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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... honors of repu- tation , will all inevitably fly to him , who is known to possess , not only the precious treasures ... honor , and of fame , is the pursuit of the lawyer , the impulse of eloquence can alone speed him in his course . If ...
... honor around the brows of infamy . Her voice is ever ready to rescue the culprit from punishment , and to turn the bolt of public ven- geance upon innocence . Upon every breeze her breath wings the pestilence of sedition , or kindles ...
... honor and in exercise of power from the first moment , that any real fact can be discerned . In the Grecian annals history and oratory make their first appearance , entering hand in hand upon the scene . But so far are these personages ...
... too much elated by the honor of this appointment ; and , in the effusions of his gratitude or of his servility , prostitutes his elo . quence in strains of adulation to the emperor , which 20 LECT . VI . ] 153 QUINCTILIAN .
... the orator must exert himself to bring the cause , which he supported , was justice . But orations , written before - hand , for delivery on some public solemnity , whether in honor 184 [ LECT . VIII . STATE OF THE LECT IX.
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