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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... , " on ac- count of a call in the foreign service of the coun- try . " He took leave of the students in his lec- ture , delivered on the twenty eighth of July , and 150 % soon afterward embarked for Russia , being ap- pointed minister.
... ture of the earth , and the phenomena of the uni- verse ; to be acquired only by the study of nat- ural philosophy ? And how can a man obtain the confidence of a whole people in his moral charac- ter , or that knowledge of the human ...
... ture , the imagination is able to conceive of good- ness and beauty more perfect , than they can be found in any of the works of nature , or of man . This creature of the imagination Plato designates by the name of the good and fair ...
... ture were unstrung , and , as the sons had no sense of what was due to themselves , the fathers had lost all memory of their duties to their offspring . The ignorance of the rhetorical teachers , their preposterous methods of ...
... ture is what , in our modern courts of justice , is ture . termed an issue of fact . All trials 198 [ LECT . VIII . STATE OF THE.
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