Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Volumen1Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - 160 páginas 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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... facts and law must be familiarly un- ravelled to a jury ; that is , at the very crisis , when the contest is to be decided by the au- thority of the land fearning and judgment are of no avail to the client or his counsel , without the ...
... fact . them upon the word of Cicero and Quinctilian , that none but a good man can possibly be an ora- tor , they disconcert us by calling for our examples of orators , who have been good men . Let us then tell them , that their ...
... of antiquity . He satirized with so much freedom the gods of paganism , that some learned men in modern times have supposed he was a christian ; though no other evidence of the fact has been ad- 90 ORIGIN OF ORATORY . ' [ LECT . III .
... fact has been ad- duced . The treatise , which has led me to speak of him in this place , is entitled ' Progwv Aidάonaños , the teacher of orators . It is ironical and allegor- ical ; holding out two systems of instruction for forming a ...
... fact can be discerned . In the Grecian annals history and oratory make their first appearance , entering hand in hand upon the scene . But so far are these personages from presenting themselves on the Roman theatre together , that the ...
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