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 observa- tion , are therein exhibited . To relieve and ani- mate the discussions , appertaining to his subject , he thought proper frequently to indulge in figu vii rative expression to a degree , which some may vi.
... proper to consider the art , as well in its nature , as in its ef- fects ; to derive our inferences , not merely from the uses , which have been made of it , but from the purposes , to which it ought to be applied , and the end , which ...
... proper to take a general view of the nature and extent of the field before us . Although , until this time , no specific and peculiar establishment , confined to rhetoric and oratory , has existed , yet the pupils of this seminary have ...
... proper constantly to bear in mind . It is al- ways useful to mark the difference , as well as the relation between the cause and its effect ; and in the progress of our discussion we shall have fre- quent occasion separately and ...
... proper and necessary will it be to separate in our minds the science of rhetoric , or of speaking well , from that of grammar , or the science of speaking correctly . Grammar stands in the same relation to rhetoric , that arithmetic ...
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