Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Zväzok 1Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - 160 strán (strany) 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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... never been precisely assigned , and their repu- tation , even after death , vibrates upon the hinges of events , with which they have little or no per- ceptible connexion . Such too has been the des tiny of the arts and sciences in ...
... never recovered the graces of her former beauty , nor the energies of her ancient vigor . The immeasurable superiority of ancient over modern oratory is one of the most remarkable cir . cumstances , which offer themselves to the scruti ...
... never been able to exhibit a specimen of deliberative oratory , that can bear a comparison with those , transmitted down to us from antiquity . --- Religion indeed has opened one new avenue to the career of eloquence . Amidst the ...
... never explored by the ancient orators ; and here alone have the modern Europeans cultivated the art with much success . In vain should we enter the halls of justice , in vain should we listen to the debates of senates for strains of ...
... never attempted to make them elo- quent themselves . ( Of the prevailing indifference to this department of human learning no stronger evidence could be offered , than the circumstances , under which we are assembled . Nearly two ...
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