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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... Whether it has not more frequently been made an engine of evil , than of good to the world ? Or whether at best it is not one of those frivolous arts , which consists more in arbitrary , multifari- ous 44 [ LECT . I. GENERAL VIEW OF.
... consists more in arbitrary , multifari- ous subdivisions and hard words , than in any real , practical utility . The question is to you , my friends , of so much importance , that in justice to you , to myself , and to the institution ...
... consist in the act of public speaking . And who can doubt , but that in the sacred desk , or at the bar , the man , who speaks well , will en- joy a larger share of reputation , and be more useful to his fellow creatures , than the ...
... consisting of nothing but a tedi- ous and affected enumeration of the figures of speech , or if it be a frivolous science , teaching only the process of beating up a frothy declama- tion into seeming consistency , at least it cannot be ...
... consist in the manoeuvres of a training day ; nor the steadfastness of the soldier at the hour of battle , in the drilling of his orderly serjeant . Yet the superior excellence of the veteran army is exemplified in nothing more forci ...
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