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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... and moral qualities of an orator LECT . XVI . Excitation and management of the passions 343 367 LECT . XVII . Disposition . Exordium 391 LECT . XVIII . Narration . 411 AN INAUGURAL ORATION , DELIVERED AT THE AUTHOR'S INSTALLATION , X.
... passion , which he has in com- mon with the lower orders of animated nature ; but as the conveyance of thought ; as the means of rational intercourse with his fellow - creature , and of humble communion with his God . It is by the means ...
... passion . In proportion to the won- ders , she achieved , was the cagerness to acquire the faculties of this mighty magician . Oratory was taught , as the occupation of a life . The course of instruction commenced with the infant in the ...
... clusively in possession of persuasion . To enume- rate all the instruments of persuasion , would be to give a catalogue of all the passions and motives , í which can , without the exercise of force , be $ 6 [ LECT . I. GENERAL VIEW OF.
... passions , you must have recourse to rhetoric . Grammar clothes the shadowy tribes of mind in the plain , substantial attire of a quaker ; rhetoric arrays them in the glories of princely magnifi - V cence . Grammar is sufficient to ...
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