Specimens of Argumentation

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The editor hopes, then, that the work will be useful in three ways as a fund of illustration for lectures on Argumentative Composition which a class may easily possess in common with its instructor; as material for training in the drawing of briefs; and for analyses by the class or the instructor, by the methods used in the notes, not merely for structure but also for persuasive methods and argumentative skill.