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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... practice .... the mere counterfeit of jus- tice . This opinion has had its followers from the days of Socrates to our own ; and it still remains an inquiry among men , as in the age of Plato , and in that of Cicero , whether eloquence ...
... multiplied and conspicuous . Then it was , that the practice of the art attained a perfection , ever since unrivalled , and to which all succeeding times have listened with admira- tion and despair 18 INAUGURAL ORATION .
... practice of this art in various forms , and though its theory has sometimes attracted my attention , yet my acquaintance with both has been of a general nature ; and I can presume neither to a profound investigation of the one , nor an ...
... practice of the art . This distinction will become the more obvious from the consideration , that the terms are , even in common understanding , no longer con- vertible , when modified to designate the persons , professing them ; and ...
... practice of oratory , than its apti- tude to persuasion . But as the object of a scien- tific definition is to comprise in the fewest words the whole substance of the term defined , and nothing more , it must be allowed , that those of ...
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