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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... , that the most precious blessings of social life are communicated from man to man , and that sup- plication , thanksgiving , and praise , are addressed A + to the Author of the universe . How justly then 14 INAUGURAL ORATION .
... praise enough for him to have been remembered for twenty centuries , as the antago- nist of Cicero . But the view , in which this last parallel may be turned to advantage by us , is the signal example , which it furnishes , of industry ...
... Praise enough " To fill the ambition of a common man , " That Chatham's language was his mother tongue , " And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own . " But in contemplating a character , like this , we may joy in a more enlarged ...
... praise of finding , but to the glory of creating . Poetical invention disdains the boundaries of space and time . She ranges over worlds of her * PROV , VIII . 12 . own making , and takes little heed of being found LECT . VII . ] 165 OF ...
... praise of brev- ity , and much prologue to introduce nothing , when he comes to assign the cause , it is , " I · have a daughter ; " and then , through a long and minute deduction , infers from his having a daughter the lord Hamlet's ...
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