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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... orator 343 · LECT . XVI . Excitation and management of the passions • 367 LECT . XVII . Disposition . Exordium 391 LECT . XVIII . Narration . 411 AN INAUGURAL ORATION , DELIVERED AT THE AUTHOR'S INSTALLATION , X CONTENTS .
... orator must be a man of universal knowledge . Moral duties were inculcated , because none but a good man could be an orator . Wisdom , learning , virtue herself , were estimated by their subserviency to the pur- poses of eloquence , and ...
... orator always the issue of instruction . The doc- trine seems to be not entirely without foundation , but was by them carried in both its parts to an extravagant excess . The foundations for the oratorical talent , as well as those of ...
... orator . The definitions of rhetoric , by the ancient writ- ers upon the art , are so numerous and so various , not only in the selection of their terms , but in the ideas , which they embrace , that Quinctilian , after recapitulating ...
... orator of heaven , with a heart sincere , upright , and fervent ; a mind stored with that universal knowledge , required as the foundation of the art ; with a genius for the invention , a skill for the disposition , and a voice for the ...
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