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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... perhaps to be de sired . A subject , which has exhausted the genius of Aristotle , Cicero , and Quinctilian , can neither require nor admit much additional illustration , To select , combine , and apply their precepts , 28 INAUGURAL ...
... perhaps be controverted , for he contends , that it includes the moral character of the speaker , as well as the excellence of speech ; because none but an honest man can speak well . I shall on a future occasion examine impartially ...
... perhaps never be placed altogether beyond the reach of controversy , is , whether ora- tory can be numbered among the useful arts ?! Whether its tendencies are not as strong to the perversion , as to the improvement of men ? Whether it ...
... it , and cautions the orator , perhaps too rigorously , against its use . Cicero , though from the natural turn of his gen ius more liberal of these seductive graces , allows them LECT . II . ] ELOQUENCE CONSIDERED . 59.
... Perhaps one of the causes of this mistaken estimate of the art is the usual process , by which it is learnt . The exercises of the student are necessarily confined to this lowest department of the science . Your weekly declamations ...
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