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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... importance of the duty is apparent in the distinction , which separated it from all the other transcendent gifts , with which the inspired leader was endowed , and committed it , as a special charge , to his associate . Nor will it ...
... importance of the art , concerning which I am speaking . Is it the purpose of your future life to minister in the temples of Almighty God , to be the messenger of heaven upon earth , to en- lighten with the torch of eternal truth the ...
... importance of his ser- vices to his country ; whose visions of futurity glow with the hope of presiding in her councils , of directing her affairs , of appearing to future ages on the rolls of fame , as her ornament and pride ? Let him ...
... importance to the art has been derived , Aristotle , Cicero , and Quinc- tilian himself . Rhetoric , says Aristotle , is the power of inventing whatsoever is persuasive in discourse . } This is liable to two objections . First , as it ...
... important and extensive class of discourses , styled by Aristotle himself , and by all the other ancient rhetoricians , demon- strative orations , persuasion is not even the prin- cipal end ; and , even in the fields of deliberative and ...
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