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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... speech was also bestowed as an exclusive privilege upon man ; not the mere utterance of articulate sounds ; not the mere cries of passion , which he has in com- mon with the lower orders of animated nature ; but as the conveyance of ...
... speech . The discordant jargon of feu- dal anarchy had banished the musical dialects , in which she had always delighted . The theatres of her former triumphs were either deserted , or they were filled with the babblers of sophistry and ...
... speech ; where government itself has no arms but those of persuasion ; where prejudice has not acquired an uncontroled ascendency , and faction is yet confined within the barriers of peacc ; the voice of eloquence will not be heard in ...
... speech , and more persuasive sighs , Silence , that speaks , and eloquence of eyes . POPE'S ILIAD , XIV . 250 . To this it has been justly replied , that persua- sion , being so nearly identified with the ultimate purpose of all ...
... speech ; because none but an honest man can speak well . I shall on a future occasion examine impartially , and endeavor to ascertain precisely the true value of this opin- ion , which is so warmly advocated by all the great orators of ...
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