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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... operations of the mind , within itself ; rhetoric to the communication of their re- sults to the minds of others . In this view logic is the store house , from which the instruments of rhetoric are to be drawn . Logic is the arsenal ...
... operation can affect the acts of all our corporate bodies ; of towns , cities , counties , states , and of the whole confederated empire . Here then eloquence is recommended by the most elevated usefulness , and encourag- ed by the ...
... operation , which Cicero has called the eloquence of the body . Of the importance given to this exercise , during the splendid era of Roman oratory , you may form an opinion from the unquestionable fact , that it was practised by Cicero ...
... operation , emas- culate the physical , while they stupify the intellec- tual man . The next cause , and inseparably con- nected with it , is the neglect and carelesness of the parents , who were grossly heedless of the edu- cation of ...
... operation upon one another , every fibre must be noticed , not only in its posi- tive existence , but in its relative situation ; as the cooperating parcel of an organized body , no less than as one distinct , entire , and individual ...
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