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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... discourse , Looking before and after , gave us not That capability and God - like reason , To rust in us , unus'd . " A faculty thus elevated , given us for so sub- lime a purpose , and destined to an end so excel- lent , was not ...
... discourses to the people , on the nature of their duties to their Maker , their fellow - mortals , and themselves . This was an idea , too august to be mingled with the ab- surd and ridiculous , or profligate and barbarous rites of her ...
... discourses , which remind us , that eloquence is yet a faculty of the human mind . Among the causes , which have contributed thus to depress the oratory of modern times , must be numbered the indifference , with which it has The an- 1 ...
... discourse , are rhetoric and oratory ; terms , which in ordinary language are often used , as synonymous in their meaning ; but which are to be distinguished , as properly applying , the for- mer to the theory , and the latter to the ...
... discourse . This is liable to two objections . First , as it includes only one part of the art , invention , omit- ting the essential requisites of disposition and elo- cution . And secondly , though persuasion be one of the principal ...
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