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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... called them forth . The art of embalming thought by oratory , like that of embalming bodies by ar- omatics , would have perished , but for the exer- cises of religion . These alone have in the latter ages furnished discourses , which ...
... called into 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 ...
... called upon to repel , comes from the shaft of wit ; al- ways a formidable , but not always a fair antag onist . A poet of real genius and original humor , in a couplet , which goes farther to discredit all systems of rhetoric , than ...
... called topics , or common places , of oratorical numbers , and of a general plan for extemporane- ous declamation upon every subject , he must be considered , as one of the principal improvers of eloquence . These things are peculiarly ...
... called the oration for the crown . In the distinction , which he draws be- tween the schools of Isocrates and of Aristotle , we find the true criterion for judging their re- spective pretensions . The first he pronounces to have been ...
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