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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... which it ought to be applied , and the end , which it is destined to answer . The peculiar and highest characteristic , which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal creation , is REASON . • JIt It is by INAUGURAL ORATION . 13.
... applied , a blessing or a curse ; the pest of nations , or the benefactress of human kind . We Here then we might rest our defence . might rely on the trite and undisputed maxim , that arguments , drawn from the abuse of any thing , I ...
... applied to the whole nation an epithet , which St. Paul tells us had been justly appropriated to the Cretans . Thus , of these three great expeditions , the causes , and almost all the story , as related by the Greeks , were undoubtedly ...
... 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 .
... applied to the fine arts , as well as to morals ; and the painters and sculptors , in imitating the productions of nature , improved upon them by these ideal images , and created those wonders of art , which still excite the ...
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