ADVERTISEMENT. THE HE want of a system of Rhetoric upon a a concise plan, and t an eafy price, will, it is pre fumed, render this little Volume not unacceptable to the Public. To collect knowledge which is fcattered over a wide extent, into a small compafs; if it has not the merit of originality, has at least the advantage of being useful. Many who are terrified at the idea of travelling over a ponderous volume in fearch of information, will yet fet out on ort a mort journey in pursuit of science with alacrity and profit. Thofe for whom the following Effays are principally intended, will derive a peculiar benefit from the brevity with which they are conveyed. To youth who are engaged in the ru diments of learning, and whose time and attention must be occupied with a variety of fubjects, every branch of science should be rendered as concife as poffible. Hence the attention is not fatigued, nor the memory overloaded. That a knowledge of Rhetoric forms a very material part of the education of a polite fcholar, muft be univerfally allowed. Any at tempt, |