A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style, the Elements of Taste and Criticism with Rules for the Study of Composition and Eloquence ... Selected Chiefly from the British Classics ... by Alexander Jamieson

In sermons, where there is seldom any occasion for narration, explication of the
subject to be discoursed on comes in the ... To explain the doctrine of the text with
propriety; to give a full and perspicuous account of the nature of that virtue or ...