The Philosophy of Rhetoric

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The Philosophy of Rhetoric Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address ALSO IN THIS SERIES Chironomia: or, A Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery, by Gilbert Austin. Edited with an Introduction by Mary Margaret Robb and Lester Thonssen. Selections from the Rhetorical Works of Alexander Bain. Edited with an Introduction by Andrea A. Lunsford. Chirologia: or the Natural Language of the Hand and Chironomia : or, The Art ofManual Rhetoric, by John Bulwer. Lectures Read to the Seniors in Harvard College, by Edward T. , Channing. Edited by Dorothy I. Anderson and Waldo W. Braden. Cicero on Oratory and Orators. Translated or edited by J. S. Watson, with an Introduction by Ralph A. Micken. The Colonial Idiom. Edited by David Potter and Gordon L. Thomas. Selected Essays on Rhetoric, by Thomas De Quincey. Edited with an Introduction by Frederick Burwick. Essays from Select British Eloquence, by Chauncey Allen Goodrich. Edited with an Introduction by A. Craig Baird. The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy. Edited with an Introduction and Critical Apparatus by John T. Harwood. Lectures Concerning Oratory, by John Lawson. Edited with an Introduction by E. Neal Claussen and Karl R. Wallace. Puritan Rhetoric, by Eugene E. White. Quintilian on the Teaching ofSpeaking and Writing: Translations from Books One, Two, and Ten ofthe "Institutio oratoria ." Edited by JamesJ. Murphy. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, by Adam Smith. Edited with an Introduction by John M. Lothian. Elements ofRhetoric, by Richard Whately. Edited by Douglas Ehninger. The Philosophy of Rhetoric George Campbell edited with a new introduction by Lloyd F. Bitzer Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale Copyright © 1963 by Southern Illinois University Press Editor’s introduction copyright © 1988 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University 2008 paperback edition copyright © 2008 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 11 10 09 08 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Campbell, George, 1719–1800. The philosophy of rhetoric. (Landmarks in rhetoric and public address) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Rhetoric—1500–1800. 2. English language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800. I. Bitzer, Lloyd F. II. Title. III. Series. PN173.C3 1988 808 87-13108 ISBN 0-8093-1417-7 ISBN 0-8093-1418-5 (pbk.) ISBN 978-0-8093-1417-1 ISBN 978-0-8093-1418-8 (pbk.) The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. ' ...