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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... persuasion to panegyric , and all her faculties were soon pal- sied by the touch of corruption , or enervated by the impotence of servitude . Then succeeded the midnight of the monkish ages , when with the oth- er liberal arts she ...
... Persuasion , manacled and pinioned by the letter of the law ; there she beheld an image of herself , stammering in barbarous Latin , and staggering under the lum- ber of a thousand volumes . Her heart fainted within her . She lost all ...
... persuasion ; where prejudice has not acquired an uncontroled ascendency , and faction is yet confined within the barriers of peace ; the voice of eloquence will not be heard in vain . March then with firm , with steady , with undeviat ...
... one part of the art , invention , omit- ting the essential requisites of disposition and elo- cution . And secondly , though persuasion be one $ • of the principal ends of rhetoric , it is not LECT . I. ] RHETORIC AND ORATORY . 35.
... Persuasion must in a great measure depend upon the will , the temper , and the dispo- sition of the hearer . If the adder will turn away his ear , what persuasion is there in the voice of the charmer ? Persuasion then is not the ...
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