Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres / Adam Smith ; edited by J. C. Bryce.

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Indianopolis (Ind) : Liberty Fund, 1985.

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20945

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Considerations concerning the first formation of languages, and the different genius of original and compounded languages.

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The Glasgow edition of the works and correspondence of Adam Smith.

Subject:

English language.

Rhetoric.

Contents:

Introduction: 1. The manuscript

2. The lectures

3. Considerations concerning the first formation of languages

4. Rhetoric and literary criticism

5. System and aesthetics

Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres

Considerations concerning the first formation of languages

Appendix 1. Anecdotes of the late Dr Smith (The Bee or Weekly Intelligencer, iii. May 11, 1791)

Appendix 2. Table of corresponding passages.

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"This Liberty Fund edition of 1985 is an exact photographic reproduction of the edition published by Oxford University Press in 1983." - TP verso

Includes index.

Originally published Oxford : Clarendon Pr, 1983.

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0865970521

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Phys. description:

ix, 243 p.