[Bouhours, Dominique]: The Arts of Logick and Rhetorick. [Translated and adapted by John Oldmixon]

The Arts of Logick and Rhetorick, illustrated by Examples taken out of the best Authors, Antient and Modern, In all the Polite Languages. Interpreted and Explain'd By that Learned and Judicious Critick, Father Bouhours. To which are added, Parallel Quotations Out of the Most Eminent English Authors in Verse and Prose: Wherein the like Observations are made on their Beauties and Blemishes, in all the various Kinds of Thought and Expression. Reprint der Ausgabe London 1728. Seiner Bearbeitung/Übersetzung von Bouhours' "La Manière de bien penser dans les Ouvrages d'esprit" hat Oldmixon eine Einleitung über dessen Leben und Werk vorangestellt. - Oldmixon in his preface: "The Design of Pere Bouhours is to form the Judgment, not by dry and rigid Rules only, but by the Beauties and Blemishes of the most celebrated Writers, ancient and modern. [...] In the following Translation, I have been obliged to be slavishly literal; for the Criticisms often depending on a Word as well as the Thought, both must be preserv'd, or the Criticism's lost; and it has not been a little hard, where Pere Bouhours quotes Passages for their Nonsense, to preserve even the Spirit of the Nonsense, if I may say so, in the Translation, and much less the Spirit of all the various Kinds of fine Thinking". XXXII,418,[16] Seiten, Leinen (Anglistica & Americana; Band 163/Olms Verlag 1976) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear