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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... mind , and the results of much experience and observa- tion , are therein exhibited . To relieve and ani- mate the discussions , appertaining to his subject , he thought proper frequently to indulge in figu vii rative expression to a ...
... mind to a sat- isfactory result of this inquiry , it is proper to consider the art , as well in its nature , as in its ef- fects ; to derive our inferences , not merely from the uses , which have been made of it , but from the purposes ...
... minds , and it is in the languages , the institutions , and the manners of modern Eu- rope , that the solution of a phenomenon , so extra- ordinary , must be sought . The assemblies of the people , of the select councils , or of the ...
... a faculty of the human mind . Among the causes , which have contributed thus to depress the oratory of modern times , must be numbered the indifference , with which it has The an- 1 been treated , as an article of 24 INAUGURAL ORATION :
... of little more than honest zeal for their accomplishment . In reflecting upon the nature of the duties I undertake , a consciousness of deficiency for the task of their performance dwells upon my mind ; which INAUGURAL ORATION . 27.
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