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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... virtue ; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men , and worthy patriots , dear to God , and famous to all ages . " The corporation lost no time in supplying the vacancy , occasioned by Mr. Adams ' resignation . On the twenty ...
... virtues and vices are so nearly balanced , that their station in the ranks of fame has never been precisely assigned , and their repu- tation , even after death , vibrates upon the hinges of events , with which they have little or no ...
... virtue herself , were estimated by their subserviency to the pur- poses of eloquence , and the whole duty of man consisted in making himself an accomplished pub- lic speaker . With the dissolution of Roman liberty , and the decline of ...
... virtue ; and better known to this people by bless- ings enjoyed , than by favors granted ; a name , in fine , which , if not encircled ' with the external radi- ance of popularity , beams , brightly beams , with the inward lustre of ...
... virtue in their rapid revolutions round this little world of man ? Is it the cold and languid speaker , whose words fall in such slug- gish and drowsy motion from his lips , that they can promote nothing but the slumbers of his audi ...
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