Hr. POTOCKI Stanislaw
ON PRONUNCIATION AND STYLE
Volume 2, Part I
Warsaw 1815, Nakładem Zawadzki i Węcki, pp. 510; format 10.5x17.5cm
In contents: Sermonic eloquence; Extracts from Massylion's sermons; On funeral eulogies. Extracts from Macarius and Fleshier; Extracts from the funeral eulogies of Bossuet; On eulogies; Eulogies and their patterns in the Greeks; Eulogies and their patterns in the Romans until the death of Constantine; Eulogies and their patterns until the resurrection of the sciences; Thraian's penegyric by Pliny; On eulogies and their patterns in tenth-century times; Extracts from the eulogies of Laharp and Thomas; On the various kinds of academic and other speeches; Speech of J.J. Rousseau on the arts and sciences, considered as a model of speech in moral, philosophical and political genesis; Notes on the above speech; Various eloquent extracts from today's outstanding writers; Models of speech in moral and practical philosophy.
HARDCOVER FULL LEATHER OF THE PERIOD, DECORATIVE SPINE, TWO COLORED LEATHER SIGNBOARDS, GILT. PAGE EDGES STAINED
BDB condition- missing front movable cover, detached section of front pastedown, signature of owner.
