"Discordant consensus": Old and new rhetoric at Trinity College, Dublin

Rhetorica - Journal of the History of Rhetoric

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 383-441

  Moss, Jean Dietz ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

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EID: 64949132823     PISSN: 07348584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/rh.1996.14.4.383     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. W. S. Howell, Eighteenth Century British Logic and Rhetoric (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971)
2. R. B. McDowell, Trinity College Dublin 1592-1952: An Academic History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), pp. 1-2. Membership figures are recorded in Trinity College Muniment/5/27, vol. II, reverse, fol. 2r
3. William E. H. Lecky, The History of Ireland (London: Longmans, 1892), 1:148-49
4. John Pentland Mahaffy, An Epoch in Irish History. Trinity College, Dublin. Its Foundation and Early Fortunes, 1591-1660 (London: T.F. Unwin, 1896), p. 186
5. R. F. Foster, Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (London: Penguin, 1988), p. 208
6. T. Corcoran, Some Lists of Catholic Lay Teachers and Their Illegal Schools in the Later Penal Times (Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, 1932), reports on the numbers of schools in the province of Cashell and lists the teachers seized and deported for penal labor in the American colonies (p. 21). In Cashell (which included the dioceses of Cashell, Cork, Ross, Waterford, Lismore, Killalow, Limerick, Cloyne, and Kilfenora) in 1731, 141 schools were reported (pp. 27-28)
7. Foster, Modern Ireland 1600-1972, pp. 96, 105, 119-25, 208, 604, and 607
8. Mahaffy, An Epoch in Irish History, p. 146
9. Walter J. Ong comments on Temple's Ramism at Cambridge and Trinity College in Ramus, Method and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958), pp. 15, 302-3
10. Mahaffy records the Latin statutes in an appendix, pp. 327-75 of An Epoch in Irish History. John William Stubbs describes the statutes and comments upon them in an earlier account, The History of the University of Dublin From Its Foundation to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis; London: Longmans, Green, 1889), pp. 43-45
11. Bedell's statutes, ch. 13 in Mahaffy, An Epoch in Irish History, p. 351
12. McDowell, Trinity College Dublin 1592-1952, p. 8
13. Foster, Modern Ireland 1600-1972, p. 124
14. Stubbs, The History of the University of Dublin, pp. 139-40
15. These works are recorded in Clarke, Classical Education in Britain, who cites Stubbs, The History of the University of Dublin, pp. 194-200. A similar list is given with no date in Trinity College Mss, MunV/27, vol. 1, fol. 1; examination requirements for 1743 are listed in this manuscript at fol. 90v
16. Mun/V/27, fol. 6r
17. Trinity Mun/P/1/902; Trinity College, Dublin, University Calendar, 1833, pp. 121-23
18. John Lawson, Lectures Concerning Oratory, ed. E. Neal Claussen and Karl R. Wallace (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972)
19. Noted by Claussen and Wallace in the introduction to Lawson, Lectures, p. xxx
20. Keesey, "John Lawson's Lectures," pp. 49-51
21. Internal references are to the text of Lawson's lectures
22. Introduction to Lawson, Lectures, p. xxxix
23. Howell, Eighteenth Century British Logic and Rhetoric, pp. 619-20
24. Claussen and Wallace, introduction to Lawson, Lectures, p. xxx
25. George Kennedy, Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1980), p. 98
26. Kennedy cites Quintilian 11.3, 6
27. Wallace A. Bacon, "The Elocutionary Career of Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788)," Speech Monographs 31 (March, 1964): 6-7. Bacon gives an excellent account of Sheridan's career and describes his educational effort in detail
28. Sheridan, A Discourse, being Introductory to his course of lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759), reprinted with an introduction by G. P. Mohrmann, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Publication Number 136 (Los Angeles: University of California, 1969)
29. A Discourse, p. 13
30. Bacon, "The Elocutionary Career," p. 14
31. quoting Sheridan's Oration
32. Ibid
33. quoting Whyte's advertisement in his Poems on Various Subjects (Dublin, 1795)
34. McDowell, Trinity College Dublin 1592-1952, notes the widening of the curriculum during the last part of the century (pp. 67-71), and Trinity College University Calendar for 1833 records continued stress on the classics (pp. 32, 82)
35. Claussen and Wallace, introduction to Lawson, Lectures, p. xix
36. Robert M. Post describes the importance of "the Club" in the history of debate in "Forensic Activities at Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century," Central States Speech Journal 19 (1968): 19-25
37. Letter from Theaker Willen, Senior Lecturer, 14 July 1759, Trinity, Mun/5/27
38. Samuels and Samuels, The Early Life, p. 29
39. Mun/V/27, vol. I, fols. 90v and 94v
40. Samuels, The Early Life, p. 248
41. "First Minute Book," p. 67
42. Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Great Melody (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), p. 31
43. H. V. F. Somerset, ed., A Note-book of Edmund Burke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957), pp. 45-49
44. College Historical Society Journals are in three volumes: I, 1770-1773
45. II, 1773-1776
46. and III, 1776-1781. Internal references are to these volumes
47. Miller, "The King"s English," pp. 25-26
48. Samuels and Samuels, The Early Life, pp. 204-5
49. Miller, "The King's English," p. 16