Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Volumul 1Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - 160 pagini 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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... attention to a course of public lectures to the resi- dent graduates , and to the two senior classes of under - graduates , and to presiding at the declama- tions of the two senior classes . His public lec- tures were continued weekly ...
... attention of his auditors , was complete . It will be found that they were not excited with- out an adequate and interesting object . In addi- tion to the mass of information and ingenious dis- cussion on his appropriate topic , those ...
... attention , with which it was honored , as an essential object of instruction in the educa- tion of youth . From that era , through the long series of Greek and Roman history down to the gloom of universal night , in which the glories ...
... attention , and engaging the studies of the remotest nations and the most distant posterity . There is always a certain correspondence and✓ proportion between the estimation , in which an art is held , and the effects , which it ...
... 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 exten- sive experience of the other . The habits of in- struction too are not familiar to ...
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