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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... ancient and 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 ...
... ancient vigor . The immeasurable superiority of ancient over 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 ...
... ancient orators ; and here alone have the modern Europeans cultivated the art with much success . In vain should we enter the halls of justice , in vain should we listen to the debates of senates for strains of oratory , worthy of remem ...
... ancient oratory those unresisted powers , which mould the inind of man to the will of the speaker , and yield the guidance of a nation to the dominion of the voice . Under governments purely republican , where every citizen has a deep ...
... 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 and submitting to the test of crit- ical ...
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