -- Naturalness of style -- Definition -- How manifested to the cognizance of good taste -- Fitness of style to subject -- Fitness of style to the relations of hearers -- Fitness of style to the relations of the speaker -- Fitness to oral discourse -- Means of acquiring a natural style -- Mastery of subjects -- Self forgetfulness in composing -- Confidence in truth -- Practice in composing .".
• catalog title "English style in public discourse with special reference to the usages of the pulpit, by Austin Phelps.".
• catalog type "text".