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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... action , and that ev- ery part of a rhetorical discourse finds its place for the success of the cause . The diamond in the mine is no brighter , than the pebble upon the beach . From the hand of the lapidary must it learn to sparkle in ...
... action , upon the field of blood , that the fortune of the day may be decided by the ex- actness of the manual exercise ; and the art of dis- playing a column , or directing a charge , may turn the balance of victory and change the ...
... action . The dialogues give a dissection of the art into its constituent parts ; the orator gathers the parts , and connects them into an organized body . The dialogues are a delinea- tion of the talent ; the orator is a portrait of the ...
... 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 , that the manhood , the high- est energies ...
... action , must success- ively be applied , and here alone can the highest perfection of the art be found . To professional speakers , the orator of Cicero is a work , which they should familiarize and mas- ter , at the very threshold of ...
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