Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Band 1Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - 160 Seiten Before becoming President of the United States, John Quincy Adams was a Harvard professor of language, rhetoric and oratory, with this book comprising his lectures. Published in 1810 when Quincy Adams was in his forties, this work is a collection which demonstrates the breadth of knowledge which he passed to students eager to learn about the arts of speaking. The early lectures cover the basic principles of oratory and eloquence in the context of public speaking, and the origins of rhetoric as a celebrated art form in ancient Greece and Rome. It is clear that the author possesses an intense knowledge of the subject and its professional application. Later on in the text are more specific lectures, such as the importance of perfecting oratory for the courtroom, and the personal qualities a good speaker should cultivate. Keeping tight control of one's emotions when speaking or debating with others, and delivering compelling lectures from the church pulpit, are also discussed at length. Although this material is well over 200 years old with much of the language archaic by modern standards, the ideas and principles espoused by Quincy Adams remain both relevant and important to students and those working in fields where speech is vital. |
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... adapted rather to the pageantry of a public festi- val , than to the sober concerns of real life . And third , that it is a pernicious science ; the purpose of which is to mislead the judgment by fascinat- ing the imagination . That its ...
... adapted to representation , and not to action ; to the first essays of youth , and not to the serious labors of manhood . But it is in judicial controversies , where the conflict of rights must be decided by the conflict of talents ...
... adapted to make him an accomplished orator ; for which he takes him in the first years of infancy , yet lisping from the arms of the nurse , and conducts him by fair degrees through every preliminary study , and every appropriate branch ...
... adapted to the purpose of his discourse ; of selecting from the whole mass of ideas , conceived or stored in his mind , those , which can most effectually pro- mote the object of his speech ; of gathering from the whole domain of real ...
... adapted to obtain the purpose of the speaker ; and one of the objects of the rhetori- cian is to indicate to the practical orator the means of sharpening this faculty , and of facilitating its exercise . To this end Aristotle appears to ...
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