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. |
Knygos viduje
Rezultatai 1–5 iš 25
... civil or of criminal jurisdiction . The litigation of these rights in the courts of justice often requires the exertion of the most exalted intellectual powers ; and it is by pub- lic speaking alone , that they can be exerted . For the ...
... civil and political lib- erty , were so reciprocally situated , as to have a great and continual intercourse with each other , and many momentous common interests , occasional as well as permanent , there above all others will be the ...
... civil liberty . Like them , we are united in certain great national interests , and connected by a confederation , dif- fering indeed in many essential particulars from theirs , but perhaps in a still higher degree favorable to the ...
... was the harp of Orpheus and the lyre of Amphion , which attracted mankind by the fasci- nations of pleasure into the ties of civil society , the . founder of the Roman state is exhibited , as Origin and progress of oratory at Rome ·
... civil , polit- ical , and military constitution of the Roman repub- lic to go through , before you can open an unob- structed avenue between the beauties of Cicero and your own understandings . How much more reason then must you have to ...
Kiti leidimai - Peržiūrėti viską
Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory– Delivered to the Classes of ..., 1 tomas John Quincy Adams Visos knygos peržiūra - 1810 |
Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory– Delivered to the Classes of ..., 1 tomas John Quincy Adams Visos knygos peržiūra - 1810 |