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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... ment and self - admiration , at the age of forty , that he had been all his life time speaking prose with- out knowing it . And this bright discovery comes from the information he then first receives from his teacher of grammar , that ...
... ment of literature . Though confined to a single subject , that subject is sublimity ; though gnawed and mutilated by the tooth of time into a mere fragment , it is a fragment from the table of the gods . His With Longinus the ...
... ment in discourse , one of which must arise from the dignity of the subject , and will naturally com- municate some part of its elevation to the express- ions , used for its developement ; and the other from the diction , the choice and ...
... ment , and at another so pernicious in hastening the corruption of eloquence , that it will be proper to give you a short historical account of its rise , progress , and perversion . There has been some controversy , by whom it was ...
... ment to literature ; charges heaven with injustice ; denies an eternal superintending providence , and scorns his own weakness for supporting the bur- den of his existence , while his own hand could re- lease him from its thraldom ...
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