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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... instruction in the educa- tion of youth . From that era , through the long series of Greek and Roman history down to the gloom of universal night , in which the glories of the Roman empire expired , the triumphs and the splendor of ...
... the eagerness 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 cradle , and continued to the meridian INAUGURAL ORATION . 19.
... instruction for childhood , and of discipline for youth , was bent to its accommodation . Arts , science , let- ters , were to be thoroughly studied and investi- gated upon the maxim , that an orator must be a man of universal knowledge ...
... instruction . The doc- trine seems to be not entirely without foundation , but was by them carried in both its parts to an extravagant excess . The foundations for the oratorical talent , as well as those of the poetical faculty , must ...
... instructions is to arrive at the mastery of the art . For effecting this purpose , the teacher can do little more , than second the ardor and assiduity of the scholar . In the generous thirst for useful knowledge , in the honorable ...
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