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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... modern . However the author may have regretted , that these lectures were thus destined to appear before the world without his deliberate revisal , they will , it is believed , be considered as a valuable acquisi- tion to the public ...
... modern civilization the palm of unanswered eloquence was awarded to the writer , who maintained , that the sciences had always promoted rather the misery , than the happiness of mankind ; and in the age ) and nation , which heard the ...
... of servitude . Then succeeded the midnight of the monkish ages , when with the oth- er liberal arts she slumbered in the profound dark . ness of the cloister . 1 cane . At the revival of letters in modern 20 INAUGURAL ORATION .
... modern Europe , eloquence , together with her sister muses , awoke , and shook the poppies from her brow . But their torpors still tingled in her veins . In the interval her voice was gone ; her favorite languages were extinct ; her ...
... modern oratory is one of the most remarkable cir . cumstances , which offer themselves to the scruti ny of reflecting minds , and it is in the languages , the institutions , and the manners of modern Eu- rope , that the solution of a ...
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