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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... Roman history down to the gloom of universal night , in which the glories of the Roman empire expired , the triumphs and the splendor of eloquence are multiplied and conspicuous . Then it was , that the practice of the art attained a ...
... Roman liberty , and the decline of Roman taste , the reputation and the excellency of the oratorical art fell alike into decay . Under the despotism of the Cæsars , the end of eloquence was perverted from persuasion to panegyric , and ...
... Roman elo- quence , they 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 ...
... the united funds of Grecian ge- nius and of Roman industry , we call rhetoric the science , and oratory the art of speaking well . But to avoid misapprehension , a further ex- planation of 42 [ LECT . GENERAL VIEW OF.
... Roman centurion , has only to say to one man , go , and he goeth , and to another , come , and he com- eth ; persuasion is of no avil . Between au- thority and obedience there can be no delibera- tion ; and wheresoever submission is the ...
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