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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... interest of nations are all told , long before the questions themselves are submitted to discussion . Hence those na- tions , which for ages have gloried in the devotion to literature , science , and the arts , have never been able to ...
... every citizen has a deep interest in the affairs of the nation , and , in some form of public assembly or other , has the means and opportunity of deliver- ing his opinions , and of communicating his senti- ments 30 INAUGURAL ORATION .
... interests , occasional as well as permanent , there above all others will be the spot , where eloquence will spring to light ; will flourish ; will rise to the high- est perfection , of which human art or science is susceptible . The ...
... interests , and connected by a confederation , dif- fering indeed in many essential particulars from theirs , but perhaps in a still higher degree favorable to the influence and exertion of elo- quence . 70 [ LECT . II . OBJECTIONS AGAINST.
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