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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... rules , directions , and statutes of the Boylston professor- ship of rhetoric and oratory in Harvard college , " which had previously been prepared and adopted by the corporation , were approved by the board of overseers . In June 1805 ...
... rules for a system of private conversation in the domestic intercourse of a family , or in the ordinary associations of business or of friendship . There are doubtless frequent occasions , when the means of oratorical persuasion may be ...
... rules Teach nothing but to name his tools . But happily the doctrine , that ridicule is the test of truth , has never obtained the assent of the rational part of mankind . Wit , like the ancient Parthian , flies while it fights ; or ...
... rules are not the only objects of his precepts . They are not even essential to the science . Figurative and ornamented language indeed is one of the impor- tant properties of oratory , and when the art came to be reduced into a system ...
... rules , resulting from experience ; and that experience can have no foundation , other than previous practice . Now the practice of oratory must in all probabili- ty be coeval with the faculty of speech . sophical inquirers into the ...
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