Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Τόμος 1Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - 160 σελίδες 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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... direct hostility to the other two . If rhetoric be a pe- dantic science , consisting of nothing but a tedi- ous and affected enumeration of the figures of speech , or if it be a frivolous science , teaching only the process of beating ...
... direct into the figurative channel . Pursuing this object with more penetration than discernment , they ransacked all their celebrated authors for figures of speech , to give them names ; and often finding in their search some incorrect ...
... direct to the art of oratory , as to that of war . The exercises , to which you are here accustomed , are not intended merely for the display of the tal- ents , you have acquired . They are instruments , put into your hands for future ...
... direct denial of the proposi tion to be refuted , and the connexion between which is imperceptible to the opponent , until he finds it too late to retreat . The son of Sophronis- cus , by the turn of his mind , was devoted to the ...
... direct you , that pursuit of ideal excellence , which constituted the plan of Cicero's orator , and the principle of Cicero's life , if profoundly meditated , and sincerely adopted , prove a never failing source of virtue and of ...
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