Blair — Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Hugh Blair's widely used lectures on style, taste, and criticism, which standardised the teaching of rhetoric and literature. They were a staple of English-language education for generations.

Sources for Blair — Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

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• https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_lectures-on-rhetoric-and_blair-hugh_1783_1
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Blair

Blair — Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in Rhetoric

Held in the Rhetoric chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.

• Aristotle — Rhetoric (−330)
• Cicero — De Oratore (On the Orator) (−55)
• Quintilian — Institutio Oratoria (The Orator's Education) (95)
• Demosthenes — The Public Orations (−323)
• Longinus — On the Sublime (100)
• Augustine — De Doctrina Christiana (On Christian Doctrine) (397)
• Vico — The New Science (1725)