Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, 1 tomasHilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - 160 psl. 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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... audience . Talk logic with acquaintance , that you have , And practise rhetoric in your common talk , TAM . SHR . says one of the characters in Shakspeare to his collegiate friend ; and the advice is good . But it is not for this , that ...
... audience , other than the influence of his discourse . Yet , as the ambassador of Christ , it is his great and awful duty to call sinners to re- pentance . His only weapon is the voice ; and with this he is to appal the guilty , and to ...
... audience with pointed sentences , and flights of fancy . He asks your favor , not for his cause , but for himself . " Here you see the root of corrup- tion , plucked up and exposed . Instead of assim 144 [ LECT . VI . CHARACTER OF.
... audience is delighted or wearied , in- structed or disgusted . I shall in future treat of the arguments , peculiarly proper for each of these occasions , separately ; but I am first to notice essential particulars , belonging to them ...
... audience , that it was incumbent upon him to place every part of his argument beyond the power of a cavil . The depth and extent of research , the ada- mantine logic , and the splendor of oratory , with which he performs this task , has ...
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