NEW THEORY OF THE ART OF SPEAKING;

BEING A SERIES OF

COMPLETE DEBATES, OUTLINES OF DEBATES,
AND QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION;

WITH

REFERENCES TO THE BEST SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON
EACH PARTICULAR TOPIC.

BY

FREDERIC ROWTON,

LECTURER ON GENERAL LITERATURE;

AUTHOR OF "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT REVIEWED,"

ETC. ETC.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1846.

1. Which is of the greatest benefit to his Country—

the Warrior,— the Statesman,

2. Are the Mental Capacities of the Sexes equal?

3. Is Capital Punishment justifiable?

or the Poet?

1

25

44

71

94

117

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4. Does Morality increase with Civilisation ?

5. Has the Stage a Moral Tendency?

6. Have the Crusades been beneficial to Mankind?

7. Is the character of Oliver Cromwell worthy of our

admiration?

8. Which was the greater Poet - Shakspere or

Milton ?

164

9. Which has done the greater service to mankind--

the Printing Press, or the Steam Engine?

10. Which does the most to make the Orator

Knowledge, Nature, or Art?

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