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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... rhetoricians , demon , strative orations , persuasion is not even the prin- cipal end ; and , even in the fields of deliberative and judicial eloquence , all the arts of rhetoric have often been employed without producing per- suasion ...
... rhetoricians ; among whom were Thrasymachus of Chalcedon ; Prodicus of the island of Ceos , and the original author of that beautiful and instructive fable of the choice of Hercules ; Protagoras of Abdera ; Hippias of Elis ; Alcidamus ...
... rhetoricians we are assured , that Gorgias was the inventor of what are called topics , or common places , of oratorical numbers , and of a general plan for extemporane- ous declamation upon every subject , he must be considered , as ...
... rhetoricians in point of time is Lucian of Samosata , who lived and died in the second century of the christian era . After having been successively a sculptor and a practi- tioner at the bar , and becoming disgusted with both these ...
... rhetoricians . It was my first intention , up- on mentioning their works , to have given you a brief analytical survey of their contents . This however I soon found would require a course of lectures by itself . Perhaps at some future ...
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