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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... at Rome LECT . V. Cicero and his rhetorical writings · 95 117 LECT . VI . Institutes and character of Quinctilian 139 LECT . VII . Constituent branches of rhetoric b · 161 CONTENTS . LECT . VIII . State of the controversy.
... controversy · 183 LECT . IX . Topics 207 LECT . X. Arguments and demonstrative oratory 229 LECT . XI . Deliberative oratory 253 LECT . XII . Judicial oratory 277 LECT . XIII . Judicial oratory 297 LECT . XIV . Eloquence of the pulpit ...
... controversy among mankind . In forming an estimate of the moral or intellectual merits of many a person , whose name is recorded in the volumes of history , their virtues and vices are so nearly balanced , that their station in the ...
... controversy , is , whether ora- tory can be numbered among the useful arts ? Whether its tendencies are not as strong to the perversion , as to the improvement of men ? Whether it has not more frequently been made an engine of evil ...
... controversy must be unfolded in a perspicuous manner to the mind of the judge , or a tangled tissue of blended facts and law must be familiarly un- ravelled to a jury ; that is , at the very crisis , when the contest is to be decided by ...
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