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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... mark the difference , as well as the relation between the cause and its effect ; and in the progress of our discussion we shall have fre- quent occasion separately and distinctly to exam- ine as well the principles of the rhetorician ...
... mark , that admitting the maxim in its fullest lati- tude , it does not appear to me to be necessarily implied in this definition ; nor can I admit the argument , as decisive for giving it the prefer- ence . The reasons , which I deem ...
... marks the relations between the individuals of the same commu- nity , is diffused over those more complicated and important relations between different com- munities ? Where the independence of the man is corroborated and invigorated by ...
... mark of Rochefoucault , that no man ever exerted his faculties to the full extent , of which they were capable . If there ever was an exception to the universality of this remark , it was Cicero . He presents the most perfect example of ...
... Mark Antony ; that is , for the space of nearly forty years , his stud- ies in the closet , and his practice in all the stages of oratory , were without intermission . Hence arose the numerous treatises upon the art , which at different ...
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