Index
Reading edition
Abbreviated names, 229-30
Address Preceding the Removal of the Senate from the Old to the New Chamber, 176-77
Adler, Mortimer J., 27, 30-31
Aesthetic distance, 175-79
“aggressor,” 231-32
“allies,” 221-22
“American,” 218-20
Anderson, Sherwood, 226
Animadversions upon the Remonstrant’s Defence against Smectymnuus, 160
Areopagitica, 147, 150, 159
Aristotle
definition of dialectical problem, 15-16
cited, 128, 203
Beveridge, Albert, 85
Beyle, Herman C., 192
Bible, 14, 214
Bishop, John Peale, 161, 201
Blish, James, 5
Bongiorno, Andrew, 203
Breckinridge, John C., 176
Bryan, William Jennings, 36-39, 41
Bryan, William Jennings, Jr., 35
Burke, Edmund
on the Catholic question, 58-62
policy toward American colonies, 62-65
policy toward India, 65-68
policy toward the French Revolution, 68-72
on metaphysics, 72-73
Burke, Kenneth, 22, 128, 225
Carlyle, Thomas, 133
Carroll, E. Malcolm, 79
Caste spirit, 206-8
Channing, W. E., 143
Charismatic terms, 227-32
Chase, Stuart, 8
Choate, Rufus, 179
Churchill, Winston, 20
Cicero, 174
Circumstance, argument from, defined, 57
“Communist,” 222-23
Craddock, Charles Egbert, 165
Darrow, Clarence, 32, 34-35, 41
Demetrius, On Style, 173
“democracy,” 228-29
Democracy in America, Tocqueville’s, 76
DeWitt, Norman J., 174
Dialectical terms, 48, 52-53, 187-88;
Plato on, 16
Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, 146, 153
Duhamel, P. Albert, 3
“efficient,” 217-18
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 81
Epistemology, in relation to oratory, 178-82
Ewing, Representative Andrew, 164-65
“fact,” 214-15
Faris, Ellsworth, 205
Faulkner, Charles J., 168
Federal Prose, 199-200
“freedom,” 228
Genus, argument from, defined, 56
GI rhetoric, 225-26
Greek language, 140
Harding, T. Swann, 208
Hay, John, 85
Hays, Arthur Garfield, 35-36
Henley, W. E., 131
Herndon, W. H., 85, 89, 111-12
“history,” 220-21
Huxley, T. H., 8, 122-23
Inverted hierarchies, 224-27
Jackson, Andrew, 78
James, Henry, 121-22, 123, 133-34
Jameson, Samuel H., 197
Laski, Harold, 207
Latinate terms, 196-201
Lincoln, Abraham
argument from genus “man,” 87-95
First Inaugural Address, 96-100
on definition, 104-5
and the excluded middle, 105-7
his perspective, 108-11
Lundberg, George, 204
Lysias, speech of, 5-7
Malone, Dudley Field, 35, 39, 47-48
Maritain, Jacques, 21, 24
Mather, Kirtley F., 42-43, 51
Melioristic bias, 195-201
Metaphor, attitude of social scientists toward, 202-6
Metcalf, Maynard, 49
Milton, John
primacy of the concept, 144-52
extended metaphor, use of, 150-52
antithetical expressions, use of, 152-55
superlative mode, 155-58
systematic collocation, use of, 158-61
“modern,” 217
Morley, John, 67
Murray, Paul, 79, 80, 81
Nicolay, John G., 85
Of Reformation in England, 145, 148, 154, 156
Orwell, George, 228, 229, 230
Parts of speech
noun, 127-28
adjective, 129-33
adverb, 133-34
verb, 135-36
conjunction, 137-38
preposition, 138-39
Pedantic empiricism, 191-95
Phrases, 139-41
Plato
method of transcendence, 4-5, 18-19
on madness as a form of inspiration, 13
definition of positive and dialectical terms, 16
on the nature of the soul, 17
Position and Function of the American Bar, as an Element of Conservatism in the State, The, 179-81
“prejudice,” 223-24
Primary equivocation, 187-91
Prior, James, 75-76
“progress,” 212-14
Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty, 151
Rhetorical syllogism, 173
Right of assumption, 169
Russell, Bertrand, 191, 204
Sandburg, Carl, 129
Santillana, George de, 203-4
“science,” 215-16
Seeman, Melvin, 192
“semantically purified” speech, 7-10
Sentence
defined, 117-18
grammatical types of, 119-27
Shapiro, Karl, 130
Similitude, argument from, defined, 56-57
Spinoza, B., 25
Stewart, Attorney-general of Tennessee, 32, 33, 39, 41, 46-47
Stylization, 182-83
Tate, Allen, 118
Taylor, A. E., 3
Taylor, Donald J., 194
Tennessee anti-evolution law, 29-30
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 76
Tuve, Rosemund, 150
Twain, Mark, 136, 224
Uncontested terms, 166-71, 184
Where the Battle Was Fought, 165
Whig political philosophy, 76-80
Williamson, Samuel T., 186