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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... duties in congress ; he being at that time a senator of the United States expression of the countenance is admirable . Lavater would have said , I see there the genuine indications of intelligence , rectitude , and benevolence . That ...
... duties of his office ; but , in conse- quence of his public engagements , and as permit- ted by the terms of his acceptance , confined his attention to a course of public lectures to the resi- dent graduates , and to the two senior ...
... , on the thirty first of October ; and on that occasion de- livered an appropriate Latin address . He entered immediately on the duties of his office . February 26 , 1810 . CONTENTS . VOLUME FIRST . INAUGURAL ORATION PAGE . 9 viii.
... duties were inculcated , because none but a good man could be an orator . Wisdom , learning , virtue herself , were estimated by their subserviency to the pur- poses of eloquence , and the whole duty of man consisted in making himself ...
... 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 deplorable superstition . It is an insti- tution ...
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