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Object of this Volume.-Power, Beauty, Wealth, and Wit of Language.- Survey of American and English Writers.-Figurative Language, in above Two Hundred Figures.—No Literature ever before so Surveyed.— Author Claims entire Originality.-Old yet Immortal Flowers, but a New Ribbon. Of utmost Use to all who Speak or Compose.-No good Treatise on Figures in our Language.-No good Distinction between Trope and Metonymy.-What in the World is a Hypocatastasis ?—A Sweet Volume given away by its Papa.-Wonderful Number of Figures. -Hard Names they have.-Ridiculed by Addison.-Names will be Hu- manized.-Definition of a Figure.-The Dawn and the Twilight.—A Mermaid of a City discovered by Washington Irving.-Barbarossa De- claims. A Water-kelpie Shrieks.-Sermon by Dr. Chalmers.-Criti- cism on his Style.-Sir Thomas More's Fool.-Earliest Prose published in England.-Figures Needful in Religion.-Language of the Old Testa- ment Described.-How Figures wear Old and get Young.-Blunder by Lord Macaulay.-Daisy and Skylark.-Style of Jesus.-French Oratory. -Felicities by Beecher.--Enoch Arden.-Jokes by Jerrold.-Thunder- ous Prose by Milton.-Pennsylvania Dutch.-The Bird in the Bosom. -Six great Points.-Claims of Greek and Latin, and one good Reason Why. Music in our Speech. - Milton's Melodies Proved. - Tam O'Shanter Croons.-Three Books necessary in this Volume: Bible, Para- dise Lost, Shakespeare.-Panegyric on Monosyllables.—Beautiful Quota- tions. - How Figures aid Invention.-Dr. Mott's admirable Sermon: the Soil, the Seed, the Sower.-Sublimity and Poesy of the Christ.— FIGURES OF ETYMOLOGY.-PART FIRST. Three Kinds of Figures: In Etymology, or Spelling; in Syntax, or Construc- |