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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... kind . . Here then we might rest our defence . We might rely on the trite and undisputed maxim , that arguments , drawn from the abuse of any thing , are not admissible against its use . But we must proceed one step further , and say ...
... , with the doctrines of religion , with laws , usages , history , and the knowledge of man- kind , may be applied to the purposes of the orator . Physics and mathematics , he contends , are in their 102 [ LECT . IV . ORIGIN OF ORATORY .
... kind of orators , was only the preface to a translation , which Cicero made and published , of the two orations for the crown ; of Demosthenes and Eschines . The rigorous critics at Rome had censured Cicero himself , as inclin- ing too ...
... kind ; and in the reply to all the severities of satire , and all the bitterness of misanthropy , repeat with conscious exultation , " we are of the same species of beings , as Cicero . " LECTURE VI . INSTITUTES AND CHARACTER OF ...
... kind of public speaking he therefore denominated judicial eloquence . That the third division consisted of all such speeches , as , having no reference either to deliberation for the future , or to adjudication upon the past , were en ...
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