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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... distinction , which separated it from all the other transcendent gifts , with which the inspired leader was endowed , and committed it , as a special charge , to his associate . Nor will it escape your observation , that , when the ...
... distinction be- tween the fictions of pagan superstition and the narrative of real events , a school of rhetoric and oratory , established in the Peloponnesus , dawns upon our view . After the lapse of a thousand years from that time ...
... distinction will become the more obvious from the consideration , that the terms are , even in common understanding , no longer con- vertible , when modified to designate the persons , professing them ; and the difference between the ...
... distinction , as the necessary relation be- tween these faculties , has treated of them in two distinct works ; and unfolded their mysteries with all the energies of his profound , comprehensive , and discriminating genius . Equally ...
... distinction , which I first laid down , between the science of rhetoric and the art of oratory . The origin of oratory has undoubtedly the priority in point of time . Such must obvious- ly be the case with all the arts . Many a house ...
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