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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... opinion has had its followers from the . days of Socrates to our own ; and it still remains an inquiry among men , as in the age of Plato , and in that of Cicero , whether eloquence is an art , worthy of the cultivation of a wise and ...
... opinion , that this talent was in a more than usual degree the creature of disci- pline ; and it is one of the maxims , handed down to us , as the result of their experience , that men must be born to poetry , and bred to eloquence ...
... opinion . To say , that rhetoric is the art of per- suasion , is to make success the only criterion of eloquence . Persuasion must in a great measure depend upon the will , the temper , and the dispo- sition of the hearer . If the adder ...
... opinion , that eloquence ought not to be taught , as an art , Deterred by a natural and insuperable timidity , which , in common with many other men of genius , he either had , or fancied , from ever speaking in public himself , he ...
... . The progress of the art , in the public opinion , may be discerned in the rank and station of the persons , who at different times engaged in the occupation of teaching it . During 13 LECT . IV . ] 97 ORIGIN OF ORATORY .
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