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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... demonstrative oratory 229 LECT . XI . Deliberative oratory 253 LECT . XII . Judicial oratory 277 LECT . XIII . Judicial oratory 297 LECT . XIV . Eloquence of the pulpit 321 LECT . XV . Intellectual and moral qualities of an orator 343 ...
... demonstrative orations . This division has been universally adopted until very modern times ; and is even prescribed in the rules and statutes of the Boylston professorship , as still to be recognized in this course of public lec tures ...
... demonstrative oratory ; but , in excluding this latter denomination altogether , they have left a numerous and in our country an important class of public discourses entirely destitute of a name . In the British domin- ions perhaps ...
... demonstrative class of the ancients . There are many other occasions public and private , upon which we are accustomed to assemble in churches , and hear orations of the demonstrative kind . Many of the performances at all our public ...
... demonstrative oratory in the place , from which Doctor Blair has degrad- ed it ; and for the eloquence of the pulpit must as- sign a separate and very distinguished place by itself . There is also another mode of public speaking , which ...
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