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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... 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 · LECT . XVI . Excitation and management of the passions 367 LECT . XVII ...
... judicial eloquence , all the arts of rhetoric have often been employed without producing per- suasion . This difficulty stands yet more conspicuously in the way of Cicero's definition , the art of per- suasion ; a definition , appearing ...
... judicial eloquence persuasion is the great and fundamental object ; and the public speaker , in composing or pronouncing his discourse , should never lose sight of this principle . There is no better test for the correctness of any ...
... judicial war in the public tribunals ; a sword for the field of religious and moral victory in the pulpit . In the endeavour to refute these petty cavils against rhetoric , which have no higher foundation , than a superficial ...
... judicial oration to- gether ; Policrates , damned to fame , as one of the advocates against Socrates upon his trial ; and Theodore of Byzantium . All these writers are included by Plato under the contemptuous denomination of word ...
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