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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... languages were extinct ; her organs were no longer attuned to harmony , and her hearers could no longer under- stand her speech . The discordant jargon of feu- dal anarchy had banished the musical dialects , in which she had always ...
... languages , and lent her aid in giving them form and polish . But she has never recovered the graces of her former beauty , nor the energies of her ancient vigor . The immeasurable superiority of ancient over modern oratory is one of ...
... language in gener- al , and of logic . As these departments of study still remain , and the institution , under which I ap- pear , has been superadded to them , by embracing a part of their duties , a preliminary consideration requires ...
... language in general , without which it cannot exist at all ; and from the art of reasoning , without which that of oratory would be destitute of all solid foundation . The subjects , upon which it is my pro- vince to discourse , are ...
... language of sacred inspiration itself , to speak well is pre- cisely equivalent to the art of eloquence , and in this definition the words of Quinctilian are ratified by the voice of heaven . His approbation of another definition ...
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